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"Embarking on a Decade of Synthesis": Announcing the 4th LTER All Scientists Meeting 18-21 September 2003 Seattle Washington

Published:
Nov 22, 2003
Issue: 
Network News Spring 2003, Vol. 16 No. 1

Hundreds of scientists from dozens of disciplines will gather in Seattle 18-21 September 2003 for “Embarking on a Decade of Synthesis,” the 4th LTER All Scientists Meeting.

Approaching the Social Dimensions of Ecological Research

Published:
Nov 19, 2003
Issue: 
Network News Fall 2003, Vol. 16 No. 2

The Coweeta LTER – Hydrosystèmes Pyrénéens SA Collaboration

Ecoinformatics Training For Ecologists (e.g., Information Technologies for Ecology) January 4-9, 2004

Published:
Nov 19, 2003
Issue: 
Network News Fall 2003, Vol. 16 No. 2

The Long Term Ecological Research Network Office at the University of New Mexico, in collaboration with the San Diego Supercomputer Center at UCSD, the Natural History Museum and Biodiversity Resea

Science Environment for Ecological Knowledge

Published:
Nov 16, 2003
Issue: 
Network News Fall 2003, Vol. 16 No. 2

This is an excerpt from an article by SDSC science writer Paul Tooby that originally appeared in the NPACI publication “Envision” April-June 2003 (http://www.npaci.edu/envision/v19.2/seek.html)

USGS Data Harvesting Service for HydroDB

Published:
Nov 16, 2003
Issue: 
Network News Fall 2003, Vol. 16 No. 2

In January 2002, Wade Sheldon (GCE LTER) developed an automated system for harvesting streamflow data from any real-time USGS gauging station and processing it for submission to HydroDB, the LTER A

Enhancing the Environment for Ecological Synthesis

Published:
Nov 16, 2003
Issue: 
Network News Fall 2003, Vol. 16 No. 2

Introducing the Climate and Hydrology Web Harvester System

The LTER Network faces significant challenges in strengthening existing cross-site integrative research.  Climatic and hydro

Nine LTER Sites Experience Mid-term Reviews

Published:
Nov 16, 2003
Issue: 
Network News Fall 2003, Vol. 16 No. 2

Nine LTER Sites had their mid-term reviews this year, including Cedar Creek, Florida, Georgia Coastal, Harvard Forest, Jornada, Santa Barbara, Sevilleta and Virginia Coast.

LTER Investigators Honored with Ecological Society of America Awards

Published:
Nov 16, 2003
Issue: 
Network News Fall 2003, Vol. 16 No. 2

The William Skinner Cooper Award honors an outstanding contributor to the fields of geobotany, physiographic ecology, plant succession, or the distribution of plants along environmental gradients—t

LTER sampling reveals unusual winter lake-ice conditions

Published:
Apr 22, 2003
Issue: 
Network News Spring 2003, Vol. 16 No. 1

Residents of Madison, Wisconsin expect their lakes to have thick hard ice for ice fishing, skating, and ice boating during mid-winter.

The Value of LTER Site Augmentation

Published:
Apr 22, 2003
Issue: 
Network News Spring 2003, Vol. 16 No. 1

In 1996, National Science Foundation began an experiment that involved augmenting two LTER sites at a funding level double to the Network standard.