Final Agenda-QPM-Oct 22 ’25

10:00 – 10:10 Welcome & Introductions (Christy Goodale, Lynn Christenson)

Morning: Planning for Long-term Research with Limited Funds

(Peter Groffman, Pam Templer)

10:10 – 10:25 NSF funding–what we should do with it and when

10:25 – 10:55 Proposal writing plans (5-minute updates)

• – HBNO (Pam Templer)
• – APE (Jeff Garnas)
• – Forest change (John Battles)
• – Exudates (Angela Possinger)
• – Birds (Mike Webster)
• – Ca-rich silicates (Christy Goodale)

10:55 – 12:00 Long-term data maintenance & succession plans (5-minute talks)

• – Trace gases, microbial biomass and activity, soil moisture and temperature (Peter Groffman)
• – Vegetation, foliar chemistry, litterfall (Nat Cleavitt)
• – Forest floor, soil pits, soil solution chemistry (Chris Johnson, Charley Driscoll)
• – Birds (Webster)
• – Mammals (Lynn Christenson)
• – Insects (Matt Ayres)
• – Stream chemistry and biology (Emily Bernhardt, Chris Solomon)
• – Flux tower, hydromet, phenology, groundwater/hydropedology (Mark Green, Amey Bailey)
• – MELNHE (Ruth Yanai)
• – CCASE (Pam Templer)
• – Soil temperature/moisture/CO2 (Alix Contosta)
• – Salamanders (Winsor Lowe)
• – Data (Mary Martin)

12:00 – 12:30 Lunch break

Afternoon: Current and Future Partnerships with Experimental Forests

12:30 – 12:40 Introductory remarks (Alix Contosta)

12:40 – 12:50 From long-term research to experimental forests: Connecting networks

(Susannah Lerman)

12:50 – 1:05 Open access, stable funding: A freemium path for forest inventories (John Battles)

1:05 – 1:20 Small mammal population dynamics and ecosystem functions in the northern forest

(Rebecca Rowe)

1:20 – 1:35 Experimental forest partnerships: Perspectives from an LTER veteran who’s spent

years swatting mosquitoes in Bartlett (Scott Ollinger)

1:35 – 2:00 Discussion: How can we strengthen partnerships with other experimental forests?

(Facilitator: Alix Contosta)

2:00 – 2:15 COS Business (Christy Goodale, Lynn Christenson)

2:15 – 2:45 Research Advisory Committee discussion: Proposed moss-removal experiment