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LTER Site location, Landsat World Reference System (WRS) coordinates and basic site description information.

Following are the scene center coordinates for LTER sites. A "bounding box" coordinate list is more difficult since all sites are involved in regional investigations.

LTER Site Latitude-Longitude Coordinates - Latitude (left) and longitude (right) are in decimal degrees. For latitude, + (or no sign) equals North, - equals South. For longitude, + (or no sign) equals East, - equals West. This is also translated to Degrees and Minutes, along with the WRS path/row generally used by the site, if known.

Site Landsat Preferred acquisition Institutional affiliations Principal Research topics WRS window biome/main communities H.J. Row July1-August 31 Oregon State University; Temperate Successional changes in Andrews 29; Lat/Long: USDA Service coniferous forest. ecosystems; forest-stream Experimental 44o14'N / Pacific Northwest Douglas-fir/western interactions; Forest 122o11'W Research Station hemlock/western (AND) 44.2, red cedar; true fir population dynamics of -122.2 and mountain forest stands; patterns and hemlock; streams rates of

decomposition; disturbance regimes in forest landscapes Arctic Path 73, Row July1-August 31 Very The Ecosystem Center, Arctic tundra, lakes, Research topics: Tundra 12; Lat/Long: Difficult acquisition - Marine Biological streams. Tussock Movement of nutrients (ARC) 68.6, 68o38'N / very little data in archive Laboratory; Universities of tundra; heath from land to stream to -149.6 149o34'W Alaska, Massachusetts, tundra; riverine lake; changes due to Minnesota, Cincinnati, and willows; anthropogenic influences; Kansas; Clarkson controls of ecological University oligotrophic lakes; processes by nutrients and headwater streams by predation Baltimore Path 15, Row July1-August 31 Institute of Ecosystem Eastern deciduous Patch dynamics of built, Ecosystem 33; Lat/Long (leaf-on) and Studies; USDA Forest forest/ Suburban social, biological, and Study (BES) 38o 54" 04' November1-January 31 Service, Johns Hopkins Agriculture fringe, hydrological components 39.1, -76.3 (N), 76o 52" (leaf-off) University; University of urban parks, of the metropolitan area; 04' (W) Maryland; Baltimore residential and feedback's between social, Note: Would be ideal to County commercial patches, have same temporal riparian economic, and ecological coverage as CAP site and College Park; components of an urban (other urban LTER site) University of North and stream habitats ecosystem; effect of Information based on a Carolina; Parks and People infrastructure and previous Landsat 5 Foundation; US Geological development on fluxes of image (ID# Survey; Yale University nutrients, energy, and LT5015033009832610), water in as listed by EROS Data center upland, stream, and coastal regions of metropolitan Baltimore Bonanza Path 69, Row July1-August 31 - University of Alaska; Taiga. Areas of Successional processes Creek 15; Lat/Long: Difficult acquisition - Institute of Northern boreal forest associated with Experimental 64o45'N / very little data in archive Forestry, USDA Forest including and floodplains; Forest (BNZ) 148o00'W Service, Pacific Northwest permafrost-free facilitative and 64.8, -148.0 Research Station uplands and competitive interactions permafrost- among plant species dominated north throughout succession; slopes and plant-mediated changes in lowlands; floodplain resource and energy seres availability for decomposers; herbivorous

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control of plant species composition; hydrologic regime and stream ecology Cedar Creek , Row July1-August 31 University of Minnesota Eastern deciduous Successional dynamics; Natural 28; Lat/Long: forest and tallgrass primary productivity and History Area 45o24'N / prairie. Old fields; disturbance patterns; (CDR) 45.4, 93o12'W oak savanna and nutrient budgets and -93.2 forest, conifer bog; cycles; climatic variation lakes; pine forest; and the wetland/upland wetland marsh and boundary; plant-herbivore carr dynamics Central Path 36, Row Arizona State University Sonoran Desert Interactions of ecological Arizona - 37 and Path (Main and West) scrub. Urban parks, and socio-economic Phoenix 36, Row 36 - residential, interior systems in an urban (CAP) 33.5, These have remnant desert environment; influence of -11.2 been used by patches, commercial land use change on CAP although and industrial ecological patterns Path 37, Row patches, 37 is centered and processes; movement more closely urban fringe, of nutrients through in the CITY of regulated river and highly manipulated, urban floodplain (dry), flowpaths; interactions of Phoenix effluent-dominated introduced and native river species in urban

