Network News Issue 20 Winter 1997

Perspectives on the LTER Program… Proposed LTER, LMER, and JGOFS Merger… Caroline Bledsoe: Contributions as LTER Research Coordinator… New Journal Entitled Ecological Issues… Jerry Melillo Nominated by President to Fill Environmental Position at OSTP… New Graduate Student Committee Chair… H.J. Andrews Experimental Forest… Luquillo Experimental Forest… Retention of Trifluoroacetate (TFA) in LTER Soil… Studies Initiated at Coweeta as a Result of Hurricane Opal… LTER System is the Model for Ecology Course at University of Georgia… Antarctic LTERs Featured in Online K-12 Project… LTER/NASA Collaboration of Atmospheric Correction of Remotely Sensed Data… MODIS Land Discipline Group & LTER Network Synthesis (MODLERS) Study… The LTER Soils Methods Standardization Workshop… International Long-term Ecological Research Developments… HFR-Ireland Collaboration