Central Plains Experimental Range
Symposium
The Central Plains Experimental Range (CPR) LTER site co-sponsored a one-day symposium with the USDA-Agricultural Research Service (ARS) for everyone conducting research at the site. The symposium, held January 11, 1994 at Fort Collins, CO, was attende1 by 67 senior scientists, graduate students, and technicians. Keynote addresses were provided by Dr. Bud Rumberg, Executive Vice President, Society for Range Management, and Dr. Rod Heitschmidt, ARS Research Leader, Miles City, Montana. Poster presentations by attendees, followed by small group discussions and a social, made for a successful meeting. Plans to make this an annual symposium are underway.
Visiting Scholar from India
Dr. Jai S. Singh is spending six months at the Central Plains LTER site with support from the 1993 LTER Supplement. Dr. Singh is Professor and Head of the Department of Botany, Bananas Hindu University at Varanasi, India, and Fellow of the Indian National Science Academy. His primary research interests include primary productivity and nutrient cycling in grassland and forest ecosystems, rehabilitation of coal mine spoils, and flux of biogenic gases from dry tropical soils. While in the United States, he is working with W.K. Laisenroth and D.G. Milchunas in the analysis of long-term dynamics of soil water at the CPR and biodiversity of grasslands with particular reference to shortgrass steppe.