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Working Group Proposals

The following a proposals for working groups that have been submitted are pending approval.
Title Organizer Format Submitted Edit Session
LTER Grad Student Workshop: Can we find anomalies in precipitation using long-term data from multiple sites? -

The effects of anthropogenic-associated activities on the global climate system over the past two centuries have become undeniable, and supported by a vast body of scientific literature (IPCC,...

James Aaron Hogan Product oriented 08/07/15 Working Group Session 7 - Thursday
Data package construction for Landsat imagery -

In a working group session Tuesday, participants were introduced to a collection of long-term (1984-2011) Landsat imagery currently being assembled for every LTER site to be housed in the LTER NIS...

Margaret O'Brien Ancillary meetings 09/11/12 Ad-hoc Working Group Session 5 - Wednesday (Lunch)
Urban Infrastructure Evolution -

Examining transitions from septic to sewer systems across and within urban ecosystems.

 Rebecca Hale Product oriented 09/10/12 Ad-hoc Working Group Session 8 - Thursday (Lunch)
Urban Infrastructure Evolution -

Examining transitions from septic to sewer systems across and within urban ecosystems.

 Rebecca Hale Product oriented 09/10/12 Working Group Session 7 - Thursday
Ad-Hoc Student Perspectives on Urban Theory -

Continuation of Grad Student Symposium working group on student perspectives on urban ecological theory--additional meeting to develop a working group proposal and outline a plan for a manuscript

Anna Johnson Product oriented 09/10/12 Working Group Session 3 Tuesday
Connections between BCO-DMO and LTER -

There are 5 OCE-funded coastal and marine LTER sites: SBC, MCR, GCE, PIE and CCE, who contribute data to the LTER repository.

 Margaret O'Brien Ancillary meetings 09/09/12 Ad-hoc Working Group Session 2 (Dinner)
Documenting and executing workflows and algorithms: towards model repositories in ecology -

  

 Francisco Bonet Brain storming 09/05/12 Ad-hoc Working Group Session 3 - Tuesday (Lunch)
LTER GIS Working Group Ad-Hoc Meeting -

Join the LTER GIS Working Group for lunch to discuss plans for the next year, and share ideas.  We're a fun group of people who are interested in all things spatial, and are somewhat techno-...

Theresa Valentine Ancillary meetings 09/04/12 Ad-hoc Working Group Session 8 - Thursday (Lunch)
Planning for Network-level synthesis (closed session, by invitation only) -

This will be a be a closed session ad-hoc meeting where we'll brain storm cross-site and network-level synthesis questions.

 Debra Peters Ancillary meetings 09/04/12 Ad-hoc Working Group Session 6 - Wednesday
Arctic LTER: Food Web Synthesis -

ARC LTER researchers will meet to continue work on a synthesis of food webs across aquatic and terrestrial environments.

 Laura Gough Ancillary meetings 08/31/12 Ancillary Working Group Session 3 - Tuesday
Community Convergence or Divergence in Resource Manipulation Experiments -

 

 Kimberly La Pierre Brain storming 08/27/12 Ad-hoc Working Group Session 1 - (Monday Lunch)
LTER and STREON synergies and opportunities: Next generation questions in stream ecological research -

STREON (STReam Experimental and Observatory Network) is an experiment within NEON unprecedented in scope, which will address compelling questions related to basic stream ecological structure and...

Amy Rosemond Information exchange 08/24/12 Working Group Session 3 Tuesday
Ecological Homogenization of Urban America -

Meeting of investigators involved in an NSF Macrosystems Biology Program funded project.  We need to meet on Tuesday, September 11 from 4 - 6 and are requesting a room for this meeting.

 Peter Groffman Ancillary meetings 08/23/12 Ancillary Working Group Session 3 - Tuesday
NSF LTER Minisymposium Planning Committee Meeting -

This is a lunch-time meeting for the NSF Minisymposium Planning Committee.  The committee consists of Dan Childers, Evelyn Gaiser, John Vande Castle, Jeb Barrett, and Kristin Vanderbilt....

Kristin Vanderbilt Ancillary meetings 08/20/12 Ad-hoc Working Group Session 8 - Thursday (Lunch)
LTER site communication point persons meeting -

This lunchtime meeting will bring together all of the communication point persons from the LTER sites to share ideas, network, and brainstorm about science communication within the Network.

 Marcia Nation Information exchange 08/16/12 Ad-hoc Working Group Session 1 - (Monday Lunch)
Mass Loss: A Quantitative Synthesis of Leaf Decomposition in Streams and Rivers -

 

 Jennifer Follstad... Product oriented 08/15/12 Ad-hoc Working Group Session 5 - Wednesday (Lunch)
Mass Loss: A Quantitative Synthesis of Leaf Decomposition in Streams and Rivers -

 

 Jennifer Follstad... Product oriented 08/15/12 Ad-hoc Working Group Session 6 - Wednesday
Spatial Data and Analysis Working Group Meeting -

Lunch time meeting of the LTER Spatial Data and Analysis Working Group.  We will be reviewing progress to date, and set out work plan for future activites.

 Theresa Valentine Ancillary meetings 08/14/12 Ad-hoc Working Group Session 3 - Tuesday (Lunch)
LTER Executive Board Meeting (Invitation only) -

This is a meeting of the LTER Executive Board.  It is a closed meeting, for EB members or by invitation

 Scott Collins Ancillary meetings 08/14/12 Ancillary Working Group Session 2 - Sunday
Broadening Participation of Diverse Students in LTER Science -

This session will be an informal conversation about ideas to broaden participation of underrepresented minority students in LTER science.

 Teresa Mourad Brain storming 08/14/12 Ad-hoc Working Group Session 1 - (Monday Lunch)
Anthropological Sciences, Ecology, and Environment -

Ecological and environmental research within anthropology includes a wide range of theoretical and methodological approaches of relevance to long-term ecological research.

 Michael Paolisso Information exchange 08/02/12 Working Group Session 4 Tuesday
Anthropological Sciences, Ecology, and Environment -

Ecological and environmental research within anthropology includes a wide range of theoretical and methodological approaches of relevance to long-term ecological research.

 Michael Paolisso Information exchange 08/02/12 Working Group Session 5 - Wednesday
Belowground Biogeochemical Processes Across the LTER Network -

Belowground plant and microbial processes exert major control over the Earth’s biogeochemical cycles and climate.  While fundamentally important they are treated in a rudimentary manner at...

Adrien Finzi Product oriented 08/02/12 Working Group Session 5 - Wednesday
StreamChem DB and cross site synthesis -

Cross-site studies are a useful for understanding ecosystem processes and placing findings into a broader context.

 Alba Argerich Information exchange 08/01/12 Working Group Session 6 - Thursday
Impacts of land-use change on carbon and nitrogen cycling: a cross-site opportunity -

Increasing human demands for food, energy, and space has resulted in the conversion of forest and grasslands to intensively used lands.

 Leilei Ruan Brain storming 08/01/12 Working Group Session 3 Tuesday
 
 
Background Photo by: Nicole Hansen - Jornada (JRN) LTER