the School of Global Environmental Sustainability is an umbrella organization that encompasses all environmental education and research at Colorado State Univ. Diana Wall is it's founding director.
Diana Wall was featured as one of the 8 environmental scientists to comment on what was learned over the past 25 years and what is expected in the next 25 years by DISCOVER magazine (April, 2005 issue).
The Wormherders' research was featured in another book by published by Island Press entitled Under Ground: How creatures of mud and dirt shape our world, by Yvonne Baskin.
Berry Lyons and Andrew Fountain were both elected Fellows of the Geological Society of America and were acknowledged at the Society's annual meeting on October 15.
Diana Wall and Andrew Fountain have begun serving 3 year appointments to the NRC/NAS's Polar Research Board. Berry Lyons has just rotated off the board.
All MCM metadata is now in the LTER Network-standardized format, EML (Ecological Metadata Language). This is a big step towards LTER network-wide data synthesis.