Mission
Coweeta LTER's educational and outreach efforts are focused on utilizing the LTER programs and network to promote teaching, training, and wise management of earth’s ecosystems utilizing the value of long term ecological research.

Commitment to Mentoring Students
Graduate and undergraduate mentoring and training in ecology are highly visible products of the Coweeta LTER program. The precedent of including students in all aspects of the field and laboratory research and publication of results has been established since 1937,  when the first Coweeta graduate student produced their graduate thesis.

Schoolyard Program
Coweeta Hydrologic Laboratory in western North Carolina is one of twenty-six sites in the Long Term Ecological Research (LTER) Network. The long-term approach to research on the processes of ecological science provides a unique opportunity for educational experiences. The 10-year review of the LTER Network challenged the network to assume a broader role in environmental education.

Goals
1) Provide students a setting to develop field, laboratory, and experimental design methods to hypothesize and test questions regarding ecological phenomena

2) Provide students, managers, scientists, political leaders, and public interest groups a first hand view of the value and results of ecological experiments

3) Provide direct learning experiences about long term ecological studies to middle school, high school, community college students, and their instructors.

4) Provide private, state, and federal land and water resource managers a direct link to scientists and research findings for new and innovative tools to manage their resources.