2009 LTER All Scientists Meeting - Product oriented

Metrology for aquatic urban systems: comparison of the French and US approach

Morgan Grove — Fri, 17 Jul 2009 14:43:47 +0000

Final Report (Required, .pdf format only) :

Working Group Report: Metrology for aquatic urban systems: comparison of the French and US approach

Organizer:

Morgan Grove

Co-organizer(s):

Nancy Grimm

Co-organizer(s):

Peter Groffman

Co-organizer(s):

Larry Band

Co-organizer(s):

Stan Gregory

Co-organizer(s):

Steward Pickett

Co-organizer(s):

Daniel Childers

Co-organizer(s):

Marie-Noelle PONS

During the LTER-ZA meeting in Baltimore in October 2008, it appeared that US and French research teams involved in the study of urban and periurban aquatic systems were not measuring the same parameters in their field studies. Any cooperation between our research teams will be difficult as long as methods and monitoring approaches are different or at least their differences are well understood on both sides.

Preferred Dates:

Sept. 14

Preferred Dates:

Sept. 15

Preferred Dates:

Sept. 16

Working Group Duration:

Session Info

Session(s):

Working Group Session 1

Room:

Longs Peak Boulder Field

Sources of Social-Ecological Resilience: The LTER Network as a Testbed to Explore General Patterns of Adjustment to Rapid Changes

Terry Chapin — Mon, 06 Jul 2009 16:39:17 +0000

Final Report (Required, .pdf format only) :

Sources of Social-Ecological Resilience - Final Report

Organizer:

Terry Chapin

Resilience has matured substantially as a system concept since Holling first applied the concept to ecological systems (Holling 1973). The literature has developed exponentially in the last quarter-century (Jansson et al.). It has been extended to apply to social systems (Westley et al. 2002) and to social-ecological systems. Finally it has been increasingly integrated into other literatures such as vulnerability analysis and sustainability science (e.g., Turner et al. 2003, Clark et al. 2003) and included in policy documents that address societal responses to climate change.

Preferred Dates:

Sept. 14

Working Group Duration:

Session Info

Session(s):

Working Group Session 6

Session(s):

Working Group Session 7

Room:

Longs Peak Chasm Lake

Publishing the Grasslands Data Integration Database for access to extensive and integrated cross-site ANPP data

Nicole Kaplan — Wed, 01 Jul 2009 18:01:58 +0000

Final Report (Required, .pdf format only) :

GDI ASM09 Working Group, Final Report

Organizer:

Nicole Kaplan

Co-organizer(s):

Kristin Vanderbilt

Co-organizer(s):

Christine Laney

Annual Aboveground Net Primary Production (ANPP) datasets represent a core area of research in the Long Term Ecological Research (LTER) Network and many other programs. The Grasslands Data Integration (GDI) database is innovative in that it contains ANPP data from seven sites that are integrated at the level of the species and sampling unit, which facilitates fine temporal and spatial scale analysis of patterns of ANPP and species diversity.

Preferred Dates:

Sept. 14

Working Group Duration:

Session Info

Session(s):

Working Group Session 5

Room:

Longs Peak Chasm Lake

Official Participants

Additional Participants:

Judy Cushing

Identifying the benefits and barriers to graduate student cross-site socio-ecological research in urban systems

Elizabeth Cook — Wed, 01 Jul 2009 16:25:04 +0000

Final Report (Required, .pdf format only) :

ASM_WorkingGroup_Report_Oct2009_Final.pdf.pdf

Organizer:

Elizabeth Cook

Co-organizer(s):

Bethany Cutts

Co-organizer(s):

Rebecca Hale

Co-organizer(s):

David Iwaniec

Co-organizer(s):

Michele Romolini

Co-organizer(s):

Kirsten Schwarz

Co-organizer(s):

Jay Munyon

Co-organizer(s):

Gregory Koch

Co-organizer(s):

Greg Losada

Many urban areas are expanding and nearly 80% of the US population now lives in cities. With the inception of LTER sites dedicated to addressing urban systems (BES, CAP 1997), advances have been made regarding socio-ecological research and understanding urban ecosystems. In addition, many other LTER sites also conduct research on human dominated systems, thus offering several opportunities for cross-site collaborations.

