Welcome LTER Scientists, students and guests:

The 2009 All Scientists Meeting was held at the YMCA of the Rockies in Estes Park, Colorado from September 13 to the 17th. The Program Committee, working with the LTER Network Office, created a program that by all accounts, formed an exciting and productive meeting. Six plenary speakers (Phil Robertson, Jim Collins, Dave Schimel, Bill Clark, Laura Ogden, Carol Brewer), including an evening plenary presentation on the pre-history and future of LTER (Dave Coleman and Henry Gholz). There were over 75 Working group meetings in seven working group sessions, over 400 posters, four evening mixers, and pre-ASM meetings for information managers, graduate students, education representatives, international attendees, and the LTER Executive Board. Logistics for the meeting are handled by the LTER Network Office in collaboration with The Schneider Group, a company specializing in meeting organization. Special thanks to Luke Cole (VCR) and Kirsten Schwarz (BES) who designed the ASM Logo!

Working Group Organizers: Please add your final report and participant list to your working group information as well as presentations or other meeting materials. To do this, Log in on the ASM web page, go to your working group and go to the "Edit" tab to update the "Official Participants" and "Products" tab. Please submit your final report as a PDF - if you have problems converting your document to a PDF, please use the Contact tab on the main web page.

POSTERS:

There were more than 400 poster abstracts submitted for the meeting. Abstracts for additional posters put up during the meeting can still be entered by going to the poster submission page once you have logged into the site.

Note that you need to log into this site with your LTER account information to submit a late breaking Poster Abstractst, or updated Working Group information or see your account information and schedule. If you don't have a LTER account, follow the instructions from the Login sidebar to request a new account or request a new password if you forgot it on an existing LTER account.

News and Announcements

LTER 2009 ASM Trivia Contest Winners

Submitted by John Vande Castle on Mon, 11/09/2009 - 1:29pm

Triva contest winner!

Answers to the ASM trivia contest were judged in two ways - both with partial credit and without. Either way the winner of a choice of a book in the LTER books series remained the same. The winner is (drum roll please...).

Don Henshaw

Runners-up in order are:

John Porter, Scott Collins, Evelyn Gaiser, Deb Peters, Ryan Colton, Dave Coleman, Brook Wilke, Chelsea Crenshaw and M. ("Gastil") Gastil-Buhl

ASM Plenary Videos Available for Viewing

Submitted by James Brunt on Tue, 09/29/2009 - 2:24pm

Video and presentations captured during the ASM plenaries are available for viewing from the media server at this URL:

http://asm.lternet.edu/2009/asm-plenary-videos-available-viewing

Availability will be updated as presenter permissions are obtained.

J Megan Waltz wins Student Poster Contest

Submitted by Thomas McOwiti on Wed, 09/23/2009 - 2:56pm

Congratulations to J Megan Waltz (KBS) for winning the 2009 ASM Student Poster Contest. Megan’s poster, Predator and pollinator response to flowering strips varies with landscape diversity, came first among 175 student poster entries, enabling her to win a $100 check.

ASM Plenary Presentations

Submitted by John Vande Castle on Mon, 09/21/2009 - 11:15am

Sunday – September 13
Welcome Plenary
Arctic Thriller (Intro)
“The pre-history of LTER”, David Coleman
"Reflections on a decade with LTER" – Henry Gholz, National Science Foundation

International ecology conference to address integrating science, society, and education for sustainability

Submitted by Thomas McOwiti on Thu, 09/10/2009 - 3:20pm

Ecology researchers to share ideas and discuss results from long term research

"FINAL" ASM Program

Submitted by John Vande Castle on Wed, 09/09/2009 - 12:30pm

The program content for the 2009 LTER All Scientists Meeting was extracted from the ASM Website on Wednesday Morning, September 9, 2009. There are still 50 slots available for posters but the poster titles will not appear in the printed program and student poster entries will no longer be included in the Student Poster Competition. Poster may also not be deleted from the program at this point. A PDF version of the ASM Program may be downloaded here.

Final" items for the 2009 LTER ASM

Submitted by John Vande Castle on Mon, 08/31/2009 - 12:03pm

We are less than two weeks out from the 2009 LTER ASM and the meeting has come together very well. The ASM webpage is your primary source for information and schedules for the ASM: http://asm.lternet.edu/
There are RSS and Twitter feeds for the meeting which can be found on the main ASM page. Remember to "Sign in" on the ASM page to get access to the full meeting content.

LTER ASM 2009 Registered Attendees

Submitted by John Vande Castle on Wed, 08/19/2009 - 9:59am

Registration as of September 1, 2009

Attendees A Through H

Attendees I Through Z

AIBS - Science Policy: How to Inform, Influence, and Communicate with Policymakers

Submitted by John Vande Castle on Wed, 07/22/2009 - 5:20pm

AIBS Evening Plenary Session by Jenna Jadin, AIBS Public Policy Office

Monday September 14 1930

YMCA - LTER All Scientists Meeting - Working Group Room Descriptions

Submitted by John Vande Castle on Mon, 07/20/2009 - 1:37pm

All Working Group Rooms will have a digital projector, screen, flip chart and pens. Workshop organizers must provide their own display computers and might consider an ethernet cable if you plan to use a wired connection where available. If you need an overhead projector, please advise LNO staff of this need PRIOR to the ASM. All rooms should have wired phone lines, know numbers are listed. Ad-hoc meeting rooms can be reserved at any time, there will be a sign-up sheet in the "Aspen Dining Room".

2009 LTER All Scientists Meeting