ILTER Webinar 

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Past events

ILTER Webinar – 9 February 2022

18:00-19:00 JST (UTC+9)

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ILTER Webinar – 8 December 2021
11:00-12:00 am UTC

Sally O’Neill

Ecosystem Surveillance Operations Manager at TERN 

ILTER member network: TERN Australia and AusLTER

Title: Standardising ecological monitoring and data systems for country wide data collection: ecologists’ research datasets contributing to national environmental policy-making and adaptive-management

Nathan Levi

PhD student at Ben-Gurion University (BGU) 

ILTER member network: Israel
Title: Airborne imaging spectroscopy for assessing land-use effect on soil quality in drylands

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ILTER Webinar – 8 December 2021
11:00-12:00 am UTC

Invited speakers 

Prof. Qing-Wei WANG

Institute of Applied Ecology, Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS)

Topic: Unignorable photodegradation: Solar radiation is accelerating carbon cycle process of temperate forest ecosystems 

Dr. James WELDON

Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences, SLU

Topic: Weak recovery of epiphytic lichen communities in Sweden over 20 years of rapid air pollution decline

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ILTER Webinar – 29 October 2021
10:00-11:00 am JST (UTC + 7)

Invited speakers 

Dr. Riley Andrade

Department of Wildlife Ecology and Conservation, University of Florida

Representing Central Arizona Phoenix (CAP) LTER

Topic: Linking birds and people: A long-term study of urban nature experiences in relation to local biodiversity

Dr. TaeOh Kwon

Field Science Center for Northern Biosphere, Hokkaido University, Japan

Representing the TeaComposition and ILTER Nitrogen Initiative

Topic: Effects of Climate and Atmospheric Nitrogen Deposition on Early to Mid-Term Stage Litter Decomposition Across Biomes

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ILTER Webinars times will vary to suit audiences across different regions. Therefore, we will record all presentations that will be available to all on our ILTER YouTube channel.

We are looking forward to see you at the ILTER webinar via ZOOM.

8 and 12 Nov 2021, 9:00-12:00 am BRT (UTC - 3)

Online event

• PELD (LTER Brazil) offers two back-to-back sessions before and after the CC meeting
• All delegates and further CC members are invited to take part

Meeting room

The same as used for the Coordinating Committee meeting (provided via mail and in the CC meeting cloud space) 

 Registration

Please register by clicking the above link. 

Topics

The webinar sessons cover integrating long-term studies across Latin America on

• Coastal and marine ecosystems
• Global environmental changes and terrestrial ecosystems
• Aquatic continental ecosystems
• Sustainable use of natural resources
• Biological conservation
• Ecological interactions

 Detailed Agenda

Click to view. And note that our incoming co-chair, Tiffany, will give a keynote presentation on the first day. 

Tuesday 9 November–Thursday 11 November
12:00–14:00 UTC each day
(please convert into your own time zone)

Online event

• One or more delegate(s) of each ILTER network should attend
• Meeting cloud space: CC Cloud > to Meetings > 2021 CC Virtual

Voting requirements

• Each delegation has one vote, that is, for any delegation consisting of more than one person, one should act as head of delegation.
• Also the election will happen via online voting. Therefore, at the beginning of the meeting, a bylaws adaptation enabling this process will be proposed to the Coordinating Committee.
• It is important to reach the quorum for voting, and all Member Networks are thus requested to attend the meeting. 
• We will not have proxy voting at this meeting. 

Online meeting room

The link will be sent to all network representatives before the meeting and is also available at the meeting cloud space.

Registration

There is no need to register for this meeting.

Agenda

 Download here. 

The latest agenda file is always available at the meeting cloud space (see above). 

Preparatory files

For several of the agenda items, a document is provided through the meeting cloud space. In the agenda, these documents are mentioned under the respective session. Please familiarise yourself with them before the meeting. 

• ILTER Committee and Regional Network reports: Summaries of the activities by each of the permanent ILTER committees and regional networks since the previous CC meeting. 
• Concept ILTER Scientific Initiatives: As discussed at the previous CC meeting, it is proposed to reorganise the ILTER initiatives, for instance to select proposals based upon an open call. This document is presented to the CC members for their approval. 
• ILTER Financial Report 2020-2021: Income, expenses, and their interpretation for the previous financial period.
• ILTER Bylaws 2022 proposal: This document contains a proposal for how we can handle the membership dues situation in the future. An outline will be presented, followed by a short discussion. We will collect Member Networks inputs regarding this matter throughout the year and take a decision at the CC meeting 2022. 

Elections

For each open position, information about the nomenees is available at the meeting cloud space, including short CVs and motivation statements. 

Nomenees

• Co-Chair: Tiffany Troxler, US LTER
• Chair of Science Committee: Elli Groner, LTER Israel
• Chairs of Information Management Committee: Guru Siddeswara, TERN (Australia) and Kristin Vanderbilt, US LTER
• Chair of International Collaboration Committee: Michael Mirtl, LTER Austria
• Secretary: Herbert Haubold, LTER Austria
• Auditors: Nathalie Cools, LTER Belgium, and Aurora Gaxiola, LTSER Chile

Note: A co-chair structure is proposed for the Information Management Committee, with two persons collaborating and sharing the work load.

Webinar

PELD is kindly organising a back-to-back webinar on Long Term Ecological Research in Latin America.