Preferred Dates:

Sept. 14

Working Group Duration:

Session Info

Session(s):

Working Group Session 1

Room:

Longs Peak Diamond West

Working Group Materials

Related materiels:

GSS_Cross-Site_AGENDA_13Sept09.pdf

Official Participants

LTER Participants:

Terry Chapin

Meilian Chen

LINDSAY CRAY

Rebecca Garvoille

George Hamilton

Gregory Koch

Greg Losada

Noraida Martinez

Yevgeniy Marusenko

James McConaghie

Jay Munyon

Daniel Nidzgorski

Oliva Pisani

Sydne Record

Brenda Shears

Additional Participants:

Olivia Bartlett (ILTER)

Stuart Geiger (Georgetown University)

Monica Smith (BES)

Ben Warner (CAP)

Products

Files:

Letter to Dr. Robert Waide and LNO addressing cross-site interdisciplinary graduate research within the LTER network

Invertebrate impacts on ecosystem services under climate change

Chelse Prather — Wed, 01 Jul 2009 15:23:50 +0000

Final Report (Required, .pdf format only) :

Invertebrate impacts on ecosystem services under climate change_report.pdf

Organizer:

Chelse Prather

Co-organizer(s):

Angela Laws

Co-organizer(s):

Shannon Pelini

Invertebrates have known impacts on ecosystem services, and these impacts are likely to change as invertebrates respond to climate change. In this workshop, we aim to use the breadth of knowledge and diversity of sites in the LTER network to conceptualize the impacts that invertebrates have on ecosystem services, and how these may be altered by climate change. Invertebrates impact ecosystem services both directly (e.g. pollination, pest and disease control, water pollution, decomposition, and recreation) and indirectly through their consumption of primary producers (e.g.

Preferred Dates:

Sept. 15

Working Group Duration:

Session Info

Session(s):

Working Group Session 4

Room:

East Side Deer Ridge Fireside

Working Group Materials

Related materiels:

Ecosystem Services which invertebrates could impact.doc

Discussion_questions.doc

Final report from ASM working group.doc

Invertebrate Ecosystem Services and Climate Change_Compiled notes from workshop 9-15-09.doc

Official Participants

LTER Participants:

Russell Dennis

John Kominoski

Chelse Prather

Angela Laws

Shannon Pelini

Sydne Record

Jessica Woltz

Kyle Wickings

Nikhil Jaikumar

Sheena Parsons

John Blair

Christopher Bloch

Emily Rivest

Samantha Davis

Xueying Han

Timothy Seastedt

Nicholas Schooler

Jenifer Dugan

Scott Newbold

Additional Participants:

Margaret Kosmala-kosmala@umn.edu

Chuan Kai Ho - chuanho@tamug.edu

Israel Del Toro - israedt@gmail.com

Tracy Smith - tracy@nrel.colostate.edu

Yanmei Xiong - yanmei.xiong@colorado.edu

Approaches to Information Management for Schoolyard LTER data

Steven McGee — Wed, 01 Jul 2009 15:04:47 +0000

Final Report (Required, .pdf format only) :

Final Report

Organizer:

Steven McGee

Co-organizer(s):

Kari O'Connell

The Schoolyard LTER program supports a wide range of education outreach activities to K12 schools. One way that many sites have adopted is supporting students from local schools in the collection of long-term data near their schools. A recurring problem for sites that support school-level, long-term data collection is the storage and maintenance of the student level data. In many ways, the difficulties that the Schoolyard program has mirror the information management issues that the LTER program has faced throughout its history.

Preferred Dates:

Sept. 14

Working Group Duration:

Session Info

Session(s):

Working Group Session 1

Room:

East Side Rainbow Fireside

Working Group Materials

Related materiels:

Harvard Forest Presentation

Official Participants

LTER Participants:

Annie Baker

Elena Sparrow

Pamela Snow

Emery Boose

Ken Ramsey

Marshall White

Todd Crowl

Alan Berkowitz

Additional Participants:

Cheryl Williams - Cheryl.williams@matsuk12.us

Anne Haywood - ahaywood@ngs.org

Ray Tschillard - rtschillard@greelyschools.org

Jennifer Witers - jenn@lponline.net

How Is Urbanization Making America Socially and Ecologically Homogeneous?