environment; millenium- and century-scale geomorphic change in landforms and interaction with engineered landscapes Coweeta Path 18, Row July1-August 31 A University of Georgia; Eastern deciduous Long-term dynamics of Hydrologic 36; Lat/Long: "leaf-off" acquisition USDA Forest Service, forest. Hardwood forest ecosystems Laboratory 35o00'N / (November - March) Southeastern Forest and white including forest (CWT) 35.0, 83o30'W would be useful as well Experiment Station pine plantations disturbance and stress -83.5 for distinction of along an environmental evergreen gradient; stream ecosystems along an broadleaf vegetation environmental gradient; and the riparian zone as a regulator of terrestrial- aquatic linkages Harvard Path 13, Row July1-August 31 Harvard University; Eastern deciduous Long-term climate Forest (HFR) 30; Lat/Long: Universities of New forest. Hardwood- change, disturbance 42.5, -72.2 42o32'N / Hampshire and white-pine-hemlock history and vegetation 72o10'W Massachusetts; The forest; spruce dynamics; comparison of Ecosystem Center, Marine swamp forest; community, population, Biological Laboratory conifer plantations and plant architectural responses to human and natural disturbance; forest-atmosphere trace gas fluxes; organic matter accumulation, decomposition and mineralization; element cycling, fine root dynamics and forest microbiology

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Hubbard Path 13, Row July1-August 31 Yale, Cornell, and Eastern deciduous Vegetation structure and Brook 29; Lat/Long: Syracuse Universities; forest. Northern production; dynamics of Experimental 43o56'N / Institute of Ecosystem hardwood forests in detritus in terrestrial and Forest 71o45'W Studies; USDA Forest various aquatic ecosystems; (HBR) 43.9, Service, Northeastern developmental atmosphere-terrestrial- -71.8 Forest Experiment Station stages, spruce-fir aquatic ecosystem forests; streams and linkages; heterotroph lakes population dynamics; effects of human activities on ecosystems Jornada Path 33, Row July1-August 31 but New Mexico State Hot desert. Playa, Desertification; factors Experimental 37; Lat/Long: acquisition on same path University; USDA ARS piedmont, and affecting primary Range (JRN) 32o30'N / as SEV preferred. Site Jornada swale; bajada, basin, production; animal- 32.5, -106.8 106o45'W scene includes White induced soil disturbances; Sands and this scene is 1 Experimental Range; Duke mountain and swale direct and indirect path south of SEV/LTER University, NC; NOAA, shrubland; mesquite consumer effects; Research Triangle Park, dunes vertebrate and NC; University of New invertebrate population Mexico; Dartmouth dynamics; grazing effects College, NH; Oregon on ecosystem structure Graduate Center; Texas and function; biodiversity Technological University; and ecosystem function; SUNY Buffalo, NY: small mammal effects on University of Keele, UK; soil and vegetation Kings College, London, heterogeneity; soil UK; EPA-EMAP, Las microbial processes; Vegas, NV surface hydrology; trace gas emissions from soils; eolian processes W.K. Path 21, Row July1-August 31 Michigan State University, Row-crop Ecological interactions Kellogg 31; Lat/Long: Michigan Agricultural agriculture. underlying the Biological 85o24'W / Experiment Station Conventional and productivity and Station 42o24'N organic-based environmental impact of (KBS) 42.4, corn-soybean-wheat production-level cropping -85.4 cultivation; systems; patterns, causes, perennial biomass and consequences of cultivation; native microbial, plant, and successional insect diversity in communities agricultural landscapes; gene transfer, community dynamics, biogeochemical fluxes Konza Path 28, Row July1-August 31 Kansas State University Tallgrass prairie. Effects of fire, grazing Prairie 33; Lat/Long: Tallgrass prairie; and climatic variability on Research 39o05'N / gallery forest; ecological patterns and Natural 96o35'W prairie stream processes in tallgrass Area(KNZ) prairie ecosystems, use of 39.1, -94.6 remotely sensed data and geographic information systems to evaluate grassland structure and dynamics Luquillo Path 4, Row All Very difficult Center for Energy and Tropical rainforest. Patterns of and ecosystem Experimental 47 and 48; acquisition due to cloud Environment Research, Tabonuco forest; response to different Forest Lat/Long: cover at time of overpass University of Puerto Rico; palo Colorado patterns of disturbance; (LUQ) 18.3, 18o18'N / although tropical Institute of Tropical forest; palm brake; land-stream interactions; -65.8 65o47'W location allows for Forestry, USDA Forest dwarf forest and effect of management on year-around acquisition. Service, Southern montane streams ecosystem properties; Path location permits Experiment Station integration of ecosystem

