May 1994 Special Competition
A 1993 ten-year review of the U. S. LTER Program recommended overall expansion to address more effectively today long-term ecological scientific questions, develop an integrated program chat will provide the basis for defensible environmental decisions and policies, and implement sustainable resource management practices. The National Science Foundation has begun to implement these recommendations through special compecstzons to augment site research, encourage cross-site comparisons and syntheses, and expand the range of scientific disciplines to include the physical and social sciences. Listed in the table below are projects funded as a result of a May 1994 special competition. Project abstracts are available at LTERnet.edu via Gopher, Mosaic or Netscape software under “Intersite Research and Synthesis, “and some participating sites have posted full proposals on their individual servers.
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INVESTIGATORS |
PROJECT |
AWARDS |
DURATION |
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John D. Aber Harvard Forest LTER and Irish sites |
Human Modification of Landscape Function in New England and Ireland. Land Use Legacies and Atmosphere Deposition |
$187,500 |
36 months |
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David C.Coleman D.A. Crossley Bruce L. Haines Coweeta, Luquillo LTERs |
Biodiversity and Decomposition in Mesic Forests: An Across-Site Experimental Study of Biodiversity and Patterns and Processes |
$199,976 |
36 months |
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Anne E. Giblin Hubbard Brook No. Temperate Lakes & Arctic Tundra LTERs |
Investigating Controls on the Benthic Flux of Nitrogen |
$200,000 |
36 months |
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David E. Greenland H.J. Andrews, Niwot Ridge |
A Climatic Analysis of Long-Term Ecological Research Sites |
$109,353 |
18 months |
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Mark E. Harmon Olga N. Krankina Arthur McKee |
Comparison of Long-Term Carbon Dynamics of Two Conifer Ecosystems |
$145,364 |
24 months |
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William K. Lauenroth Ingrid C. Burke Central Plains LTER and |
Constraints on Production and Decomposition in Temperate Semiarid Grasslands |
$199,818 |
36 months |
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John J. Magnuson Jonathan A. Foley Michael S. Adams Carl J. Bowser, Stith T. Gower North Temperate Lakes and North Highland Lake Distr. |
Cross-Site Comparisons, Syntheses and Internationalization: LTER-NTL Site |
$199,460 |
36 months |
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Dennis S. Ojima Arvin R. Mosier LTER & Other sites |
Trace Gas Cross-Site Comparison: A TRAGNET Project |
$200,000 |
36 months |
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W. Ed. Whitelaw Paul N. Courant Six LTER sites |
Forested Ecosystems and Regional Economies: Describing, Explaining and Communicating the Relationships |
$200,000 |
36 months |
National Science Foundation