Details of LNO activities in service to the LTER community

Details of LNO activities in service to the LTER community

Several LTER sites have explored engagement with the arts/humanities, for example: performing arts at Bonanza, visual arts at North Temperate Lakes, writing/philosophy at Andrews Forest, environmental history/literature at Harvard Forest. These collaborative undertakings have resulted in public performances; publication of books, essays and poems; and gallery displays of art work. This work is both outreach and also primary inquiry as people with different ways of knowing experience and communicate about the ecosystems studied by LTER scientists.

The last few years have seen the development and growth and several new ecological observing networks.  The means by which these various networks have formed has been varied, as are the goals and constituencies of the networks.  This workshop will examine the history of six of these networks through short presentations, and compare the advantages and disadvantages of each kind of developing network.  The goal of the workshop is to provide insights to those who seek to form and participate in new networks as to possible models for structuring those networks.  In particula