Our spring transect cruise (Yes!) is rolling along. Follow the RV Endeavor, our team, and the offshore weather marineops.gso.uri.edu/EndeavorNow
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To build data literacy skills of all ages, visitors to the Buttonwood Park Zoo helped us make a data quipu. Colored fabric strips represent mean annual SST and beads on the strips represent the mean lat of the lobster catch (NMFS trawl survey data) US LTER U.S. National Science Foundation

Get a feel for LTER synthesis from our new video. Maybe you'll be inspired to submit a proposal to our open call: lternet.edu/rfp-2024/ Thanks! @nsf
LTER Synthesis Science: using existing data for new ecological insight youtu.be/O-0sk6CPqIw?si… via YouTube
NEON Critical Zone Collaborative Network (CZNet)

WOW, I’m honored and humbled to be recognized by Ecological Society and with such a rockstar group of scientists! As always, this truly highlights my amazing collaborators (technicians, post-docs, land managers, students, science BFFs) working to the big goal of #ScienceMakingaDifference .

A ‘Green Glacier’ of trees and shrubs is burying prairies, threatening ranchers and wildlife kcur.org/news/2024-04-2…

The strategic plan for the USDA Long-Term Agroecosystem Research Network US LTAR is published. See what are working on here: ltar.ars.usda.gov/strategic-plan/ Agricultural Research Service US LTER

It's been a tough few years for the Andrews Forest HJ Andrews Experimental Forest and US LTER with the fires, and the Oregon State Foundation & Alumni Association OSU Foundation is helping us recover. Please consider contributing: damproudday.org/campaigns/h-j-…

Did you know that the US LTER Network is a member of a larger, international network? Join our community call on April 24 (lternet.edu/events/24april…) to learn about the ILTER and their triennial Open Science Conference ilter2024.org in Xishuangbanna, China.

I couldn’t be more excited as a Chapter Lead for the first-ever National Nature Assessment! It’s like we’re assembling a group of super heroes! Every day is Earth Day! #NNA1 #EarthDay2024 U.S. Global Change Research Program

To help inform stewardship of the earth's ecosystems, particularly now in the face of climate change, we need to know how they function - how they offer mitigation and how they are threatened. That's part of our mission. Because #EveryDayIsEarthDay US LTER
Marine Biological Laboratory (MBL) U.S. National Science Foundation

Ecoss grad student Nick Link has an article out in the LTER publication! Check out his write up on Mary Bryan Barksdale and her team's research on Virginia's migrating barrier islands and how they're turning carbon 'sinks to sources.' lternet.edu/stories/barrie… US LTER NAU

A #NSFfunded researcher @whoi collected this 'spaghetti worm” (marine polychaete) on a research cruise to NSF’s Northeast U.S. Shelf Long-Term Ecological Research Station.

Learn more about NSF’s US LTER: bit.ly/3vNaCLy

📷: Daniel Cojanu/WHOI

This Friday at 10 am PT hear Kelso Harper present on communicating science through photos, videos, and other media!

Kelso's presentation will be followed by a 30 minute show and tell.

Register here: lternet.edu/stories/introd…

Looking for advice communicating science across multiple media types?

Kelso Harper, multimedia specialist for Scientific American, presents the next LTER visual Media Series webinar on April 19th at 9am PT. Should be an awesome event!

Register here: lternet.edu/events/lter-vm…

Awesome fellowship/residency opportunity for artists, storytellers, creative scholars to engage with the post-fire landscape at Andrews Forest, a US LTER site in the old-growth forests of Oregon's Cascade Mountains. Apps due May 3. prax.oregonstate.edu/residencies/op…

Really excited to share our recent paper on reciprocal litter transplants in coastal wetlands! Seawater drove breakdown more than litter chemistry. FCE LTER US LTER FIU College of Arts, Sciences & Education FIU Institute of Environment #NSFfunded
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Join my lab! I’m hiring another lab manager. Go to careers.FIU.edu Position Title: Lab Manager II – Institute of Environment
Job Opening ID: 531912 FIU Institute of Environment FIU College of Arts, Sciences & Education FCE LTER US LTER

We're thrilled to see that a paper by MSP LTER PhD student Charlotte Devitz (Amy-Charlotte Devitz) was the US LTER's Feb DEIA Resource of the Month. The paper explores strategies for establishing Equipment Repositories for #Accessibility at research sites: academic.oup.com/icb/article/63…

Interested in synthesis science at the LTER?

We're developing a synthesis-focused grad course at the LTER, and we need your feedback!

Hear our plans at the LTER Community Call this Wednesday, March 27 @ 9am PT.

Register: lternet.edu/stories/lter-c…