Conferences and Meetings

  International Conference on Long-Term Ecological Research

The major theme of this conference is 'Long-term Ecological Research: Meeting the challenges of sustainable ecosystem management from local to global scales'.  Participants will be the scientists engaged in long-term ecological research from all the networks of ILTER.  Also, some keynote speaker will be invited from ILTER member networks to make oral presentations on their latest findings. 

Preliminary information for this conference is now available. 

This first Lancaster Environment Centre (LEC) Research Forum featured talks on long-term monitoring and its application to climate impacts research.  There were also demonstrations of data and information systems and a celebration of 30 years of climatological observations at Hazelrigg Field Station and 75 years since first measurements at Moor House. 

ECN data have been used to address important research questions from an early stage, both by themselves and in conjunction with other site-specific research.  As the time series become longer, they become more and more valuable and our ability to detect long-term trends and extreme events increases.  The aims of this workshop were to review the ECN data and discuss the implications of these results for the development of climate change science and policy.  It also aimed to identify opportunities for future research and analysis using ECN data and sites.

The aim of this session at the annual BES meeting was to present results from a wide range of long-term monitoring studies, discuss current thinking in this area and stimulate debate about future developments.  The session also marked 10 years of operation for the UK Environmental Change Network and included papers describing current ECN research.  The keynote speaker was Dr. Bob Waide from the US Long Term Ecological Research (LTER) Network.

This international multidisciplinary conference was held on 16-20 July, 2001.  It was organised by the NERC Centre for Ecology and Hydrology, the Environmental Change Research Centre (UCL), the Environmental Change Network and the International Long Term Ecological Research Network.  

The conference focussed on applications involving the detection and understanding of long-term changes in natural and disturbed environmental systems. It also reviewed methods of environmental change detection across different disciplines by bringing together scientists and stakeholders concerned with monitoring in terrestrial, freshwater, marine, hydrological, atmospheric, and social systems.

TEC2000 (Teaching Environmental Change)

TEC2000 was held at The Royal Society (London) on Friday 27 October 2000. It was organised by the Environmental Change Network and was funded by a NERC award for ideas to help communicate science to the public in the Year 2000. The event also had support from The Royal Society.

TEC2000 aimed to promote the use of information from research and monitoring for teaching about environmental change in schools. The meeting focussed on the use and development of computer-based tools to deliver material that complements other teaching methods.