SGS

We have several important goals for the next year including: providing information for database management modules, supporting and participating the LTER Network's effort to establish metadata standards, support and participate in the Network's efforts to distribute data to teachers and students in a user-friendly format for the classroom, to collaborate with other research agencies in relation to data management, and to continue to work with scientists to make new datasets available to the public.

We have georeferenced about half of the study sites on the Shortgrass Steppe LTER, as well as georeferencing roads, fencing, and human made land features. We have also created spatial databases of historical prairie dog data from 1980 to present, historical pasture locations and associated management methodologies, historical herbicide application areas, historical cropland areas, and historical burned areas within the Shortgrass Steppe LTER research site.