The FCE LTER is imbedded in the 26-site LTER network, and as such, FCE scientists, staff and students organize and participate in cross-site research and education activities as well as aid in governance of the network. Cross-site activities include: 1) science projects coordinated by FCE that involve other LTER sites; 2) workshops organized or attended by FCE scientists to coordinate cross-site science, write proposals or papers; 3) education and information management activities coordinated or attended by FCE students, collaborators or staff; and, 4) activities coordinated by FCE researchers at sites not involved in the LTER network. We have had a particular focus on cross -site activities in four areas: 1) research in Mexico and the Caribbean with other LTER and ILTER collaborators and students; 2) characterization of dissolved organic carbon across the LTER network; 3) cross-site investigations of urban land use; and, 4) cross-site education programs. FCE scientists, students, and staff have been particularly active at the network-level, including governance, program development, and research enhancement. Information Linda Powell is a member of the Network Information Systems Advisory Committee (NISAC) that guides network information management, and contributes regularly to the Network-wide Information Management newsletter "Databits." A total of 28 FCE collaborators, staff and students participated in the 2009 Network LTER ASM, where they presented 16 FCE posters and led 3 working groups.
Cross-Site and Network Activities:
Cross-Site Research Workshops Network Activities Education Network Activities	Network Committee Membership NSF LTER Renewal Panels Information Management Network Activities Network News Articles

Cross-Site Research
Date	FCE Participants	Title	Sites
2006-2009	Jaffe'	Characterizing dissolved organic matter across a biome-based climatic gradient	FCE, BNZ, ARC, KNZ, MWT, CWT, LUQ
2007-2008	Jaffe'	DOM dynamics in a managed forest ecosystem	FCE, CWT, HBR
2009	Jaffe'	Environmental dynamics of black carbon in DOM in fire-prone ecosystems	FCE, BNZ, KNZ
2007-2009	Fuentes, Zieman	Using flux towers to study carbon cycling in coastal ecosystems	FCE, VCR
2006-2008	Gaiser, Trexler, Loftus, LaHee, Ruehl	Comparative food web structure in karstic Caribbean wetlands	FCE, MexLTER
2009	Anderson, Rebenack	Dendrochronological reconstruction of storm events	FCE, Swiss Federal Institute for Forest, Snow and Landscape Research
2009-2010	Onsted, Ogden, Roy Chowdhury	A Cross-Site LTER Comparative Study of Land-Cover and Land-Use Change	FCE, BES, CAP, PIE
2009	Price, Stalker, Rivera-Monroy	Comparative Ecohydrology between FCE and ECOPEY Mexican LTER	FCE, MexLTER (CINVESTAV)
2008-2011	Joseph Boyer and Rafael Guevara	MIRADA - Microbial Inventory Research Across Diverse Aquatic LTERs	FCE, ARC, PAL, MCM, NTL, HBR, PIE, VCR, CWT, GCE, SBC, CCE, MCR
2007-2008	Troxler, Boyer, Scinto	Coastal peatlands in the Everglades and Panama: comparative studies to advance LTER science	FCE
2007	Price, Rivera-Monroy, Childers, Twilley	Comparative ecohydrology of mangrove wetlands of the Yucatan Peninsula, Mexico and the Everglades, FL	FCE, MexLTER (ECOPEY)
2008	Rains	International Collaboration with the Ecosistemas Arrecifales del Pacifico Program of the	FCE, MexLTER (ECOPEY)
2008	Madden	Mexican ILTER Network	FCE, MexLTER (CINVESTAV), U. Guadelajara
2010	Boyer, Gaiser, Anttila	Remote sensing of phytoplankton distribution in coastal bays	FCE, Finnish Long-Term Socio-Ecological Research Network
2010-present	Jaffé	Comparative research on DOM dynamics between Everglades, Pantanal (Brazil) and the Okavango Delta (Botswana)	FCE, Pantanal (Brazil), Okavango Delta (Botswana)
2011-2012	Troxler	US-Mexico Workshop: Catalyzing international collaborations to develop a platform for ecohydrological research - Chamela, Jalisco, Mexico, September 2012	LUQ, FCE, SEV, CAP

