Sunday, July 11th
Late afternoon, site review team arrives
Dinner, 6:00 p.m., site review team with all PI’s
Monday, July 12th
7:00 Breakfast, Site Review Team Meets
8:00 Van leaves from Holiday Inn for SGS Field Headquarters
9:00 Welcome and Comments:
Dr. Jud Harper, Vice President For Research,
Colorado State University
Dr. Arvin Mosier, for the USDA-Agricultural
Research Service Central Plains Experimental Range, Rangeland Research Unit
Denver Burns, USDA-Forest Service Rocky
Mountain Research Station Director
9:30 Introduction to the SGS LTER – Indy Burke
10:30 Break and Questions
11:00 Atmosphere – Ecosystem Interactions
Dr. Gene Kelly: paleoclimate and
paleopedology
Dr. Roger Pielke, Sr.: atmosphere-ecosystem interactions
Dr. Bill Parton: long term data analysis and modeling (?)
Dr. Bill Lauenroth: resource availability, climate, and long-term experiments
12:00 Lunch in the cottonwoods
Brandon Bestelmeyer, Bob ???, invertebrates in the shortgrass steppe
1:00 Grazing and small mammal herbivory
Dr. Daniel Milchunas
Dr. Jim Detling
2:00 Enhanced CO2 Experiment
Dr. Arvin Mosier
Dr. Dan LeCain
Dr. Dan Milchunas
3:00 Prairie Dogs
Dr. Bea Van Horne
Jeanine Junnell
Dr. Jim Detling
4:30 – 6:00 poster session/cocktail hour and meeting with
graduate students and undergraduate students
6:00 - Barbecue with all the investigators and students working on the
shortgrass steppe, then back to the Holiday Inn
Tuesday, July 13:
7:30 – 8:30 Executive Session of Site Review Team over Breakfast
8:30 Data Management
Chris Wasser
9:00 Education and Outreach
Dr. John Moore/Indy Burke
9:15 Presentation/Discussion of our Leadership
Structure/Administrative Connections (All)
10:00 Break
10:30 – 12:30 Site Review team meets with the key administrators:
Dr. Jud Harper, VP for Research, CSU
Dr. Will Blackburn, USDA-ARS
Denver Burns, USDA Forest Service
12:30 - ?? Box lunches and the Site Review Team in Executive/Report
Writing Session
02/13/01