NSF set to host annual LTER Mini-Symposium

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The National Science Foundation (NSF) will once again be the venue of the 2009 LTER Mini-Symposium, the 8th event in the series.

This year's forum will be held on Thursday, Feb. 26, 2009 from 8:30 a.m. to 12:15 p.m. in Room 110 at NSF headquarters, and will focus on ecological connectivity and climate.

Topics will include:

  • Ecological connectivity in a changing world
  • The coastal nexus of environments: where land and sea interact
  • The airshed: connecting air, land, and water
  • Hydrologic connectivity, climate change and nutrient delivery to waters from lakes to the sea
  • Connectivity and species change
  • How dust shapes ecosystems
  • Biofuels and biodiversity: linking landscape change and ecosystem services.

For more information please visit http://www.nsf.gov/news/news_summ.jsp?cntn_id=114119.

For the detailed agenda visit http://www.nsf.gov/events/event_summ.jsp?cntn_id=114134&org=BIO.