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Last November representatives from 24 major ecosystem programs met to analyze the potential contribution of an intensive site network to research global change.

During the week of June 11, 1989, scientific personnel from the H.J. Andrews LTER, Central Plains LTER, the Network Office, and the U.S.

Sevilleta

Following the April Coordinating Committee meeting in Albuquerque site representatives set out for the Sevilleta Wildlife Refuge. 75 km south.

The 1989 field season at the Kellogg Biological Station’s LTER site in agricultural ecology has seen the first full set of main experimental plots installed, the start of baseline sampling activiti

The USDA Forest Service established the Hubbard Brook Experimental Forest (HBR) as a research laboratory in 1955.

In July, the Central Plains Experimental Range celebrated its 50th anniversary with a weekend of field programs for both professional ecologists and the general public.

Nancy Munn (Ph.D. student under Judy Meyer’s direction at the University of Georgia) received the first E. Lucy Brown award for the best student poster presented at the 1988 ESA meeting.

We often think of a desert as being an exposed ecosystem with a highly variable, severe environment where variation in precipitation is critical.

The El Niño-Southern Oscillation (ENSO) phenomenon influences precipitation and climate in many parts of the globe.

The past year has been exciting for the Virginia Coast Reserve Long-Term Ecological Research Program at the University of Virginia.