The Niwot LTER group reports, sadly, that Rick Ingersoll left the Niwot Ridge/Green Lakes Valley LTER program this summer to join his spouse in Ann Arbor, Michigan. While we will miss Rick, he leaves LTER with an impressive record of accomplishment.
During his tenure as Information Manager at Niwot, Rick authored or co-authored a number of network reports, including “The Management of Electronically Collected Data within the LTER Program” and “Proceedings of the 1994 LTER Data Management Workshop,” and completed a valuable survey of LTER site online datasets (see table, next page). He also was responsible for single-handedly creating the Niwot Ridge information system. His prowess at this activity is best summarized in the report of the 1995 National Science Foundation-sponsored external site review:
“The review team was sufficiently impressed with the information management efforts at the site that we feel that the group could play a useful role in the development of information networks at the national and international scale outside the LTER Network” (NSF, 6/28/95).
Rick began as a field/laboratory technician at Niwot in November 1988, becoming information manager in January 1990. He is presently working on a manuscript describing the Niwot Ridge LTER information management system, and will still be available online at ricki@culter.co/orado.edu for consultation with LTER colleagues.