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BOARD
OF DIRECTORS
President
Diana H. Wall
Natural Resource Ecology Laboratory
200 West Lake, Dept. 1499
Colorado State University
Fort Collins, CO 80523-1499
(970) 491-2504
diana@nrel.colostate.edu
President-Elect
Scott L. Collins
Sevilleta Field Station
Department of Biology
University of New Mexico
Albuquerque, NM 87131-1091
(505) 277-2265
scollins@unm.edu
Secretary
Robin Graham
Environmental Sciences Division
Oak Ridge National Laboratory
PO Box 2008
Oak Ridge, TN 37831-6036
(865) 576-7756
grahamrl@ornl.gov
Treasurer
Amelia K. Ward
Center for Freshwater Studies
Box 870206
University of Alabama
Tuscaloosa, AL 35487-0206
(205) 348-1796
award@biology.as.ua.edu
Members
at Large
Thomas E. Jordan
Smithsonian Environmental
Research Center
PO Box 28
647 Contees Wharf Road
Edgewater, MD 21037
(443) 482-2209
jordanth@si.edu
Jim Coleman
Office of Research
University of Columbia-Missouri
205 Jesse Hall
Columbia, MO 65211-1150
(573) 882-9500
colemanjs@missouri.edu
Knute Nadelhoffer
University of Michigan
Biological Station
Dept. of Ecology & Evolutionary Biol.
University of Michigan
Ann Arbor, MI 48109-1048
(734) 615-4917
colemanjs@missouri.edu
Past
President
Louis F. Pitelka
Appalachian Laboratory
University of Maryland Center
for Environmental Science
301 Braddock Road
Frostburg, MD 21532-2307
(301) 687-7101
pitelka@al.umces.edu
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Dear Colleagues:
I am writing to inform you and your ecosystem research
center about current activities and plans of the AERC. Overall, our goal
is to increase the visibility and effectiveness of AERC in promoting ecosystem
science. Our Board is continually energized by contact from members and
additions of new centers, and, as a result AERC is aggressively working
in many areas to advance ecosystem science and research centers. See http://www.ecosystemresearch.org
for details.
This year, we have increased our activities in the Washington
arena in support of ecosystem science by:
• Joining
the USGS Coalition to help preserve the budget and research programs;
• Alerting
and advising members to act on the EPA Star program cuts;
• Funding
the efforts of the AIBS Public Policy Office to create a database to track
ecosystem research funding;
• Conducting
a Congressional Hill briefing in November 2003 on lessons learned from
ecosystem science;
• Hosting
our annual meeting symposium at the Smithsonian on "Lessons from
Long-term Studies of Natural Ecosystems";
• Continuing
to work for support of NEON.
Re: NEON. The AIBS project on Infrastructure for Biology at Regional to
Continental Scales (IBRCS) has been supporting the ecological community
in developing the National Ecological Observatory Network (NEON). During
the past two years, AERC has been an active participant in the AIBS project.
Former AERC President, Lou Pitelka, is a member of the IBRCS working group,
which last year produced a white paper on NEON. In addition, AIBS staff
present project results and NEON status reports at each AERC annual meeting,
so please attend our meeting this year!
Please send us your ideas and suggestions on how we can
support and promote the value of ecosystem research. Also, please send
me your suggestions for topics for the AERC annual symposium and Hill
briefing. Mark your calendar for the AERC annual symposium, Thursday,
November 18, 2004, which will be held in DC at the S. D. Ripley Center
of the Smithsonian Institution. The business meeting will be on Friday
morning, November 19, also in the Ripley Center. We look forward to
seeing you there!
Best regards,
Diana Wall
AERC President for 2004
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