Printer-friendly versionSaturday – August 29
Travel day for LNO Staff, Information Managers, Grad Students, Education
Representatives, and Executive Board
1700 - 1900 Dinner - Aspen Dining Room
1900 - Mixer - Assembly Hall
Sunday – August 30
General Travel Day for meeting participants
0700 - 0830 Breakfast - Aspen Dining Room
0830 - 1700 LTER Information Managers Meeting - (invitation only) - Longs Peak Lodge - Diamond
0830 - 1700 LTER Graduate Student Symposium - Ruesch Auditorium
0830 - 1700LTER Education Representatives Meeting - Emerald Mountain Lodge - Glacier Basin
1000 - 1030 Coffee break - Assembly Hall Foyer
1200 - 1800 ASM Registration - Registration material pickup, information- Administration Building
1200 - 1300 Lunch - Aspen Dining Room
1300 - 1700 LTER Executive Board Meeting (invitation only) - Emerald Mountain Lodge - Aspen Glen
1500 - 1530 Break - Assembly Hall Foyer
1600 - 1900 Poster set up - Convention Center Assembly Hall
1730 - 1900 Dinner - Aspen Dining Room
1930 - 2030 Site Science Lightning Plenary (2 slides + 2 minutes / site) - Ruesch Auditorium
2030 - 0000 Evening mixer, Site description and science posters and informal poster presentation -Assembly Hall
Monday August 31
0700 Breakfast - Aspen Dining Room
0730 - 1800 ASM Registration - Registration material pickup, information - Administration Building
0700 - 1000 Poster Set up - Convention Center Assembly Hall
0830 - 1200 Morning Plenary - Ruesch Auditorium
0830 - 0900 Welcome - Peter Groffman and Robert Waide
0900 - 1000 ASM Plenary - "Long Term Ecological Research : A perspective from the top of the food chain at the bottom of the world" - Diana Wall - School of Global Environmental Sustainability at Colorado State University
1000 - 1030 Coffee break - Assembly Hall Foyer
1030 - 1130 NSF Plenary -- "Understanding the Rules of Life" - James Olds, National Science Foundation, Assistant Director for Biological Sciences
1200 - 1330 Lunch - Aspen Dining Room
1200 - 1330 Ad-hoc Working Group Session 1
1330 -1530 - Afternoon Working Group Session 1
1530 - Break - Assembly Hall Foyer
1600 - 1800 - Afternoon Working Group Session 2
1800 -1930 Dinner - Aspen Dining Room
1800 -1930 Ad-hoc Working Group Session 2
1845 -2000 The LTER National Communications Office at NCEAS - What can we do for you? - Ruesch Auditorium
1930 - 0000 Evening Science Poster Session and Mixer – Posters - Assembly Hall -Presentation of Theme Group 1:
- Crafting conceptual models that are sustainable
- Does continuous ecosystem stress lead to vulnerability?
- Long-term changes in NPP across ecosystems
- LTER and society: broader impacts of long-term research
Tuesday September 1
0700 Breakfast - Aspen Dining Room
0730 - 1800 ASM Registration - Registration material pickup, information - Administration Building
0800 Morning Plenary: - Ruesch Auditorium
0800 - 0845 Plenary: - "Looking back to move ahead: Retrieving, resurrecting and disseminating historical data sets to inform long-term research" - Knute Nadelhoffer - Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, University of Michigan
0845 - 09:30 Plenary -" Data Visualization: a Language for Scientists and Society" - Ned Gardiner - Climate Program Office of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration
1145 - 1200 Group Photo - Outside - location TBD
0930 - 10:00 Coffee Break - Assembly Hall Foyer
1000 - 1200 Morning Working Group Session 3
1200 - 1330 Lunch - Aspen Dining Room
1200 - 1330 Ad-hoc Working Group Session 3
1330 - 1530 Afternoon Working Group Session 4
1530 - Break - Assembly Hall Foyer
1600 - 1800 Afternoon Working Group Session 5
1800 - 1930 Dinner - Aspen Dining Room
1800 -1930 Lead PI Meeting and Dinner - Pine Dining Room
1800 - 1930 Ad-hoc Working Group Session 4
1930 - 2030 - NSF Town Hall Discussion - Ruesch Auditorium
1930 - 0000 Evening Poster Session and Mixer - Assembly Hall - Presentation of Theme Group 2:
- Predicting ecological change: LTER in the era of big science
- The unique value of long-term, networked studies
- Information Management
- Other Topics
Wednesday September 2
0700 Breakfast - Aspen Dining Room
0730 - 1500 ASM Registration - Registration material pickup, information - Administration Building
0800 - Morning Working Group Session 6
0945 - Break - Assembly Hall Foyer
1000 - 1200 - Plenary - "Distilling your message" - Christine O'Connell - Alan Alda Center for Communicating Science - Ruesch Auditorium
1200 - 1330 Lunch - Aspen Dining Room
1200 - 1330 Ad-hoc Working Group Session 5
1330 - 1530 Afternoon Working Group Session 7
1530 - 1600 Break - Assembly Hall Foyer
1600 - 1800 Afternoon Working Group Session 8
1800 - 1930 Dinner
1800 - 1930 Ad-hoc Working Group Session 6
1845 - 0000 Screening of "Antarctic Edge: 70° South" film, Student Poster and other awards, Closing mixer and Entertainment - Longhouse Gym
Thursday September 3
Departures
