Sentences with phrase «of lter»

And at a symposium in Washington, March 2, seven researchers will present results from a sampling of LTER projects.

LTER lead scientists meet in Washington, D.C. and constitute a steering committee to begin the tasks of LTER communication and coordination and accommodation of mutual goals

LTER Climate Committee reviews research and understanding of climate variability and ecosystem responses of the LTER sites (Greenland and Swift 1990)

NSF announces a special competition for cross-site comparisons and synthesis at LTER and non-LTER sites as well as international research awards in response to the 10 - year review of the LTER Program.

Geographic Information Systems (GIS) working group analyzes the status of LTER Network technical supplements and assesses future technical needs (recommends enhanced Internet connectivity, individual site remote sensing capability, annual acquisition of remote sensing data, site archival storage capability, additional GPS units, enhanced site database software capabilities, automated field data collection)

Growth and site diversity of the LTER Network through time.

First comprehensive directory of LTER personnel is compiled by Bob Robbins and Caroline Bledsoe at NSF and printed at the LTER Network Office

Jim Gosz resigns after 10 years as Chair of the LTER Coordinating Committee.

Not exact matches

I think this is for two reasons: For the rst time people could see him directly, without a lter, and secondly, with this new assignment the real charisma of Joseph Ratzinger could emerge.

In the year 2000, I once more got the opportunity to join Priscu's team in Antarctica as part of the Long Term Ecological Research LTER project.

«With fewer seeds, you get less regeneration,» says ecologist Joshua Rapp, affiliated with NSF's Harvard Forest Long - Term Ecological Research (LTER) site and lead author of the paper.

In 1980, the National Science Foundation (NSF) launched the Long - Term Ecological Research (LTER) program to study ecological phenomena over long periods of time at sites representing a diverse range of biomes.

The Central Arizona - Phoenix LTER site is one of two urban LTER sites supported by NSF where researchers study the urban ecology of a complex, dynamic system.

Researchers at the Georgia Coastal Ecosystems LTER site are monitoring and documenting many of these changes among different coastal habitats, including barrier islands, salt marshes, rivers and estuaries.

Bales of switchgrass, a cellulosic biofuel crop being studied as part of the GLBRC / KBS LTER biofuels research program.

The controlled fire pictured here is burning away biomass at the Konza Prairie LTER site in the Flint Hills region of northeastern Kansas.

Pictured: Harvard Pond is located within the 1,200 - hectare Harvard Forest LTER site in north - central Massachusetts, where researchers have transformed scientific understanding of the role invasive species play in disrupting forest growth.

A technique to investigate the nitrogen cycle of streams, which was first developed at the Arctic LTER site, transformed scientists» understanding of the nitrogen cycle in relation to food webs in flowing waters.

Incorporated as an LTER site in 1980, Andrews Forest was one of the founding sites in NSF's national network of ecological research sites.

The colorful tundra landscape pictured here is part of the Arctic LTER site in the northern foothills of Alaska's Brooks Range (seen here in background).

NSF creates LTER Research Coordinator position at Division of Environmental Biology to encourage LTER cross-site research efforts (Caroline Bledsoe hired)

NSF and the National Biological Service sign a Memorandum of Agreement to cooperate / collaborate in LTER Program research

LTER Technology Committee identifies and recommends technology requirements and criteria to meet primary LTER Network research goals (global change assessment and comparative studies of ecological phenomena and theories).

-- for the creation of a global environmental research network based upon approaches established in the LTER Program

Three new LTER sites receive NSF funding: Northeast U.S. Shelf (NES), Northern Gulf of Alaska (NGA), and Beaufort Lagoon Ecosystem (BLE);

Interests: Physiological ecology of plants, role of plant species in Arctic ecosystem function, climate change; lead principal investigator at Arctic LTER.

LTER Network Office establishes LTER Geographic Information Systems / Remote Sensing Laboratory at University of Washington - Seattle

NSF and U.S. Forest Service sign a Memorandum of Agreement to cooperate / collaborate in LTER Program research

NSF proposal competition results in addition of new Land Margin Ecological Research (LMER) site: Plum Island Ecosystem LTER

Interests: Role of animals in ecosystems, stable isotopes and food webs; conducts research on Brazilian streams and at Long Term Ecological Research (LTER) sites at Plum Island (MA) and the Arctic.

A new LTER governance structure is approved by the LTER Coordinating Committee, consisting of a Science Council and an Executive Board

Interests: Understanding impacts of human activities on the biogeochemistry of ecological systems using a combination of field studies and simulation modeling; conducts research at Harvard Forest LTER.

LNO hires William Michener as Associate Director for Project Development with the initial task of strengthening the relationship between LTER and the Organization of Biological Field Stations (OBFS)

LTER Network assesses leadership and governance in response to 10 - year review and in preparation for the election of a new Coordinating Committee chair

When blood fl ows through the kidneys, the kidneys act as a complex fi lter that removes from blood wastes that are generated from break down of food, old cells, toxins or poisons and many drugs that are given for treatment of other diseases.

The next target, lter in the season, will be to reach 300 mph (482 km / h), and hopefully, take the overall electric record of 314 mph (505 km / h) later during the year.

Projects like the LTER provide one of the most valuable toolsets to understanding how climate change has and will affect communities around the world.

Lamont - Doherty Earth Observatory and Center for Climate and Life oceanographer Hugh Ducklow, PAL LTER principal investigator, was one of them.

The team of oceanographers, whale biologists and avian ecologists are participating in the annual Palmer Long Term Ecological Research (PAL LTER) research cruise, which surveys a 180,000 - square - kilometer region of the Southern Ocean along the West Antarctic Peninsula each year.

In 1974, PAL LTER scientists documented 15,000 breeding pairs of Adélies near the peninsula's Palmer Station.

M. Davis et al., «New England — Acadian Forests,» in Taylor H. Ricketts et al., eds., Terrestrial Ecoregions of North America: A Conservation Assessment (Washington, DC: Island Press, 1999); David R. Foster, «Harvard Forest: Addressing Major Issues in Policy Debates and in the Understanding of Ecosystem Process and Pattern,» LTER Network News: The Newsletter of the Long Term Ecological Network, spring / summer 1996; U.S. Forest Service, «2006 Forest Health Highlights,» various state sheets, at fhm.fs.fed.us, viewed 2 August 2007.