International LTER News

June of 2007 - The European Long-term Ecosystem Research Network successfully established. Long term ecological and socioeconomic research meets the challenges of Global Change. Read the PDF press release.

October 2004 ILTER Policy Document - The LTER Policy Document was adopted by unanimous vote of the ILTER Coordinating Committee in October, 2004. This is also available as a .PDF format file.

2003 LTER All Scientist's Meeting: The LTER 2003 All Scientist's Meeting was held in Seatttle on September 18-21 in association with the meeting of the Estuarine Research Federation (http://www.erf.org/). Over 70 members of the International LTER (ILTER) Network attended. The countries of Romania and Slovania were added to the network at this meeting.

Ecoinformatics Training in Maputo, Mozambique Following the ELTOSA biodiversity conference and ILTER meeting at Inhaca Island in Mozambique, LTER Information Managers traveled to Maputo, the capitol of Mozambique, to teach a two-day (25-26 July 2002) ecoinformatics workshop at Eduardo Mondlane University

DIRT: Extending an LTER Project to ILTER: The DIRT (Detritus Input and Removal Treatments) project, which has been part of the Harvard Forest and Andrews Forest LTER research programs for several years, took on an international dimension in November 2000 with the establishment of DIRT experimental plots at the Sikfokut Forest ILTER site in Hungary.

Central and Eastern European Network Continues to Develop: Central and Eastern European countries continued to demonstrate their strong commitment to LTER at the recent Central and Eastern European (CEE) International LTER Annual Meeting on 29 August 2002 in Zvolen, Slovak Republic.

Delivering Research Findings - Canada’s Ecological Monitoring and Assessment Network: EMAN must continuously demonstrate the relevance of ecological monitoring and related research to management and the public.

Developing an Initiative for Long-term Ecological Research in the Caribbean: To develop and advance a research agenda for long term ecological studies in the Wider Caribbean Region, two workshops were hosted by the Florida Coastal Everglades-LTER (FCE-LTER) program at Florida International University (March 20-23 2001) and the Center for Ecology and Environmental Technology, University of Louisiana at Lafayette (March 21-24 2002).