Kelli Larson — Wed, 01 Jul 2009 01:26:07 +0000

Final Report (Required, .pdf format only) :

LTER-ASM2009_WorkingGrpReport_Larsonetal.pdf.pdf

Organizer:

Kelli Larson

Co-organizer(s):

Laura Ogden

Co-organizer(s):

Morgan Grove

Co-organizer(s):

Rinku Roy Chowdhury

Co-organizer(s):

Colin Polsky

Land uses and management practices in residential parcels (e.g., aesthetic/recreational/economic uses, land-cover choices, irrigation and chemical applications) impact and are impacted by social (e.g., stratification and status, environmental perceptions, zoning) and ecological (e.g., carbon sequestration, nutrient cycling, water demand and quality) processes.

Preferred Dates:

Sept. 14

Working Group Duration:

Session Info

Session(s):

Working Group Session 6

Session(s):

Working Group Session 7

Room:

Longs Peak Boulder Field

Working Group Materials

Next phases of development for Ecological Metadata Language (EML)

Margaret O'Brien — Tue, 30 Jun 2009 19:41:24 +0000

Final Report (Required, .pdf format only) :

Final report, EML next steps working group

Organizer:

Margaret O'Brien

Co-organizer(s):

Mark Schildhauer

The adoption of the Ecological Metadata Language specification (EML) has been key to building network synthesis architectures which are based on high-quality standardized metadata. Several scientific groups such as the Genomics Standards Consortium, the LTER GIS community and the NEON network plan to work further with EML either to directly describe data or to augment specific data collections. Additionally, semantic approaches for data description are emerging, and EML should achieve compatibility with these.

Preferred Dates:

Sept. 14

Preferred Dates:

Sept. 15

Working Group Duration:

Session Info

Session(s):

Working Group Session 2

Room:

Reusch Auditorium Dodge

Working Group Materials

Related materiels:

Agenda: EML next steps

Official Participants

LTER Participants:

Matthew Jones

David Blankman

Stevan Earl

Sven Bohm

Terry Benzel

Suzanne Remillard

Wade Sheldon

Duane Costa

Fabio Silva

Mason Kortz

Corinna Gries

Akiko Ogawa

Ken Ramsey

James Brunt

MeeiRu Jeng

Mark Servilla

Xueying Han

Emery Boose

Jason Downing

Sridhar Gullapalli

Margaret O'Brien

Mark Schildhauer

Additional Participants:

Ben Leinfelder (NCEAS) - leinfelder@nceas.ucsb.edu

Serjio das Santos (STRI)

Victoria Goodall (SAEON)

Chauchin Lin (TLTER) - chin@tfri.gov.tw

Implementing the ILTER Science Agenda: Defining International and Regional Science Initiatives

Patrick Bourgeron — Tue, 30 Jun 2009 19:28:02 +0000

Organizer:

Patrick Bourgeron

Co-organizer(s):

Manuel Maass

Co-organizer(s):

Jacques Baudry

Co-organizer(s):

Steven Hamburg

Co-organizer(s):

Kristin Vanderbilt

Implementing the ILTER Science Agenda: Defining International and Regional Science Initiatives Since its 2003 annual meeting, the International Long Term Ecological Research network (ILTER) transformed itself from essentially an infrastructure-building project to a more diversified, stable organization with the ability to implement substantive scientific projects in collaboration with the US-LTER International Committee (see web link in working group materials).

Preferred Dates:

Sept. 15

Working Group Duration:

Session Info

Session(s):

Working Group Session 5

Session(s):

Working Group Session 6

Session(s):

Working Group Session 7

Room:

Longs Peak Diamond East

Working Group Materials

ILTER Synthesis Workshop: Interactions among ecosystem services, ecosystem dynamics, and human outcomes and behavior

Patrick Bourgeron — Tue, 30 Jun 2009 18:45:49 +0000

Organizer:

Patrick Bourgeron

Co-organizer(s):

Manuel Maass

Co-organizer(s):

Jacques Baudry

ILTER Synthesis Workshop: Interactions among ecosystem services, ecosystem dynamics, and human outcomes and behavior

Preferred Dates:

Sept. 14

Working Group Duration:

Session Info

Session(s):

Ancillary: Working Group Session 1

Session(s):

Ancillary: Working Group Session 2

Room:

Longs Peak Granite Pass

Working Group Materials