LALTERAgenda

Updated February 20, 1998

PROGRAM for 4TH LATIN AMERICAN LTER WORKSHOP

Puerto Ordaz, Venezuela, May 31 - June 3, 1998

Sponsored by:

Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Cientificas y Tecnologicas (CONICIT)
Fundacion para la Ciencia y la Tecnologia (FUNDACITE-GUAYANA)
Electrificacion del Caroni C.A. (EDELCA)
CVG-Productos Forestales de Oriente (CVG-PROFORCA)
CVG-Autoridad Gran Sabana
US National Science Foundation (NSF)
US-LTER Network Office

Sunday May 31st

Arrival at Puerto Ordaz (1 hour flight from Caracas airport)

18:00-19:00 Registration

19:00-21:00 Welcome reception and dinner

Monday June 1st

8:30 - 9:30 Opening Session

9-30 - 12:30 Reports of the LTER International Committee and the Latin American National Networks

12:30 - 14:00 Lunch

14:00 - 17:30 Breakout into Groups for discussion

GROUP A : Coordinators and researchers of the Networks: Concept, Structure and Functioning of the Latin American LTER Networks
GROUP B: Experts in Information Management: Information Management in LTER Networking

17:30 Biodiversity in the Venezuelan Guayana. Dr. Otto Huber (Instituto Botanico de Venezuela)

19:00 Dinner

20 - 21:30 Mini-workshop: Present and Future of the Neotropical Forest

Tuesday June 2nd

8:30 - 12:30 Working Groups meet

GROUP A: Concept, Structure and Functioning of the Latin American LTER Networks
GROUP B: Information Management in LTER Networking

12:30 - 14:00 Lunch

14:00 - 17:30

GROUP A: Latin American LTER Pilot Project
GROUP B: Information Management in LTER Networking

17:30 Global Initiatives in Ecological and Environmental Research.
Dr. Rafael Herrera (Instituto Venezolano de Investigaciones Cientificas - IVIC)

19:00 Dinner

20:00 - 21:30 Miniworkshop: Ecology and Management of Coastal Ecosystems (Organizer: Dr. Ernesto Medina, IVIC)

Wednesday June 3rd PLENARY SESSION

8:30 - 12:30 Connectivity and Information Management

12:30 Lunch

14:00 - 18:30 Concluding Session

Organization, Structure and Functioning of LTER Networks
Connectivity and Information Management in LTER
Latin-American LTER Pilot Project
Upcoming Activities
Final Words

For more information contact:

Wilfredo Franco E-mail:wfranco@forest.ula.ve

Telefax: (--58) 74.660459 or 74.401581 or 74.401503

Several post-conference tours of environmentally interesting sites in Venezuela have been arranged by the local hosts of the workshop. Please register for these trips before March 31st.