LTER scientists meeting at Estes Park, Colorado, in Sept. 2006

The Long Term Ecological Research (LTER) Network—encompassing 26 research sites ranging from tropical forests to polar deserts dedicated to understanding long-term ecological phenomena—holds its All Scientists Meeting (ASM) September 10-13, 2012, at the YMCA of the Rockies, Estes Park, Colorado. The meeting’s theme is “The Unique Role of the LTER Network in the Anthropocene: Collaborative Science Across Scales.”The meeting program includes seven plenary speakers (Erle C. Ellis, John Wingfield, Robert Kates, Steve Lansing, Michael P. Nelson, Elizabeth Borer, and Luis Amaral); seven working group sessions featuring over 75 working groups; over 400 posters; four evening mixers; pre-ASM meetings for information managers, graduate students, education representatives, and the LTER Executive Board; and “free time” trips to the Rocky Mountain National Park and Estes Park (see http://asm2012.lternet.edu/agenda for the full program).