LTER Coordinating Committee Chair James Gosz is assembling a team of scientists and data managers to travel to Eastern Europe in June 1995 for interactions with a group of scientists from Poland and the Czech and Slovak republics. The two groups will explore potential interactions between long-term ecological research sites in Eastern Europe and the United States. The U.S. team, supported by an NSF International Programs supplement to the LTER Network Office, will include plant, animal, microbial, and information management specialists from a number of LTER sites.
The week-long trip is tentatively planned for June 10-20, 1995. Following travel to Prague for a general introduction to the sites and science that has been performed in the region, LTER participants will travel by bus to several sites in the Krkonose/Karkonosze Bilateral, Krivoklat, and Trebon Basin reserves. These sites span a range of habitats, from managed ponds and wetlands to deciduous and conifer forests to subalpine and alpine. Many have been studied for long periods, up to 200 years. The proposed exchange provides an opportunity to develop an international collaboration with a very important region in Europe.
