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Seven MCR LTER investigators participated in a two-day scientific roundtable meeting in Moorea on May 5-6, 2005. The event was hosted jointly by the Centre de Recherches Insulaires et Observatoire de l'Environnement (CRIOBE) and the UC Berkeley Gump Research Station, and was designed to foster scientific interactions and cooperation among MCR LTER investigators, CRIOBE scientists and representatives and scientists from the Territorial Government and other French agencies.
The Moorea Coral Reef LTER is participating in an international effort to develop a scalable coral reef sensor network. MCR LTER scientists have attended two workshops to identify the science questions and research opportunities afforded by a global network, the core variables for sensor measurement, and a five-year plan for implementation of a network. The report of the Coral Reef Working Group for the workshop "Building Capacity and Linking Infrastructure in the Lake and Coral Reef Scientific Communities," held at Scripps Institute of Oceanography in March, 2005 describes the progress to date.
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Coral reefs and coastal upwelling ecosystems are the foci of two new LTER sites awarded funding this summer by the National Science Foundation (NSF). With the addition of the California Current Ecosystem (CCE) and the Moorea Coral Reef (MCR) LTER sites, there are now 26 NSF-funded sites in the LTER network. Henry Gholz, director of NSF’s LTER program, noted that the two sites significantly augmented the LTER network, which hitherto included only one marine site—Palmer in the Antarctic.