Workshops
Date	FCE Participants/Role	Workshop title	Venue	Sites
2007	Ogden	Ecosystem Services Workshop	Portland, OR	Multiple Sites
Jan. 2009	Gaiser, Davis, Rivera-Monroy (participants)	Developing an LTER Caribbean Hurricane Research Coordination Network	Merida, MX	FCE, LUQ, MexLTER
Feb. 2009	Roy Chowdhury, Heffernan	Residential Lawns Workshop	Arizona State University	Multiple sites
May 2009	Gaiser (co-lead)	Understanding and Adapting to Climate Change in the Coastal Zone	San Diego, CA; LTER SC meeting	FCE, VCR, GCE, PIE
May 2009	Heffernan (participant)	Scenarios of landscape change (D. Foster lead)	San Diego, CA; LTER SC meeting	Multiple sites
June 2009	Saunders (organizer), members of the FCE Modeling and Synthesis group	FCE Modeling & Synthesis Theme (FCE MOST) workshop	Key Largo, FL	FCE, SFWMD
June 2009	Ogden	LTER representative for meeting with the Research Center for Eco-environmental Sciences, Chinese Academy of Science	Beijing, China	FCE, BES, CAP
July 2009	Ogden, Roy Chowdhury, Onsted	Residential Lawns Cross-site Research Planning Workshop	Clark Univ.	CAP, BES, FCE, PIE
Sept. 2009	Heffernan	Scenarios of landscape change (D. Foster lead)	Estes Park, CO LTER All Scientists Meeting	Multiple sites
Sept. 2009	Roy Chowdhury, Heffernan	Residential Lawns Workshop	Estes Park, CO LTER All Scientists Meeting	Multiple sites
Sept. 2009	Troxler	A unified framework to quantify biogeochemical complexity of large-scale ecological systems	Estes Park, CO LTER All Scientists Meeting	Multiple sites
October 30, 2009	Moses (organizer)	Everglades Climate Change Drivers Workshop	West Palm Beach, FL	FCE, SFWMD
Dec. 2009	Gaiser (organizer), Davis, Rivera-Monroy (participants)	Developing an LTER Caribbean Hurricane Research Coordination Network	Miami, FL	FCE, LUQ, MexLTER
March 9-10, 2010	Rafael Guevara (participant)	From Molecules to Metadata: MIRADA LTERS follow-up working group meeting	Woods Hole, Massachusetts	FCE, ARC, PAL, MCM, NTL, HBR, PIE, VCR, CWT, GCE, SBC, CCE, MCR
February 2011	Rudolf Jaffé (invited speaker and participant)	LTER Schoolyard Children's Book Series workshop	Boulder, Colorado	Multiple LTER sites
July 13-15, 2011	Rudolf Jaffé (organizer)	Everglades-Pantanal Initiative workshop (funded by ENP)	Miami, FL	FCE, ENP, FAU, UF, UM and participating Brazilian institutions
January, 2012	Victor Rivera-Monroy (participant)	Charting the Future of Environmental Studies at the Liquid Jungle Lab: Proposal for a Planning Workshop	Panama City, Panama	FCE, various other institutions from the U.S., Panama, Spain, Costa Rica, and Chile
October, 2012	Tiffany Troxler, Christopher Madden, Victor Rivera-Monroy (organizing committee)	Human Capacity Building to Strength the Mexican LTER Network through a Collaborative Research Agenda with the US LTER Network	Chamela Field Station (Jalisco, Mexico)	AND, CAP, CWT, FCE, LUQ, KNZ, SEV

Network Activities
Date	Participants	Title	Sites and venues
2006-present	Gaiser (advisory committee), Koch (participant)	NSF Research Coordination Network grant for the Global Lakes Ecological Observatory Network	FCE, NTL, GLEON; meetings in Archbold Biological Station, FL; Montreal, QB; Lammi, Finland; Sweden; Hamilton, NZ
July 2005	Gaiser (organizer)	Understanding and Adapting to Climate Change in the Coastal Zone	2009 NSF LTER ASM Workshop
2006-2007	Ogden	Writing Team, ISSE Decadal Plan	Madison, WI; Portland, OR
2009	Gaiser (co-lead), Davis, Rivera-Monroy (participants)	Developing an LTER Caribbean Hurricane Research Coordination Network	FCE, LUQ, MexLTER; meetings in Merida, MX, Miami, FL
2011	Gaiser	Sabbatical exchange with Finnish Long-Term Socio-Ecological Research Network	FCE, FinLTSER; SKYE (Finnish Environment Institute), Helsinki, Finland
2011	Gaiser	Comparative studies of estuarine and coastal system properties	FCE, GCE; Coastal and Estuarine Research Federation meeting, Daytona Beach, FL

