LTER-Europe meeting

LTER-Europe meeting
Sevilla/Doñana, Spain
This will be a week-long series of related events:

• Monday 21: LTER-Europe conference of national network representatives (in Sevilla to facilitate participation for those only attending this part of the conference). Evening: transfer of group to Doñana National Park
• Tuesday 22: Site Coordinators' Conference (SCC), day 1
• Wednesday 23: Excursion
• Thursday 24: Site Coordinators' Conference (SCC), day 2
• Friday 25: ALTER-Net WP I3 and I6 task groups (wrapping up, division of tasks, allocation of budgets) (end: 14:00)

Financial support

We can now offer support for up to 3 scientific site co-ordinators and/or platform managers per national network who would not otherwise be able to participate (that is NON ALTER-Net partners and/or NON ALTER-Net countries). Wherever possible this support should be organized through the national partner institutes of ALTER-Net (sub-contracting). It consists of free lodging in or close to Doñana National Park Research Station and a contribution of up to EUR 350,- for travelling.

Further details of meeting

Please find all relevant technical information, agenda, timetable and questionnaire on:

http://www.lter-spain.net/lter-europe/index.htm

In case of technical problems, please contact the host Ricardo Díaz-Delgado under responsible@lter-spain.net

Please feel free to comment and propose issues to be dealt with at the conference. On December 4th and 5th a core group of the ALTER-Net LTER goal and it's WPs will meet in Vienna to finalize the agenda and prepare the background documents for the conference.

Please contact Michael Mirtl, UBA (Austria) Tel: +43-(0)1-313 04/3410 Fax: +43-(0)1-313 04/3700 e-mail: michael.mirtl@umweltbundesamt.at