2018 LTER All Scientists' Meeting

Graduate Representatives Pre-Meeting 8:30am - 5:00pm

Education and Outreach Managers Pre-Meeting 8:30am - 5:00pm

Science Council Meeting 8:30am - 5:00pm

Plenary 1: Stephanie Hampton / Kathleen Weathers 8:30am - 10:00am

Scaling-Up Productivity Responses to Changes in Biodiversity 10:30am - 12:00pm

Understanding and responding to extreme events in ecosystems and social-ecological-technical systems 1:30pm - 5:00pm

The Challenges and Accomplishments of Long-Term Ecological Research 10:30am - 12:00pm

Part 1 of 2: Developing Curricula with Inspiration from the Children's Book Series 1:30pm - 3:00pm

Part 2 of 2: Developing Curricula with Inspiration from the Children's Book Series 3:30pm - 5:00pm

Synthesizing long-term research field and remote sensing data on major ecological disturbances 10:30am - 12:00pm

Reproducible Data Visualization using Rmarkdown and ggplot2 1:30pm - 5:00pm

Scanning the Horizon of the LTER Network: Future Initiatives and Scientific Advances 10:30am - 12:00pm

Camera trapping for long-term monitoring of wildlife: Cross-network considerations 1:30pm - 3:00pm

Ecological stoichiometry through the lens of long-term data 3:30pm - 5:00pm

Part 1 of 2: How to Use Video Storytelling to Share Your Science 10:30am - 12:00pm

Interactions between LTER, NEON and CZO 1:30pm - 3:00pm

Cultivating Diversity & Inclusion at LTER Sites 3:30pm - 5:00pm

Shaping the Future of Public Engagement with Science at LTERs: A Roundtable Discussion 10:30am - 12:00pm

Consortium on biogeochemical budgets and modeling across LTER sites 1:30pm - 5:00pm

Part 1 of 2: Ecological Connectivity in a Changing World: An LTER Synthesis 10:30am - 12:00pm

Integrating stakeholder engagement and social science research within LTER 1:30pm - 3:00pm

Are we what we eat everywhere? Cross-site research of aquatic food webs 3:30pm - 5:00pm

NEON Data: From Collection to Publication 10:30am - 12:00pm

Interactions of Forest Insects and Pathogens with other Global Change Drivers 1:30pm - 5:00pm

Part 1 of 2: Climate Change at LTER Sites 10:30am - 12:00pm

Pelagic LTER sites: site overviews, intercomparisons and synthesis planning 1:30pm - 5:00pm

Dataset Annotation in EML 2.2 10:30am - 12:00pm

Making sense of soil organic matter: barriers and opportunities for cross-site synthesis 1:30pm - 5:00pm

Bridging Ecological and Hydrological Drought Responses Across the LTER network 10:30am - 12:00pm

New methods to analyze community dynamics from observational or experimental studies 1:30pm - 5:00pm

Plenary 2: Michael Dietze / Sharon Collinge 8:30am - 10:00am

Integrating population and community synchrony across LTER sites 10:30am - 12:00pm

The biogeochemical effects of predation: synthesis and direction for ecological prediction 1:30pm - 3:00pm

Semantic Approaches to Improving LTER Data Discovery and Interoperability: A Panel Discussion 10:30am - 12:00pm

Innovative Strategies for Microclimate Monitoring and Modeling 1:30pm - 3:00pm

Engaging LTER Scientists and Educators in Cross-Site Undergraduate Research 10:30am - 12:00pm

Ecological autocatalysis: what is it and how can we test it? 1:30pm - 3:00pm

Part 1 of 2: Organic matter synthesis: patterns, trends, processes, and fluxes across the LTER n... 10:30am - 12:00pm

Part 2 of 2: Organic matter synthesis: patterns, trends, processes, and fluxes across the LTER n... 1:30pm - 3:00pm

Coming to a Computing Consensus: Tools for Successful Collaborations in Broad-Scale Ecology 10:30am - 12:00pm

Species diversity and climate-mediated interactions between plants and their enemies/mutualists 1:30pm - 3:00pm

