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Call for proposals for LTER Working Groups

The LTER Executive Board announces a call for LTER workshop proposals to advance the Decadal Plan research agenda. The Network has $165,000 available for planning and synthesis activities; priority will be given to proposals with clearly defined products, which might include specific research proposals or synthesis papers, and the likelihood of completion within 6-9 months. Funded projects will be network-level, ISSE-related, and inclusive with respect to the participation of multiple sites. Copies of the Decadal Plan are available at www.lternet.edu/decadalplan.
 

OBFS data to be queried via ORNL DAAC’s search system

The Oak Ridge National Laboratory Distributed Active Archive Center (ORNL DAAC) has announced that data from the Organization of Biological Field Stations (OBFS), along with Long Term Ecological Research (LTER) data, can now be queried from the DAAC’s Mercury Search System. OBFS is an association of more than 200 field stations, primarily in North America, concerned with field facilities for biological research and education. Over 120 OBFS data products can be queried from the ORNL DAAC’s search system; new OBFS data sets added to the OBFS collection will be automatically added to DAAC’s search system.
 

LNO renewal proposal under development

The LTER Network Office (LNO) provides a variety of services to the LTER Network under a six-year Cooperative Agreement with the National Science Foundation (NSF). These services include supporting and facilitating LTER meetings, including the All Scientists Meetings, helping sites implement metadata standards, providing leadership in the development of the LTER Network Information System, acquiring and maintaining an archive of remotely-sensed images for LTER sites, and disseminating information about LTER activities and achievements. A new Cooperative Agreement is scheduled to begin in March, 2009, and the staff of the LNO is busy preparing a proposal that will be submitted to NSF next spring.
 

Web blogs catching on in LTER

A Web log or “blog” is a journal posted on the Internet. As many as 77 million blogs worldwide chronicle personal reflections on political, technical, or creative endeavors, inviting readers to post feedback and create a discussion. Some blogs are quite popular and a few, influential.
 

LNO Cyberinfrastructure project gets NSF funding

Deana Pennington, research faculty at the LTER Network Office, has received a $1 million grant from the National Science Foundation to continue her work on enabling science communities to incorporate advanced technologies into their research (see related story in “Unique LNO virtual training launches in cyberspace,” Network News Vol. 20, No1, or online at www.lternet.edu/news/Article151.html).
 

Report: Integrating Social Science into NSF Environmental Observatories

The final report on “Rising to the Challenge: Integrating Social Science into NSF Environmental Observatories,” co-authored by Shalini Vajjhala, Alan Krupnick, and Eleanor McCormick, has been released. A copy of the report can be downloaded from the workshop website at www.rff.org/rff/News/Features/NSF_Report.cfm.
 

Cedar Creek study fuels excitement in bioenergy

The Cedar Creek (CDR) LTER work on the use of low-input, high-diversity prairie restoration as a way to produce biofuels and provide a variety of environmental benefits has created a great deal of buzz and attention for the LTER site, but is also keeping the busy scientists at the site literally on their toes.
 

Santa Barbara’s Stu Levenbach receives John A. Knauss Marine Policy Fellowship

January 2007 — California Sea Grant announced that Stu Levenbach, an SBC graduate student, is one of two new Knauss Fellows, who will join 42 other Knauss winners from other states for a yearlong mentoring program in federal marine policy in Washington, D.C.
 

Shortgrass Steppe LTER scientist named fellow of the American Geophysical Union

FORT COLLINS — William Parton, a senior scientist with Colorado State University’s (CSU) Natural Resource Ecology Laboratory and co-Principal Investigator of the Shortgrass Steppe (SGS) Long-Term Ecological Research site, who has spent the past 35 years working on the development of ecosystems models, was early this year elected Fellow of the American Geophysical Union (AGU). Parton’s ecosystem computer models, Daycent and CENTURY, developed through his research at SGS, are used extensively around the world to determine the potential impact of future climatic changes on ecosystems at the local, regional and global scale. Additionally, these models are designed to evaluate the impact of land use changes on ecosystems.
 

Mark Losleben retires from NWT

 

Vande Castle appointed Executive Director of CREATE

 

Harvard Forest Schoolyard science project featured in Boston Globe

 

BES research helps city of Baltimore to set ‘green’ goals

 

HFR Schoolyard teachers present at Environmental Education Conference

 

BES teacher shares earthworm research with Maryland colleagues

 

NSF FY05 Funding for LTER

 

SGS Scientist Elected AAAS Fellow

 

Harvard Forest Site Featured in U.S. Stamp

 

Comings & Goings - Fall 2005

 

Comings & Goings - Spring 2005

 
 
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