	2003 LTER Information Managers Meeting
		September 22, 2003 in Seattle, WA
	"Enabling the LTER Decade of <Synthesis/>"

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Contributor: Jim Laundre (Sep 16, 2003)

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This year we continued adding to and improving our on-line database. In March David Brinkman visited us to discussion EML and tools for converting our ASCII based metadata. We were able to discuss the specific problems with mapping our metadata files to EML and how the conversion tool can handle some of the required EML elements. Once David gets the conversion tool ready for us, we should be able to create EML metadata for all our exciting and new data sets

Also with the small supplement from the LTER network we were able to add hydrologic data to hydrodb for two of our experimental streams and the inlet stream to Toolik Lake.

This year we say farewell to Karie Slavik and Neil Bettez who have left to pursue newer challenges. They have been managing the streams and lakes research and data. . Their replacements, Chris Crockett and Adrian Green, have been doing a great job. They are learning the ropes and doing well with keeping the experiments and data organized.

This summer the Marine Biological Lab offered a course “Arctic Ecology and Modeling: A Study Trip to Alaska” at Toolik Field Station. The purpose of the course was to educate advanced undergraduate students and graduate students about the Arctic environment and demonstrate the interplay between data collection and quantitative modeling.” Marc Stieglitz’s grant, BioComplexity (Land-water Interaction at the Catchment Scale: Linking Biogeochemistry and Hydrology), funded the course. John Hobbie was the course director.


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