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100x100 km sub-scene models and geographic with slight downshift of information systems path 47 McMurdo Path 56, Row Desert Research Institute, Polar desert oases Microbial ecosystem Dry Valleys - 116 Reno, Nevada; U.S. dynamics in arid soils, Antarctica Geological Survey, ephemeral streams, and (MCM) Boulder, Colorado closed basin lakes; -78.0, +165.0 resource and environmental controls on terrestrial, stream and lake ecosystems; material transport between aquatic and terrestrial ecosystems; ecosystem response to greater hydrologic flux driven by warming climate Niwot Path 34, Row July1-August 31 Institute of Arctic and Alpine tundra; Patterns and controls of Ridge/Green 32; Lat/Long: Difficult acquisition due Alpine Research, Fellfield; meadow; nutrient cycling; trace gas Lakes Valley 40o03'N / to cloud cover at University of Colorado herbaceous and dynamics, plant primary (NWT) 40.1, 105o37'W overpass time shrub tundras; cliffs productivity and species -105.6 and talus; glacial composition; lakes; streams and geomorphology, and wetlands paleoecology North Path 25, Row July1-August 31 Center for Limnology, Northern temperate Physical, chemical and Temperate 28 and Path Research is conducted at University of Wisconsin- lakes in glacial biological limnology; Lakes (NTL) 24, Row 30 both the northern and Madison, Wisconsin landscapes in urban, hydrology and 46.0, -89.7 Lat/Long: southern research agricultural and geochemistry; climate and 43.1, 46o00'N / locations (Madison, WI forested watersheds. forcing; producer and 89.4 89o40'W and and Trout Lake) Oligotrophic, consumer ecology; 89° 24 / 43° dystrophic and ecology of invasions; 06 eutrophic lakes; ecosystem variability; temporary forest lakescape and landscape ponds; warm and ecology cold streams; sphagnum- leatherleaf bog; conifer swamp; mixed deciduous and coniferous forests Palmer Path 219 , November 1 -February University of , Polar marine. Oceanic-ice circulation Station Row 105; 28 - Very difficult Santa Barbara; Old Coastal and open and models; sea-ice (PAL) Lat/Long: acquistiion due to south Dominion University ocean pelagic dynamics; Antarctica 64o40'S / latitiude communities; biological/physical -64.7, -64.0 64oW seabird nesting interactions; effect of sea areas ice on primary production, consumer populations and apex predators; bio-optical models of primary production; spatial distribution and recruitment in consumer populations; seabird population dynamics and reproductive ecology

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Plum Island Path 12, Row Mid April, Mid July, The Ecosystems Center, Coastal estuary Linkages between land Sound (PIE) 30; Lat/Long: Late Marine Biological and coastal waters 42.67, -70.99 42o40'/ September/earlyOctober, Laboratory; Universities of involving organic carbon 70o59' Site Mid January South Carolina and New and organic nitrogen has the Hampshire;Massachussetts inputs to estuarine following X ecosystems from and Y bounds Audubon; Wells, Maine, watersheds with various in decimal NERRS land covers and uses coordinates:

X min = -71.22 X max = -70.75

Y min = 42.50 Y max = 42.83 The total area is approximately 37 km x 37 km or 1369 km2 Sevilleta Path 33, Row May 10 to June 14 University of New Mexico; Multiple-- Landscape and organism National 36; To acquire Secondary preferrence U.S. Fish and Wildlife intersection of population dynamics in a Wildlife entire site for Sep 1 to Sep 30. See Service subalpine mixed- biome tension zone; Refuge area, Path 32, notes on JRN acquisition conifer semiarid watershed (SEV) 34.3, Row 36, Path forest/meadow, ecology; climate change; -106.8 32, Row 37 riparian cottonwood biospheric/atmospheric and Path 33, forest, dry interactions; Row 37 are mountainland, paleobotany/archaeology; also needed. grassland, cold microbial role in gas flux; Lat/Long: desert, hot desert. and control of landscape 34o19' / Conifer savanna; heterogeneity; scale creosote bush; desert effects on spatial and 106o62'W grassland; mesquite temporal variability and sand dunes; Great Basin shrub and shortgrass steppes; tallgrass swales; riparian communities Shortgrass Path 33, Row July1-August 31 Colorado State University; Floodplain; Soil water; above- and Steppe 32; Lat/Long: USDA Forest shrubland; belowground net primary (SGS) 40.8, 40o49'N / NOTE: This site was saltmeadow production; plant -104.8 104o46'W formerly called the Service; USDA population and Central Plains Agricultural Research community dynamics; Experimental Range, Service effects of livestock CPR grazing; soil organic matter accumulation and losses, soil nutrient dynamics; and ecosystem recovery from cultivation Virginia Path 14, Row July1-August 31 University of Virginia Coastal barrier Holocene barrier island Coast 34; Lat/Long: islands. Sandy geology; salt marsh Reserve 37o30'N intertidal; open ecology, geology, and (VCR) 37.5, 75o40'W beach; shrubthicket; hydrology; -74.8 mature pine forest; ecology/evolution of salt marsh; estuary insular vertebrates; primary/secondary

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succession; life-form modeling of succession

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