Thanks to generous support and encouragement from the International Division of NSF, several workshops and exchanges of scientists and students will be held in the near future between US LTER sites and counterparts in Japan, Taiwan and Korea. Look for reports on some of these in future issues of the Network News.
The Network Office is coordinating a visit to Japanese research sites by a group of eight US graduate students and two faculty members from seven different LTER sites. The group will participate in a bilateral LTER workshop in mid June at Tomakomai Experimental Forest in Hokkaido, as well as visiting research institutions near Kyoto and Lake Biwa. In August, five Japanese graduate students and two professors will come to the US for visits to several LTER sites in the central and eastern US: one limnologist will visit NTL, while those working in forest systems will visit HBR, HFR and CWT. Prior to this visit, most of the group will attend the ESA meeting in Spokane.
As mentioned in the item on regional meetings in this issue, a group of nine US scientists and two graduate students associated with US LTER sites are expecting to visit Korea in October for a bilateral workshop to explore opportunities for mutually beneficial collaboration with Korean partners. Plans include site visits to Korean LTER sites.
The H J Andrews LTER site has received funding from the International Division of NSF for a series of exchange visits with Taiwanese counterparts. The first activity will be to host a group coming to Oregon State University and Andrews Forest prior to attending the ESA meeting in August. The group of about eighteen scientists and students are primarily from Taiwan but will include several from Japan and Korea as well. Then over the coming year or two, there will be several visits to Taiwan by scientists and students from OSU and the Andrews LTER site.
