A field training school has been organized in Nantes (France) in August 2008 about urban water hydrology. Twenty researchers (seniors and graduate students) attended this summer school intended to learn more about the quantification of pollution fluxes in urban water systems. The aim is now to extend this first experience and to organize an international field training school during the summer 2010.

The field training program, GCOE-INeT International summer school on “Frontier in Ecosystem Ecology of Northern Forest” was held June 14-20, 2009 in Hokkaido University’s experimental forests that are included within the JaLTER (Japan Long-Term Ecological Research Network). Nineteen Ph.D. students from eight countries (Australia, Bangladesh, China, India, Japan, Malaysia, Philippines and UK) attended in this program.

The NSF MSP Culturally Relevant Ecology, Learning Progressions, and Environmental Literacy project focuses on the critical education juncture of middle through high school (grades 6-12).

This poster will describe the instrumentation that was placed at the school, the activities that were presented to students in grades 2-6 and future plans for teacher professional development.

An important mission of the Andrews LTER program is to maintain strong linkages among research, education, and forest management and to provide educational opportunities in the realms of ecosystem science and natural resource management.

Research at the Kellogg Biological Station (KBS) LTER site focuses on understanding the ecology of intensive field crop production and its environmental consequences. This topic cuts across biological disciplines ranging from agroecology to evolutionary biology, making our work both timely and important for stakeholders as diverse as farmers and K-12 students and teachers.

The National Biological Information Infrastructure (NBII) entered in 2004 in a five year cooperative agreement with LTER. The NBII-LTER cooperative agreement is the result of efforts championed by W. Michener dating back to 2000. The overarching goal is the interoperability of both networks: Sharing the wealth on information on ecological and biological resources, and offer those to educators,, scientists, lawmakers and the public in general.

DataONE (Observation Network Earth) ensures the preservation and access to earth observation data spanning broad science disciplines to enable advances in science and education. For example, data on the sources and sinks of greenhouse gases can facilitate advances in climate change science and modeling, while data on land use patterns can facilitate scientific understanding of human-environment interactions at local and regional scales.

DataONE (Observation Network Earth) ensures the preservation and access to earth observation data spanning broad science disciplines to enable advances in science and education. For example, data on the sources and sinks of greenhouse gases can facilitate advances in climate change science and modeling, while data on land use patterns can facilitate scientific understanding of human-environment interactions at local and regional scales.