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2 NEXT MEETINGS:
- 2.1 - April 2007 Site Reps Meeting (Find Feedback Loops Here)
3 PLANNING GRANT EVOLUTION
- 3.1 OVERVIEW OF THE LTER NETWORK PLANNING PROCESS
4 CONCEPTUAL FRAMEWORK FIGURES
5 ALL PLANNING GRANT RELATED MEETINGS Excel file
6 MEETING OF 100- Nov. 2004
- 6.1 WORKING GROUPS
7 Planning Grant Committee Meeting One
8 All Hands Meeting in Santa Fe June 2005
- 8.1 June Meeting in Santa Fe
9 August 2005 Meetings
- 9.1 Boston STF,Conference Committee, and Executive Committee Meeting
- 9.2 Woods Hole STF and Advisory Committee Meeting
10 NSF Briefing
11 November 2005 Meetings
- 11.1 LTER Network Research Related to Planning Grant Framework
- 11.2 Conference Committee and STF Meeting at Sevilleta LTER
12 February 2006 Meetings
- 12.1 Conference Committee Meeting in Santa Barbara
13 March 2006 Meetings
14 GENERAL LINKS
- 14.1 Helpful Literature for Planning Effort
- 14.2 LTER HOMEPAGE

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NEXT MEETINGS:

- April 2007 Site Reps Meeting (Find Feedback Loops Here)

PLANNING GRANT EVOLUTION

OVERVIEW OF THE LTER NETWORK PLANNING PROCESS

Planning Grant Overview

The LTER Network received a planning grant to develop a Strategic Planning Process that builds upon recent LTER Coordinating Committee and LTER All Scientist Meeting planning activities See Planning Grant PDF

The primary objective of the overall LTER planning activity is to establish activities that will lead to multi-site, highly collaborative and integrated research initiatives that explicitly include synthesis components and, where appropriate, will be coupled with novel training opportunities in graduate and undergraduate education.

The planning involves establishing a Science Task Force, six working groups and a series of workshops. The LTER Network planning also will develop linkages and collaborative efforts with the other networks, organizations, and societies that share our goals of conducting synthetic, large-scale research to address grand research challenges in ecology.

The outcomes of our activities will be specific sets of ecological research questions and theoretical, experimental designs that can best be addressed by the LTER Network within the four conceptual domains:

alterations in biodiversity,
altered biogeochemical cycles,
ecological effects of climate change and climate variability, and
coupled human-natural systems.

Meeting of 100 Objective

The initial step in the LTER planning process is the Meeting of 100 LTER and non-LTER scientists that will harness the creativity existing within the scientific community. Membership has been determined by the Science Task Force following nominations from the LTER community and other sources including CUAHSI, OBFS, CLEANER, NEON, and other relevant networks.

The primary product of this workshop will be a refined set of Network-level research and synthesis questions built around the Grand Challenge themes that will be translated into specific research projects through further workshop activities. Participants are expected to think broadly, synthetically, and creatively about the role the LTER Network will play in addressing environmental science challenges.

The Science Task Force will use the recommendations from this meeting as input for the next phase of the planning process that will focus the Grand Challenge research questions and establish four Network Science Working Groups (NSWGs). These NSWG’s will generate specific research projects and their implementation plans, specific research designs, and an assessment of technology and resources needed to answer these questions.

CONCEPTUAL FRAMEWORK FIGURES

From the Meeting of 100 - Nov. 2004

CURRENT VISION

Last Revised: June 2006

To Learn More, See The Proposal Documentword doc, still a work in progress

Q1: How do long-term press disturbances and short-term pulse disturbances interact to alter ecosystem structure and function?

Q2: How can biotic structure be both a cause and consequence of ecological fluxes of energy & matter?

Q3: How do altered ecosystem dynamics affect ecosystem services?

Q4: How do changes in vital ecosystem services feed back to alter human behavior?

Q5: Which human actions influence the frequency, magnitude, or form of press and pulse disturbance regimes across ecosystems, and how do these change across ecosystem types?