AGENDA for 2005 ILTER ANNUAL MEETING in MEXICO

(Minutes, Photos and Presentation Documents Included)

 

Symposium and Business Activities

Date: 27 October 2005

Time: 08:00 – 22:00

Venue: Archivo Historico de la Universidad de Colima

Colima, Mexico

 

08:00 - 09:00      Registration

09:00 - 09:20      Inaugural Speeches

09:20 - 09:40      Break (Group Photo)

09:40 - 09:55     The ILTER Network: An Overview (Hen-biau King, Chair of ILTER Network)

09:55 - 10:15     The MEX-LTER Network: An Overview (Manuel Maass, MEX-LTER Network)

10:15 - 10:35     Climate Change Impacts on Biodiversity in Europe -Who cares? And why? And what can LTER do about it anyway? (Terry Parr, UK Environmental Change Network)

10:35 - 10:50     Break

10:50 - 11:10     Using Networks to Understand Decomposition (Mark Harmon, US LTER Network)

11:10 - 11:30     Effects on LTER and ILTER Networks when Outcomes are an Additional Measure of Performance (Hague Vaughan, Canada EMAN)

11:30 - 11:50     GEO Overview and GEOSS Work Plan in Ecosystems (Antti Herlevi, GEO Secretariat)

11:50 - 12:00     Break

12:00 - 14:00     Poster Session and Lunch

14:00 - 15:30     Organizational Issues & Strategic Plan Working Session (1) (Hen-biau King, Holly Kaufman, Steve Hamburg)

15:30 - 15:45     Break

15:45 - 18:00     Executive Committee Meeting [minutes]

18:00 - 20:00     Dinner

20:30 - 22:00     University of Colima Folkloric Ballet Presentation (A Photo)

 

The 13^th ILTER Coordinating Committee Meeting, 2005

Date: 28 October 2005

Time: 09:00 – 12:30

Venue: Archivo Historico de la Universidad de Colima

Colima, Mexico

 

09:00 - 10:00     Concurrent Regional Meetings

10:00 - 10:15     Break

10:15 - 10:30     ILTER Network Chair's Progress Report

10:30 - 11:30     Regional ILTER Network Progress Reports

-         Central/East Europe

-         Central/South America

-         East Asia/Pacific

-         North America

-         Southern Africa

-         West Europe

11:30 - 12:00     New Membership Application

-         LTER-D (Germany)

-         Lithuania LTER Network

12:00 - 12:30     Plans for Future ILTER Coordinating Committee Meetings

-         Namibia, 2006

-         China, 2007

-         Other activities (ASM, workshops, etc.)

12:30  Closing

 

Coordinating Committee Meeting [minutes]

 

ILTER 2005 Strategic Planning Sessions and Workshops

Date: 28 - 29 October 2005

Venue: Archivo Historico de la Universidad de Colima

Colima, Mexico

 

28 October 2005

14:30 - 18:00     Strategic Planning Working Session (2) (H. Kaufman and Team)

19:00 -               Dinner

 

29 October 2005

09:30 - 12:00      Strategic Planning Working Session (3)

 

                           Strategic Planning Session [Minutes]

 

12:00 - 14:00     Lunch Break

14:00 - 17:00      Concurrent Workshops

-         Workshop I: Information Management and Technology (Organizer: Chau-chin Lin)

-         Workshop II: Biodiversity (Organizer: Terry Parr)

-         Workshop III: Water (Organizer: Jaroslav Vrba)

17:00 - 17:30      Break

17:30 - 19:00      Workshop Reports and Discussion

19:00 - 20:00     2^nd Executive Committee Meeting [Agenda & Minutes]

20:00 -             Dinner

 

ILTER 2005 Mexico Field Trip

30 October – 1 November 2005

Field Trip to RED MEX-LTER sites (A Photo)

 

 

Official Meeting Website: http://www.mexlter.org.mx/reunion2005_e/

 

 

Attachment: Participant List

 

ILTER Member Networks and Participants

Austrian LTER Network	Michael Mirtl
Brazil LTER Network	Francisco Barbosa
Canada Ecological Monitoring and Assessment Network (EMAN)	Hague Vaughan
Chinese Ecosystem Research Network	ZHAO Shidong, YU Guirui, OUYANG Zhu
Czech Republic LTER Network	Jaroslav Vrba
Latvia LTER Network	Viesturs Melecis
Mexico LTER Network	Manuel Maass, Miroslav Macek
Mongolia LTER Network	Jamsran Tsogtbaatar
Namibia LTER Network	Joh Henschel
Poland LTER Network	Kinga Krauze
Romania LTER Network	Angheluta Vadineanu
Slovakia LTER Network	Julius Oszlanyi
Slovenia LTER Network	Janez Mulec
Korea LTER Network	Eun-Shik Kim
Taiwan Ecological Research Network	Ling-Ling Lee, Chau-Chin Lin
UK Environmental Change Network (ECN)	Terry Parr
US LTER Network	Steven Hamburg, Mark Harmon, Laura Sadovnikoff, Matthew Helmus, Stephen Sebestyen
Venezuela LTER Network	Armando Torres L.
ILTER Network Office	Hen-biau King, Holly Kaufman, Miranda Anderson, Laura Sands, Emiline Ostilind
Observers
LTER-D (Germany)	Hendrick Schubert
Lithuania LTER	Saulius Svazas
Italy LTER	Bruno Petriccione
Thailand LTER	Yongyut Trisurat
France	Michel Gutelman
GEO Secretariat	Antti Herlevi

 

(Drafted by Hen-biau King and Eun-Shik Kim)