Achievement

For the fifth year, Ecosystem Informatics IGERT students from all five cohorts, IGERT PIs, and many faculty advisors joined together in the annual boot camp experience, a five-day field course at the magnificent old-growth forest and stream ecosystems of the HJ Andrews Experimental Forest and NSF-funded LTER site. The boot camp involves visiting study sites where long-term ecosystem experiments are underway, and discussing the ecological mathematical, an computer science aspects of the work underway. This year we visited long-term watershed experiments, a 200-year log decomposition experiment, and a fire tower, and discussed mathematical and computer science problems involving ecosystem fluxes.