ILTER Conference 2006 13-19 August

Science and Program Committee (SPC)

This committee will be an essential piece of the ILTER organizational strategy, with specific importance to the goal of delivering scientific information to scientists, policymakers, and the public. It will also be important to help guide strategic collaborations among researchers to foster collaboration and coordination among researchers. The main role of this committee will be to help identify and coordinate ILTER-wide research. Themes will be identified on the basis of reviews of current research activities among ILTER members; an assessment of emerging environmental issues among national and international stakeholders; and the emergence of new scientific theories relevant to the development and use of LTER. The science committee will be composed of scientists from within ILTER's membership. The committee will be diverse in geographic representation and scientific discipline. The committee will be guided by an advisory council of five to ten committed scientific leaders from outside ILTER membership, and perhaps former ILTER leaders.

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Information Management Committee (IMC)

This committee will be a key driver toward success in goal improving comparability of long-term ecological data from sites around the world, and facilitate exchange and preservation of this data. The IM committee will coordinate the development of ILTER's cyberinfrastructure (CI). The IMC will identify and help ensure the implementation of the most efficient and effective data collection, archiving, access and other information management strategies, and help conduct information management training and other capacity-building exercises for ILTER members and associated junior scientists and graduate students.

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Fundraising and Marketing Committee (FMC)

The Fundraising and Marketing Committee will be tasked with coordinating and spearheading fundraising and marketing efforts of the organization, and will include representatives from each ILTER region, both developed and developing.  This committee will work closely with ILTER's professional staff and the Coordinating Committee. 

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