Objective:
Provide leadership and coordination for the development of TEAM, the Terestrial Ecosystems Assessment Model.

Approach:
These resources will constitute a revolving fund to be established and maintained at Headquarters to provide temporary resources to fill knowledge gaps, to acquire needed external support, and to fund workshops and symposia. The fund will also support efforts to retrieve data and useable model components that already exist. Original start and termination dates 1/8/93 through 1/7/98. Extended from 1/8/98-1/7/03 for another five years. Changing start and term dates from 1/8/03-1/7/08. Extending for an additional 5 years. klj