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| Posted on Wednesday, March 03, 2010 - 05:38 PM |
| Scientists from the Long Term Ecological Research (LTER) Network will present a mini-symposium on 'Ecosystem Services in a Changing World' on Thursday March 4, 2010 at the National Science Foundation (NSF) in Arlington, VA. |
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| Posted on Thursday, February 18, 2010 - 03:05 PM |
| Understanding the interface between social and ecological systems is crucial for effectively addressing pressing environmental challenges. According to Phil Robertson, Chair of the National Science Foundation’s Long-term Ecological Research (LTER) Network and professor of ecosystem science at Michigan State University, “solutions to problems that range from climate change to over-exploitation of environmental resources to nitrogen pollution require more than knowledge about the biophysical environment or knowledge about how humans react to such problems. Crucially, knowledge is needed about the interface – how the biophysical and social domains interact.” |
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| Posted on Thursday, January 07, 2010 - 12:34 PM |
An International Summer School
The GCOE-INeT international summer school, a field training program focused on “Frontier in Ecosystem Ecology of Northern Forests,” was held June 14-20, 2009 in the Hokkaido University’s experimental forests. The experimental forests are part of the Japan Long-Term Ecological Research Network (JaLTER) and GCOE-INeT is one of Hokkaido University’s educational programs funded by the Japan Society for the Promotion of Science, and the Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology (see www.ees.hokudai.ac.jp/gcoe/en/index.html for further information on the GCOE). Nineteen Ph.D students from eight countries (Australia, Bangladesh, China, India, Japan, Malaysia, the Philippines and UK) participated in the program.
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| Posted on Thursday, January 07, 2010 - 12:34 PM |
| In late 2008, Niwot Ridge (NWT) LTER graduate students and scientists attended a workshop in Lausanne Switzerland organized by a research group headed by Antoine Guisan at the University of Lausanne. Funded by the International Program of the National Science Foundation (NSF), the objectives of the workshop were threefold: 1) to combine European and American expertise to evaluate the threat of climate change to plant diversity at high-elevations (alpine and subalpine ecosystems); 2) to train American graduate students in the use of state-of-the-art species distribution models; and 3) to establish better collaboration between European and American scientists working in high-elevation ecosystems. |
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| Posted on Thursday, January 07, 2010 - 12:34 PM |
| The EcoTrends project has been busy for the past several months reaching out to the scientific, technical, and education communities, supporting new science initiatives, and completing the products envisioned at the outset of the project. |
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| Posted on Thursday, January 07, 2010 - 12:33 PM |
| The Information Management Committee (IMC) conducted its annual meeting on September 13, 2009, during the Annual Scientists Meeting at Estes Park, CO. The committee chair’s position rotates every three years, and so the current co-chairs Corinna Gries (CAP) and Nicole Kaplan (SGS) handed leadership to Margaret O’Brien (SBC) and Don Henshaw (AND), whose terms will expire in 2012. |
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| Posted on Thursday, January 07, 2010 - 12:33 PM |
| One of the highlights of the All Scientists Meeting was Bill Clark’s plenary talk entitled “Integrating Science and Society.” Clark emphasized the great urgency, but also the tremendous opportunity that we now have to bring science into the arenas of political and social action, which can lead to both attention and action on global environmental problems. |
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| Posted on Thursday, January 07, 2010 - 12:32 PM |
A report of an ASM working group, September 2009
Of all the ecosystem services, a sustainable supply of high-quality water may be the most important. Streamflow from forests provides two-thirds of the water supply in the United States. Nationwide, high quality water supplies depend entirely on a range of natural ecosystem types. Climate change, drought, outbreaks of insects and pathogens, wildfire, and ecological succession are altering ecosystems’ ability to provide abundant, clean water from the headwaters of our water-supply systems.
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| Posted on Thursday, January 07, 2010 - 12:32 PM |
| Once a computer is connected to the internet, it becomes vulnerable to attacks from a variety of sources, including hackers, botnets, phishing, viruses, Trojan horses, etc. Attacks on computers are variously motiviated. Some want to steal CPU cycles like in a botnet; others want to steal the information in the computer; while some wish to take over the computer completely and release it only if you pay money to the attackers. These activities are not the product of pizza-laden, twinkie suckers in dark bedrooms--in most cases they are the result of organized criminal activities. |
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| Posted on Thursday, January 07, 2010 - 12:32 PM |
Sixteen 5th graders from Cottonwood Valley Charter School (CVCS) in Socorro, NM and their teacher, Karen Gram, embarked on an adventure at the Sevilleta Bosque Ecosystem Monitoring Program (BEMP) site on Monday, October 19, 2009.
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