Responsibilities
- Familiarize yourself with FCE LTER Project Administration & Management Guidelines and the FCE LTER Data Policy as the first deals with program governance and the second deals with our data policies.
- Get acquainted with the FCE LTER website and check this site regularly for new FCE shared data and information on upcoming meetings, seminars, science gatherings, and other FCE LTER activities and news.
- Decide which Research Working Group you wish to be involved with, and contact a Working Group leader and Evelyn Gaiser with your decision.
- Submit a summary of your FCE LTER activities and findings to your working group leaders every year for the annual report.
- You must be included on the main FCE LTER Everglades National Park permit or another Everglades National Park permit in order to access FCE sampling sites. If your name is included on the main permit, you are responsible for following all of the regulations stated in the permit. If your contact information changes or someone in your research group needs to be added to the main FCE LTER permit, please ask them to complete an Emergency Contact Form and send it to Mike Rugge (ruggem@fiu.edu).
Please note that if your proposed research is not already included in the main FCE LTER permit OR if it's funded by a source other than the FCE LTER grant, you will need to apply for a separate permit. You can find information about how to apply for a permit and an online application at https://irma.nps.gov/rprs/. - Submit your
personnel information to Mike Rugge, the FCE Project Manager, so that he may enter your information into the FCE Oracle database and make your contact information available via our website.Personnel information includesmailing address and phone numbers, affiliations, research interests, links to a personal web page if available, FCE working group memberships and a digital photo to display on our Researcher Profiles web page (for example, see Evelyn Gaiser's page). - If you have research personnel, such as field and laboratory technicians and students, involved with your prospective FCE LTER research, please send their contact information to Mike Rugge, the FCE Project Manager, so that he may add these new additions to the personnel database. You will be responsible for keeping your personnel information updated as necessary.
- If you have graduate students, please encourage them to get involved with the FCE LTER Student Organization (see Students). When students conducting FCE research complete degrees, please submit their thesis or dissertation citation information to the FCE Project Manager, Mike Rugge.