2024 PAL Midterm Site Review
October 28-30, 2024 at the University of Colorado in Boulder, Colorado
The following presentations are from the PAL-6 Midterm Site Review, as required by the National Science Foundation’s LTER program. The meeting included PAL PIs, team members, and students, as well as a panel of external reviewers and NSF program officers. Any questions about the logistics or content of the review should be directed to PAL Co-PIs Oscar Schofield and Debbie Steinberg.
Palmer LTER Site Overview
- Overview of PAL LTER, Management and Structure (Oscar Schofield)
- PAL LTER Conceptual Model (Sharon Stammerjohn)
- Primary measurements, signature datasets (Debbie Steinberg)
- Modeling activities (Scott Doney)
- Site/program assets and approaches, including collaborative projects, funding agencies, and new technologies (Ari Friedlaender)
- Cross-Site Synthesis (Oscar Schofield)
- Fieldwork Video
Science Themes
Theme A: Drivers of disturbance across time and space scales: ecological and latitudinal response
- Sharon Stammerjohn: Long- and short-term shifts
- Megan Cimino: Phenology, storms, landscapes vs. seascapes
- Students and Post-Docs
- Quintin Diou Cass: Photo acclimation in phytoplankton
Theme B: Vertical and alongshore connectivity as drivers of ecological change on local to regional scales
- Carlos Moffat: Storms
- Students and Post-Docs
- Michael Cappola: Long-term trends of upper ocean
- Jack Conroy: Connectivity of Keystone Species (krill)
Theme C: Changing food webs and carbon cycling
- Scott Doney: Air-sea CO2 exchange, primary production
- Debbie Steinberg: Food webs and C export, prey quality
- Students and Post-Docs
- Maya Thomas: Zooplankton and carbon export
- Shavonna Bent: Krill-penguin trophic transfer
Data Management and Broader Impacts
- Data and Information Management (Sage Lichtenwalner)
- Education and Outreach Programs (Janice McDonnell)
- Undergrads, REUs (Carlos Moffat)
- Graduate Students and Post-Docs (Ari Friedlaender)
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