Part 2 of 2: How to Use Video Storytelling to Share Your Science 10:30am - 12:00pm

LTER Synthesis Research and Training through Distributed Graduate Seminars 1:30pm - 3:00pm

Evaluating the influence of predator risk effects on ecological processes across multiple scales 10:30am - 12:00pm

Integration of Environmental Sciences, Arts, and Humanities Across the LTER Network 1:30pm - 3:00pm

Part 2 of 2: Ecological Connectivity in a Changing World: An LTER Synthesis 10:30am - 12:00pm

Harmonizing ecological community survey data for reuse 1:30pm - 3:00pm

Part 2 of 2: Climate Change at LTER Sites 10:30am - 12:00pm

Data preparation for synthesis - reuse scripts, collaborate, learn 1:30pm - 3:00pm

Video Interviews with anyone in LTER etwork 1:30pm - 5:30pm

Contributions of Long Term Ecological Research to Changing Theoretical Paradigms of Disturbance... 10:30am - 12:00pm

Build Your Own Engagement Plan for Science Impact 1:30pm - 3:00pm

Part 1 of 2: Droughts and deluges: Impacts on ecosystem structure and function 10:30am - 12:00pm

Part 2 of 2: Droughts and deluges: Impacts on ecosystem structure and function 1:30pm - 3:00pm

Plenary 3: Matt Kirwan/Ben Halpern 8:30am - 10:00am

Strategies for building ecological data literacy of students and teachers 10:30am - 12:00pm

Context-dependency of herbivore effects on function: roles of body size, productivity, and biome 1:30pm - 5:00pm

Alda Center: Science Communication Essentials 10:30am - 6:00pm

Exploring the concept and utility of an “ecosystem reanalysis” product with LTER data 10:30am - 12:00pm

LTER Scenarios 1:30pm - 5:00pm

Identifying trends in nitrogen cycling across LTER sites controlled by local and regional factor... 10:30am - 12:00pm

Using Drones for High Spatial and Temporal Resolution Long Term Observations 1:30pm - 3:00pm

Unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) applications for LTER research 3:30pm - 5:00pm

Differential Impacts of the Anthropocene on Protected vs. Unprotected Areas 10:30am - 12:00pm

Incorporating the spatial ecology of consumers into long term ecological research 1:30pm - 5:00pm

Developing a Website for LTER Methods 10:30am - 12:00pm

Educational tools for student data exploration and analysis 1:30pm - 3:00pm

Best practices for designing climate change experiments and quantifying climate exposure 3:30pm - 5:00pm

Bottom-up networks and the LTER: Current and future initiatives 10:30am - 12:00pm

Inter-site comparison of aquatic function over entire surface water networks across LTER sites using 1:30pm - 5:00pm

Eco-Evolutionary Dynamics: Research in Marine LTERs 10:30am - 12:00pm

Tracking foundation species dynamics from the mountains to the oceans in rapidly changing LTER sites 1:30pm - 5:00pm

Percentile-Range Indexed Mapping and Evaluation (PRIME): tool for long term ecological assessmen... 10:30am - 12:00pm

Remixing Instrumentation | Plug and Play Wireless Sensing and Logging for Scientists 1:30pm - 5:00pm

Making Your Data Work Harder: Using Shared Data to Enhance Your Research 10:30am - 12:00pm

Long-Term Ecological Research and Ecological Theories: Converging on New Paradigms 1:30pm - 3:00pm

Making LTER Data Accessible and Useful for Students and Educators 3:30pm - 5:00pm

Video Interviews with anyone in LTER Network 10:00am - 5:00pm

Better Monitoring through Uncertainty Analysis: Optimize allocation of effort, save time and mon... 10:30am - 12:00pm

Facilitating further integration of microbes into long-term ecological research 1:30pm - 5:00pm

Soil microbial interactions driving coupled carbon and nitrogen cycles across the LTER network 10:30am - 12:00pm

Synthesizing long-term community data: questions, challenges, and advances 1:30pm - 5:00pm

Alda Center: Science Communication Essentials 8:30am - 5:00pm

Video Interviews with anyone in LTER Network 9:00am - 12:00pm