ILTER Annual Meeting in Beijing
On September 5 and 6, Beijing, People’s Republic of China will host the 2003 Annual Meeting of International Long Term Ecological Research Network. The meeting is tentatively titled: Long Term Ecological Research: Theories, Technologies and their Applications in Ecosystem Management, and is co-sponsored with the Chinese Academy of Sciences. ILTER Business Meetings and a regional Asian LTER Network meeting will follow on 7 September. Field trips to the Loess Plateau at Yangling in Northern China, the Tibetan Plateau in Qing-Zang, or Subtropical Evergreen Forest in Southern China will commence on 8 September.
All-Scientist's Meeting in Seattle
The NET office, in association with the meeting of the Estuarine Research Federation, has begun to organize the 2003 ASM meeting for September 18 - 21 in Seattle, Washington, USA. The ERF’s meeting begins on September 14 and will wind up with a joint ERF/LTER session on the afternoon of Thursday, September 18. There will be a joint mixer for the two groups on Thursday evening. Please access information about the ASM at the ASM Website: http://www.lternet.edu/asm/2003/
Please direct questions regarding International LTER issues to Alan Schroeder in the U.S. LTER Network Office: aschroeder@lternet.edu