History of the Long Term Ecological Research (LTER) Network Office (LNO). Services and Activities of the LNO. Cyber Infrastructure, Outreach, Education, Training, Core services, etc. Brief presentations of the current staff at the LNO

Inigo San Gil, University of New Mexico The Long Term Ecological Research Network (LTER) creates long-term ecological data records in twenty six sites across the US. Five years ago the LTER adopted a metadata specification called the Ecological Metadata Language (EML) to facilitate network data integration and synthesis. A growing number of LTER scientists are conducting genomics research, thus the need to adopt an integrated genomics and ecological data management system is urgent....