eLTER presents GERI achievements at the American Geophysical Union’s Meeting

The American Geophysical Union (AGU) fall meeting 2020 was held between 1-17 December as an entirely virtual event.

As 1 of 6 partners in the Global Ecosystem Research Initiative (GERI) eLTER presented GERI achievements and plans in a session on “Global Environmental Measurement and Monitoring Technologies: Current Capabilities and Future Needs”.

One of the highlights reported by Michael Mirtl was the completion of the GERI Memorandum of Cooperation signing process by December 2020.In this MoC NEON (USA), TERN (Australia), CERN (China), SAEON (South Africa) and ICOS & eLTER (Europe) agree on objectives like joint documentation of their site networks and making data interoperable.