International News

Principal Investigators and students from the Georgia Coastal Ecosystem (GCE) Long Term Ecological Research (LTER) program visited China for two weeks in August 2011 to explore potential collaborat

Kansas State University recently hosted an international symposium entitled “Grasslands in a Global Context" to celebrate two important milestones: 40 years since the establishment of the Konza Prairie Biological Station (KPBS) and 30 years since the Konza Prairie (KNZ) Long-Term Ecological Research (LTER) program was launched.

The 2010 International LTER (ILTER) Coordinating Committee meeting took place from August 30 to September 3 at the Jacob Blaustein Institute for Desert Research in Sede Boqer, Israel.

An International Summer School

The GCOE-INeT international summer school, a field training program focused on "Frontier in Ecosystem Ecology of Northern Forests," was held

In late 2008, Niwot Ridge (NWT) LTER graduate students and scientists attended a workshop in Lausanne Switzerland organized by a research group headed by Antoine Guisan at the University of Lausann

After a very successful workshop in October, a new network is formed to focus on secondary forest regeneration and restoration.

In January 2009, researchers from North and South America gathered in Bariloche, Argentina, to discuss how to establish a program of research and scientific interaction focused on long-term ecologi

A joint US-LTER/Mex-LTER meeting

In January, 2009, the Ecosistemas Costeros de la Peninsula de Yucatan (ECOPEY) Mex-Long Term Ecological Research (LTER) site and both the U

The International Long Term Ecological Research (ILTER) Network was created during the LTER's Annual Scientists Meeting (ASM) in 1993, with the goal of developing a "network of networks" that would

In October 2007, Hugh Ducklow (PI, PAL), Nancy Grimm (PI, CAP) and Scott Collins (PI, SEV) were invited to participate in the 2007 George Bush US-China Relations Conference held this year in Washin