Palmer LTER Timeline

2011

  • PAL cruise/annual: Jan-Feb 11
  • LMG defeats Rothera in soccer, 1-0 (Photo)
  • Palmer Station field season: Oct 11 - Mar 12
  • PAL Annual Meeting, Woods Hole, MA
  • PAL Information Management Component change (J. Conners replaces K. Baker)
  • Mid-term external review and site visit: Dec. 11

2010

  • PAL cruise/annual: Jan-Feb 10
  • Palmer Station field season: Oct 10 - Mar 11
  • PAL Annual Meeting, Sheridan, MT
  • National Academy Workshop, Frontiers in Understanding Climate Change and Polar Ecosystems (Ducklow, Stammerjohn, Fraser)

2009

  • PAL cruise/annual: Jan-Feb 09
  • Palmer Station field season: Oct 09 - Mar 10
  • PAL Annual Meeting, Boulder, CO & LTER All-Scientists Mtg, Estes Park
  • Disappearing Cryosphere LTER Cross-site workshop, Woods Hole MA.

2008

  • PAL cruise/annual: Jan-Feb 08
  • Palmer Station field season: Oct 08 - Mar 09
  • PAL Annual Meeting, Denver, CO
  • PAL LTER fourth cycle NSF funding begins (2008-2014)
  • PAL Host Institution moves from VIMS to MBL
  • PAL Phytoplankton Component change (O. Schofield PI; replacing M. Vernet)
  • PAL Zooplankton Component change (D. Steinberg PI; replacing R. Ross/L. Quetin)
  • PAL Modeling Component added (S. Doney)
  • PAL Sea Ice/Climate Component added (S. Stammerjohn, PI)
  • PAL-BAS Rothera Time Series Component change (M.Meredith replaces A. Clarke)
  • Antarctic Social Sciences Workshop, Baltimore MD

2007

  • PAL cruise/annual: Jan-Feb 07: Rutgers SLOCUM Glider deployed
  • Palmer Station field season: Oct 07 Ð Mar 08
  • PAL Annual Meeting, MBL (Woods Hole)
  • LTER Decadal Plan

2006

  • PAL cruise/annual: Jan-Feb 06
  • Palmer Station field season: Sep 06 Ð Mar 07
  • Palmer LTER NSF Site Review at VIMS, May 06
  • LTER All-Scientists Meeting, Estes Park
  • First Joint PAL-MCM Scientific Workshop, NREL/CSU Sep 06
  • PAL Annual Meeting, Estes Park
  • Antarctic Peninsula Climate Variability Workshop, (NSDIC, Boulder, CO)

2005

  • PAL cruise/annual: Jan-Feb 05
  • Palmer Staton field season: Oct 05 - Mar 06
  • Palmer LTER site review at Palmer Station: site team fails to reach Station due to heavy ice, site visit rescheduled for 2006.
  • PAL Annual Meeting, Scripps (La Jolla)

2004

  • PAL cruise/annual: Jan-Feb 04
  • Palmer Station field season: Oct 04 Ð Apr 05
  • PAL Annual Meeting, London, UK
  • Antarctic Peninsula Climate Variability Workshop, (Cambridge, UK)

2003

2002

  • PAL LTER third cycle NSF funding begins (2002-2008)
  • PAL Host Institution moves from UCSB to VIMS
  • Palmer field season: Sep 02 - Mar 03
  • PAL Annual Meeting, Duck, NC
  • PAL added ecology component, PI Andrew Clark, BAS
  • PAL commences partnership with British Antarctic Survey / Rothera Time Series
  • PAL cruise/annual: Jan-Feb 02
  • PAL GLOBEC/LTER cruises: Feb-Sep 2002

2001

  • PAL Microbial Loop Component Transition begins (D.Karl to H.Ducklow)
  • PAL cruise/annual: Jan-Feb 01
  • PAL cruise/process ice winter retreat: Sep 01
  • Palmer field season: Oct 01 - Mar 02
  • PAL Lead PI transition (R.Smith to H.Ducklow)
  • PAL GLOBEC cruises with PAL participation: Mar-Sep 2001

2000

1999

  • PAL cruise/annual: Jan-Feb 99
  • Palmer field season: Oct 99 - Mar 00
  • PAL original Phys Oceanography component ends (E.Hofmann/J.Klinck)
  • PAL cruise/ice: Jun 99
  • Palmer LTER site review at UCSB
  • PAL modeling: statistical grid analysis initiated

1998

  • PAL cruise/annual: Jan 98, interim vessel
  • PAL cruise/annual: Jan-Feb 98, LMGould (Gould replaces Polar Duke)
  • Palmer field season: Oct 98 - Apr 99
  • PAL Phys Oceanography component added (D.Martinson, PI)

1997

  • PAL LTER second cycle NSF funding begins (1997-2002)
  • PAL cruise/annual: Jan-Feb 97
  • Palmer field season: Oct 97 - Apr 98
  • PAL host LTER Pre-archeoclimatology Workshop
  • PAL host LTER Paleo-history Workshop
  • PAL host LTER Coordinating Committee Meeting
  • LTER All Scientists Symposium, Albuquerque

1996

  • PAL cruise/annual: Jan-Feb 96
  • AWS Hugo Isldo temp probe installation
  • PAL Data policy change: OPP/NSF data criteria
  • Palmer field season: Sep 96 - Apr 97

1995

  • PAL lead PI rotation to Raymond Smith
  • PAL cruise/annual: Jan-Feb 95
  • PAL cruise/annual: picket line sampling added
  • Palmer field season: Oct 95 - Mar 96

1994

  • Site withdrawn (NIN)
  • PAL cruise/annual: Jan-Feb 94 - reduced personnel test; no 200 line
  • Palmer LTER site review at UCSB & Palmer Station
  • Palmer field season: Oct 94 - Mar 95
  • AWS Hugo Isldo weather station installed
  • PAL Phytoplankton Component change (M.Vernet PI; B.Prezelin resign)

1993

1992

  • New site added (MCM)
  • Palmer field season: Oct 92 - Mar 93
  • AWS Bonaparte Point weather station installed
  • Microbial Component added (D.Karl PI)
  • Datamanger designated (K.Baker)

1991

  • PAL Cruise/annual: PAL grid established
  • PAL cruise/process: seasonal Nov 91
  • Palmer field season: Oct 91 - Mar 92

1990

  • Second all scientists meeting, Estes Park, CO
  • New site added (PAL)
  • PAL LTER first cycle NSF funding begins (1990-1996)
  • Lead PI Robin Ross & Langdon Quetin

1989

  • Network Office established on Univ. of Washington Campus

1988

  • LTER sites withdrawn (OKE,ILR)
  • Three sites added (LUQ,SEV,HFR)
  • Minimum Standard Installation (MSI) developed

1987

  • Five additional sites added (ARC,BNZ,HBR,KBS,VCR)
  • LTER Network News, first issue

1985

  • First all scientists meeting, Fort Collins, CO

1982

  • First data management symposium in Illinois

1980

  • Five additional sites added (CPR,OKE,ILR,CDR,JRN)

1979

  • First LTER set of six sites funded (NTL,AND,CWT,KNZ,NIN,NWT)