2009 LTER All Scientists Meeting - Information Management

Niwot Ridge LTER Program: Alpine Ecosystems as Early Warning Systems

Mark Williams — Tue, 01 Sep 2009 17:42:43 +0000

Poster Number:

377

Presenter/Primary Author:

Mark Williams

Co-Authors:

Tim Seastedt

Co-Authors:

Diane McKnight

Co-Authors:

Alan Townsend

Co-Authors:

Bill Bowman

Co-Authors:

Steve Schmidt

Co-Authors:

Peter Blanken

The Niwot Ridge (NWT) LTER site was one of the five original LTER sites established in 1980. The LTER program is based at the University of Colorado-Boulder and is administered through the Institute of Arctic and Alpine Research (INSTAAR) and in cooperation with the Mountain Research Station, with special use permits from the US Forest Service.

Live from the field: Capturing images and data from a barrier island via wireless networking

John Porter — Tue, 01 Sep 2009 11:52:58 +0000

Poster Number:

372

Presenter/Primary Author:

John Porter

Co-Authors:

David E. Smith

Co-Authors:

Thomas Williams

Wireless networks provide new opportunities for retrieving data from the field - and to support new types of data. At the Virginia Coast Reserve Long-Term Ecological Research Project we have employed wireless networks to connect to three barrier islands, with some connections spanning over 20 km. The wireless network is used to integrate a variety of data sources. A network of ten wells, meteorological and tide stations produce data that is automatically processed to create a dataset or graph on the World-Wide Web.

SPAN: A Sensor Processing and Acquisition Network

Sridhar Gullapalli — Mon, 31 Aug 2009 19:15:00 +0000

Poster Number:

338

Presenter/Primary Author:

Sridhar Gullapalli

Co-Authors:

Fabio Silva

Co-Authors:

Terry Benzel

In recent years, advances in sensor network technology have shown great potential to revolutionize environmental data collection. Still, these systems have remained the purview of the engineers and computer scientists who design them, rather than useful tools for the field scientists who need them. Today, there are many data logging options for basic data collection in the field, but scientists are still required to travel to their sites to collect data, and to manually import data into spreadsheets.

VOSS: Delegating Organizational Work to Virtual Organization Technologies

R. Stuart Geiger — Mon, 31 Aug 2009 19:06:00 +0000

Poster Number:

337

Presenter/Primary Author:

R. Stuart Geiger

Co-Authors:

David Ribes

Co-Authors:

Steve Jackson

Co-Authors:

Matt Burton

Co-Authors:

Tom Finholt

This project is currently undertaking a comparative study of the formation and maintenance of Virtual Organizations (VOs) in two leading collaborative science networks: the Long Term Ecological Research Network (LTER) and the Open Science Grid (OSG). Both LTER and OSG are mature enterprises for supporting multidisciplinary scientific research; however, they differ in the nature of their VO tool use.

A Collaborative Database of LTER Projects at Sites

Margaret O'Brien — Mon, 31 Aug 2009 18:48:52 +0000

Poster Number:

334

Presenter/Primary Author:

Margaret O'Brien

Co-Authors:

cgries

Co-Authors:

sbohm

Co-Authors:

jbrunt

Co-Authors:

jcampbell

Co-Authors:

jdowning

Co-Authors:

jporter

Co-Authors:

sremillard

Co-Authors:

wsheldon

Co-Authors:

kvanderbilt

Co-Authors:

jwalsh

Experiments or projects are central to all research endeavors, and LTER sites encompass many. Research projects are commonly documented at the site-level using various methods in order to maintain records for annual reporting, field site permissions, coordination of research activities in space and time, and for linking datasets and other products to individuals.

LTER Information Management History Database (HistoryDB)

Karen Baker — Mon, 31 Aug 2009 16:54:37 +0000

Poster Number:

326

Presenter/Primary Author:

Robert Petersen

Co-Authors:

Sean Wiley

Co-Authors:

Nicole Kaplan

Co-Authors:

Eda Melendez

Co-Authors:

Karen Baker

Student Poster:

Yes

Growing Information Infrastructure: Data Lifecycles and Subcycles

Karen Baker — Sat, 29 Aug 2009 21:42:51 +0000

Poster Number:

310

Presenter/Primary Author:

Karen Baker

Co-Authors:

Florence Millerand

Co-Authors:

Lynn Yarmey

ULTRA-Ex: Connecting the social and ecological sciences with planners, managers, and the public: Building a broad foundation for the Chicago Region ULTRA

David Wise — Thu, 27 Aug 2009 18:58:54 +0000

Poster Number:

285

Presenter/Primary Author:

David Wise

Co-Authors:

Lynne M Westphal

Co-Authors:

Liam Heneghan

Co-Authors:

Bryan C Pijanowski

Co-Authors:

Nancy C Tuchman

Co-Authors:

Aaron N Durnbaugh

Co-Authors:

Paul H Gobster

Co-Authors:

Jennifer L Hirsch

Co-Authors:

Eric V Lonsdorf

Co-Authors:

Emily S Minor

Co-Authors:

Susan I Stewart

Co-Authors:

Moira L Zellner

The Chicago Region ULTRA-Ex will address a question fundamental to understanding the dynamic interactions between biodiversity conservation, ecosystem processes, and human well being in urban landscapes: In a complex urban/metropolitan system, what are the synergies and tradeoffs between conserving biodiversity and providing ecosystem services to people? The project focuses on the Green Infrastructure Vision of the Chicago Wilderness alliance, a conservation consortium of over 240 organizations.

LTER-Europe Information Management – A European perspective into supporting large-scale data-intensive LTSER network and infrastructure

David Blankman — Thu, 27 Aug 2009 08:05:12 +0000

Poster Number:

279

Presenter/Primary Author:

David Blankman

Co-Authors:

Johannes Peterseil

Co-Authors:

Helena Karasti

Co-Authors:

Michael Mirtl

Co-Authors:

Pirjo Kuitunen

LTER-Europe is a network of national networks established in 2007 through a merger of existing smaller regional and new national LTER networks in Europe. It represents the European contribution to the global International Long Term Ecological Research (ILTER); 16 of the 44 ILTER members belong to LTER-Europe.

Implementing a wireless communications network at the H.J. Andrews Experimental Forest

Donald Henshaw — Fri, 21 Aug 2009 21:14:34 +0000

Poster Number:

262

Presenter/Primary Author:

Donald Henshaw

Co-Authors:

Bierlmaier, Fred

Co-Authors:

Valentine, Theresa

Co-Authors:

Bond, Barbara

The vision for a future “cyber forest” at the Andrews Experimental Forest foresees high performance wireless communications enhancing connectivity among remote field research locations, station headquarters, and beyond to the university and Internet. Increasing use of sensor technologies and collaboration tools for both research and education foretell exponential increases in data and information flow.