September 25-30, 1990
YMCA of the Rockies
Estes Park, Colorado
Interest in the upcoming LTER All Scientists Meeting is still growing. At the close of registration in mid-August, over 275 attendees had confirmed and queries are continuing to come in to the LTER Network Office.
A large turnout is expected from each of the LTER sites, and attendance from ecologists outside the Network will be higher than at any LTER-sponsored event held thus far. Attending the meeting will be ecologists from the National Science Foundation Land- Margin Ecosystem Research (LMER) sites, the U.S. Department of Energy Parknet sites, the Environmental Protection Agency, the U.S. Geological Survey, the U.S. Forest Service, the National Science Foundation, and the National Academy of Sciences, as well as representatives from the Chinese Ecological Research Network (CERN) and the USSR Academy of Sciences.
The event begins with dinner and a slide presentation on Rocky Mountain National Park, followed by daily plenary sessions, work sessions and both formalized and ad-hoc workshops. Two optional field trips to the Mountain Research Station and the Niwot Ridge LTER site on travel-in and travel-out days (September 25 and September 30) have also been scheduled.
Major research topics were developed at the spring 1990 LTER Coordinating Committee meeting at the Luquillo LTER site in Puerto Rico to accommodate the varied interests and research activities across the Network. The work sessions and workshops (see box, this page) are organized according to four topics:
- “LTER in the ‘90s”
- “Global Change”
- “Biodiversity”
- “Regionalization”
The first day, in addition to the plenary speakers scheduled, there will be a large, extended poster session with many posters on current research from both within and without the LTER Network. During this informal period, participants can discuss research and plan future collaborations. For the rest of the meeting, the workshops will be held after short morning plenary talks. There will also be ample free time in the afternoon and evening for ad-hoc workshops, discussions and meetings.
For more information contact John Vande Castle, Coordinator, LTER Network Office, University of Washington, College of Forest Resources, AR-i 0, Seattle, WA 98195, 206-543-4853, or via electronic mail at: “jvc@lternet” or “jvc@lternet.washington.edu”.
Plenary Speakers (partial list):
Caroline Bledsoe, BSR, NSF
Scientific Networking
Mary Clutter, BBS, NSF
Politics of Ecology
Jerry Franklin, Chair, LTER Network
LTER Past Present and Future
Beryl Leach, National Academy of Sciences
Long-Term Ecological Research in China
Paul Risser, Sevilleta LTER
International Network and Global Ecology
Patricia Werner, BSR, NSF
Biodiversity and Ecosystem Function
Workshops and Work Sessions
- GIS Research and Modeling
- Soil Warming Experiments
- Atmospheric Chemistry
- Trace Gas Exchanges
- Paleoecology
- Decomposition
- Data Sharing in LTER
- Climate Committee
- GIS Working Group
- Modeling Working Groups
- Linkages to Other Networks
- Consumer Controls
- Biological Legacies in Ecosystems
- Invasions
- Megalandscape Experiments
- Catastrophic Events
- Dual Tracer and Root Turnover
- The Larger Ecological Community
- Systematics in the LTER Program
- Data Managers Committee
- Plant Morpohology in Plant
- Community Development
- Remote Sensing NDVI
- Landscape Processes
- Scaling
- Stream Processes
- Cross-site Analyses of Models
- Communications Networks
- Global Positioning Satellites