Left to right, Scott Collins (Chair, LTER Science Council), Xavier Morise (Director, CNRS office in Washington), Françoise Gaill (Ecology and Environment Institute, CNRS), Frédéric Doré (Minister Counselor, French Embassy) and Yvan Lagadeuc (Zones Ateliers, University of Rennes II, France) after the signing of a Memorandum of Understanding committing the U.S. LTER Network and the Zone Ateliers Network of France to share knowledge and skills through collaboration between sites and scientists.