Education Network Activities
Date	Participants	Activities	Sites and Venues
May 2009	Powell	Talk about the FCE LTER Program given to the Gifted class at Conley Elementary School at Southwood	FCE Tallahassee, FL
2007-2010	Oehm, Gaiser, Dailey, Casal, Laroche	Coastlines GIS Institute	FCE, BES, MCR, SBC
2009 ASM	Oehm, Nation, Laroche, Casal	Workshop on LTER and social networking	FCE, CAP
2008-2009	Ogden	"From Yardsticks to Gyroscopes: Interdisciplinary Methods for Socioecological Research" graduate seminar	FCE, CAP, BES, Coweeta
2009 ASM	Oehm, Laroche, Casal	Workshop on GIS implementation in K-12 curriculum
Mar. 2011	Powell	Talk about the FCE LTER Program and Everglades National Park given to the entire 4th grade section at Conley Elementary School at Southwood	FCE Tallahassee, FL

Network Committee Membership
Date	Participants	Role
2007-present	Powell	Network Information Systems Advisory Committee (NISAC) member
2007-present	Powell	Information Management Committee member
2007-present	Oehm	LTER Network Education Committee
2007-2009	Gaiser	Science Council member
2006-2009	Gaiser, Price, Fourqurean, Gladwin, Heffernan, Ogden	Second FCE site representative to the LTER Science Council
2006-present	Ogden	Network Social Science Committee
2009	Gaiser, Oehm	LTER Network 2009 Planning Committee
2011-2012	Briceno, Gaiser	Participants in LTER National Climate Assessment committee
2011	Oehm, Dailey, Laroche	Participants in LTER Network Communication Committee
2011	Oehm, Dailey, Laroche	LTER Communication Network Website Subcommittee
2011	Oehm, Dailey	LTER Communication E-newsletter Subcommittee
2011	Oehm	LTER Communication Transformational Science Publication/Future Scenarios Subcommittee
2011	Oehm	LTER Communication Journalism Subcommittee
2011-2012	Oehm, Dailey	LTER Network 2012 ASM Planning Committee
2010-present	Troxler	US LTER Network International Committee

NSF LTER Renewal Panels
Date	Participant	Title
2009	Gaiser	LTER Network Office Renewal Panel
2008	Gaiser	NSF LTER Renewal Panel

Graduate Student Network Activities
Date	Participants	Activity	Venue	Sites
Sept. 2009	Koch, Losada, Munyon, Pisani	Identifying the benefits and barriers to graduate student cross-site socio-ecological research in urban systems	LTER Graduate Student Symposium, 2009 LTER ASM	FCE, CAP, BES

Information Management Network Activities
Date	Participants	Activity	Venue	Sites
Mar. 2007	Powell	Keynote Speaker at RED-MEX ILTER ASM	Autlán de Navarro, Jalisco, Mexico
June 2007	Powell	Niwot Ridge LTER 3 Year NSF Review Team	Boulder, CO	FCE, JRN
Aug. 2007	Powell	Information Managers Annual Meeting	San Jose, CA	All LTER Sites
Aug. 2008	Powell	Information Managers Annual Meeting	Albuquerque, NM	All LTER Sites
Mar. 2008	Powell	Network Information Systems Advisory Committee (NISAC) Meeting	Albuquerque, NM	Various Sites represented by members
Mar. 2009	Powell	Network Information Systems Advisory Committee (NISAC) Meeting	Albuquerque, NM	Various Sites represented by members
Sept. 2009	Powell	Information Managers Annual Meeting	Estes Park, CO	All LTER Sites
Sept. 2010	Powell, Rugge	Information Managers Annual Meeting	Kellogg Biological Station	All LTER Sites
Sept. 2010 - Sept. 2011	Powell	Co-Chair of Information Managers Unit Registry Working Group	Kellogg Biological Station	All LTER Sites
Mar. 2011	Powell	Network Information Systems Advisory Committee (NISAC) Meeting	Albuquerque, NM	Various Sites represented by members

Network News Articles
Date	Participants	Article
Spring 2007	K.K. Dowell, M.P. Tymchak, James Kathilankal, J.D. Fuentes, V. Engel, J.C. Zieman, D.L. Childers	Hurricane disturbance effects
Spring 2007	Oehm & Dailey	FCE's RESSt program gives students chance to shine
Spring 2008	Powell	FCE LTER website gets new look
Spring 2009	Powell	(DataBits) IMs from the file and server rooms, and to the home office and beyond: Reporting our experiences with video-teleconferencing and telecommuting
Spring 2008	Powell	(DataBits) The FCE LTER Website has a NEW look!
Fall 2009	Sarmiento, Barr, Engel, Fuentes, T.J. Smith, Zieman	Mangrove forest recovery in the Everglades following Hurricane Wilma
Fall 2009	Dailey, Oehm	FCE student researcher gets planet named after him
Spring 2010	Rehage, Gaiser, Heithaus, Ross, Ruiz	Effects of a rare cold snap on Everglades biota: what are the long-term consequences for the ecosystem?
Fall 2011	Dailey	LTER Network News enters new era