Thursday, 17 August -- Science Program

8:00-9:00: Optional Guided Walking Tour

9:00-9:30: Biodiversity Networking
Terry Parr

9:30-10:00: Deciphering System Change: Extrinsically Versus Driven System Networks
Tim O'Connor

10:00-10:30: Do Typhoons and Hurricanes Mean Disaster? Lessons Learned from Collaborative ILTER Research
Steve Hamburg

10:30-11:00: Tea Break

11:00-11:30: GEOSS and DIVERSITAS: Strategies Towards Global Observation of Biodiversity--an Opportunity for Africa
Norbert Juergens

11:30-1:00: Report on ILTER IM Survey Results and Presentation and Discussion of ILTER CI Development
Kristin Vanderbilt - Information Management and Cyberinfrastructure for the ILTER
Avinash Chuntharpursat - Intergrating Earth Observation Data via a Collaborative GIS

1:00-2:00: Lunch

2:00-3:00: Concurrent Regional Science Meetings

3:00-3:15: Tea Break

3:15-5:00: Oral Papers (15 minutes each)
Jean-Marc d'Herbès - Long Term Ecological Monitoring Observatories Network /The Sahara and Sahel Observatory
Juliane Zeidler - Nationally Relevant Application of LTER Monitoring Data
Elli Groner - Biodiversity and Modulators along the Rainfall Gradient
Angheluta Vadineanu - Arguments for Building a LTSER Infrastructure Starting from the Existing LTER Experience and Facilities: Case Study Lower Danube River System (Romania)
Francisco Barbosa - The Importance of Temporal Scales for the Evaluation of Phytoplankton Diversity in Tropical Lakes: Lake Dom Helvécio, Southeast Brazil as a Case-Study

Evening: Executive Committee Meeting and Poster Session #2

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