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From Long-Term Data to Understanding: Toward a Predictive Ecology
2015 LTER ASM Estes Park, CO - August 30 - September 2, 2015
 

Information exchange

Drought-Net: A global network to assess terrestrial ecosystem sensitivity to drought

All ecosystems will be impacted to some extent by climate change, with forecasts for more frequent and severe drought likely to have the greatest impact on terrestrial ecosystems. Session:  Monday August 31 - Working Group Session 1 Room Assignment:  Ruesch Auditorium - Dodge (Capacity 50)

Resistance, resilience, and vulnerability to high-energy storms: A gradient perspective

Two previous international meetings laid the groundwork for the establishment of an International Hurricane Research Network, with a focus on the Caribbean and Central America.Working Group Reports Final reports:  ASM 2015 working group final report.docx Participant list:  ASM working group contacts with email.xlsx Session:  Monday August 31 - Working Group Session 1 Tuesday September 1 - Working Group Session 3 Room Assignment:  Emerald Mountain Aspen Glenn – (Capacity 90)

Delving deeper into engagement and broader impacts: lessons from across the Network

Addressing the ‘broader impacts’ of LTER science is both a priority and a challenge. How do we engage stakeholders with LTER science in a way that makes our science usable, useful, and important?Working Group Reports Final reports:  Stakeholder Engagement working group notes by cmhart.docx Participant list:  SKMBT_C25215090911311.pdf Session:  Monday August 31 - Working Group Session 1 Room Assignment:  Longs Peak Granite Pass – (Capacity 80)

Trajectories of change in long-term experimental controls

Scientists are accustomed to thinking about time trajectories in monitoring studies, but directional change in the control plots within experiments is often masked in analysis & presentation.Working Group Reports Final reports:  Final report Participant list:  ControlTrajectoriesWG-participants.pdf Session:  Monday August 31 - Working Group Session 2 Room Assignment:  Longs Peak Boulderfield – (Capacity 80)

3D Scientific Visualization (Terrain Mapping) for ecological and environmental research and outreach.

Topography is a key driver of ecological processes, but complex topography remains difficult to study in spite of relatively recent advances in satellite technology, LiDAR, remote sensing and compuWorking Group Reports Final reports:  Final report Session:  Tuesday September 1 - Working Group Session 5 Room Assignment:  Longs Peak Diamond West (Capacity 100)