With support from the National Science Foundation (NSF), the four Land-Margin Ecosystem Research Program sites (Chesapeake Bay, Columbia River Estuary, Tomales Bay, and Waquoit Bay) met November 14-17, 1991 at the Marconi Conference Center near the Tomales Bay LMER site. Among the 50-plus participants were representatives from the North Temperate Lakes, Arctic Tundra, North Inlet and Virginia Coast Reserve LTER sites, as well as the LTER Network Office and NSF’s Biotic Systems and Resources and Biological Oceanography Divisions. Other participants included representatives from the National Oceanic & Atmospheric Administration (NOAA), Woods Hole Oceanographic Institute and The Ecosystem Center, Marine Biological Laboratory, and the Academy of Natural Sciences.
Following a plenary lecture by John Hobbie (Woods Hole Marine Biological Laboratory, Arctic Tundra LTER), were presentations on estuarine scaling, classification, denitrification, particle trapping, community metabolism, and coupling biological and physical models. Participants then met in working groups, and gave reports on group topics the following morning before exploring the Tomales Bay area.
The LMER group will meet in at the Marine Biological Laboratory in Woods Hole in fall 1992, and may send representatives to one of the two 1992 LTER Coordinating Committee meetings. A final working group report from the November meeting wifi be prepared and may be obtained from meeting coordinator Stephen Smith, principal investigator of the Tomales Bay LMER.
For more information, contact Stephen V. Smith, Department of Oceanography, School of Ocean and Earth Science and Technology, University of Hawaii, Honolulu, Hawaii 96822, 808-956-8693.