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Themed Collection on North American Drylands

Announcing new themed collection in Cambridge Prisms-Drylands focused on North American drylands (Collection Link). The...

09/29/26

2026 Photo Contest

The 2026 LTER Photo Contest is brought to you by the LTER Graduate Student Committee!...

09/28/26

Young Voices of Science: 2026 applications open

The application period for the Fall 2026 Young Voices of Science Program runs Wednesday, August...

08/11/26

Call for proposals: Global ILTER Activity 2026

The International LTER Network (ILTER) has opened the first-stage call for its first globally coordinated...

08/11/26

Call for Proposals: 4th ILTER Open Science Meeting (OSM) 2027

The 4th ILTER Open Science Meeting (OSM), themed "Unity in Diversity: Celebrating Long-term Resilience Across...

08/11/26

Reminder: Synthesis RFP deadline September 16

The Long Term Ecological Research (LTER) Network Office seeks proposals for synthesis working groups that...

08/11/26

LTER at ESA, 2026

The LTER Network always puts in a strong showing at the Ecological Society of America...

07/25/26

2026 Site Exchanges Announced

Site exchanges are designed to facilitate between-site comparisons and support the development of cross-site projects....

06/19/26

Summer Network-wide Postcard Exchange

Who doesn't like getting postcards? Sign up to exchange postcards with someone at another LTER...

06/19/26

ILTER Webinar: Resolving and scaling litter decomposition controls from leaf to landscape

This webinar will introduce the NSF-funded Decomposition Across Dtylands (DeAD)project, which combines field experiments, long-term...

05/06/26

News Stories

Lessons Learned from Spending a Month at Sea

Short Stories About Long Term Research

A common misconception is that an oceanographer’s field days exclusively involve diving in brightly colored coral reefs in...

08/28/26

Studying post-fire Snowpack at the H.J. Andrews Experimental Forest

Short Stories About Long Term Research

As wildfires continue to reshape forested landscapes across the western United States, understanding their impact on snowpack and...

06/17/26

2026 Site Exchanges Announced

Announcement,Short Stories About Long Term Research

Site exchanges are designed to facilitate between-site comparisons and support the development of cross-site projects. The 2026 awardees...

06/16/26

The caddisfly stole my heart

Education

Caroline McCoy's two-years as an ARETS Fellow impacted and expanded her approach to teaching science profoundly. I was...

06/03/26

What would my project be?

ARET,Education

A Minnesota teacher learns about ecological phenomena in the Arctic and connects them to her students -- igniting...

05/20/26

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