Testing metadata, reproducing results, and training students for synthesis science

In February, 2011, Victoria C. Stodden (Columbia University) organized a symposium at the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) Conference that addressed Reproducibility and Interdisciplinary Knowledge Transfer (see http://aaas.confex.com/aaas/2011/webprogram/Session3166.html). That symposium dealt primarily with computational results, but her contention that the difficulty verifying published research results might be “leading to a credibility crisis affecting many scientific fields” sparked a debate on whether ecology data archives could be used to verify research results, and if so, what methods would be most effective for accomplishing this.

The USDA Forest Service has recently published a fully revised and enlarged edition of Robert G. Bailey’s ecoregions map of the United States.

James Gosz and Joann Roskoski.

Collaboration Opportunity

National Invasive Species Database

Land managers consider invasive species one of their greatest challenges.

Since its inception, the LTER Network has been a leader in creating and managing ecological metadata and is on the thr

EAPR-ILTER Information Management Workshop

Peter McCartney (CAP) and Kristin Vanderbilt (SEV) traveled to Ulaanbaatar, Mongolia in July 2001 to teach a three-day Information Management Wor

The new NASA satellite called “Terra” was launched successfully in December 1999 with MODIS and four other sensors on board.

DataBits, the LTER Data Manager newsletter, has been revived.

The LTER Network Office and the National Partnership for Advanced Computational Infrastructure (NPACI) have developed a mechanism to support short-term fellowships for Information Managers from LTER S

The NBII home page (http://www.nbii.gov) is the point of access to a growing list of guides, directories, and inventories of biological data and information aimed at agencies, scientists, educators