Documents — LTER Network

The 2026-2035 LTER Network Strategic plan focuses on identifying and prioritizing the activities that require a network. This is not a plan for site activities, nor even a plan for the Network Office. Instead, we started with the question: “What questions can we answer...

The bylaws revision was approved March 4, 2026, by affirmative vote of 24 out of 26 active lead principal investigators. Changes in this revision: Due to changes in the way that the U. S. National Science Foundation (NSF) manages the LTER Network, with more emphasis on...

In Spring of 2024, the Long Term Ecological Research (LTER) Broadening Participation Committee (BPC) and the LTER Network Office collaborated on a network-wide survey assessing the current workplace climate and culture across LTER sites. Overall, our results indicate th...

In the attached revision, bylaws have been updated to reflect the current practice of the LTER Network, ahead of a planning process launched in Summer, 2024. Expect a further set of revisions following the planning process (Spring/Summer 2025). Reviewed and approved at...

The attached response to the report of the Fourth Decadal Review Committee was prepared by a working group of the LTER Executive Board with major input from the entire Executive Board. A draft version of the response was circulated to each of the representative committe...

The fourth decadal review report on the LTER Network was commissioned by the advisory committee to the Biological Sciences directorate at the National Science Foundation (the BIO AC), which appointed a working group to respond to the charge described in the report. The...

The 2022 renewal solicitation for existing LTER sites (NSF document # 22543).

We are asking sites to provide a BibTex file of publications and products that could not have been produced without LTER support. Sites maintain records of their publications in different systems (Zotero, DEIMS, EndNote, custom databases), but everyone should be able to...

Statement of Task: The overall goal of the Task Force was to develop findings and recommendations pertinent to the Next Generation of the LTER Network Office (NG-LNO), with particular attention to potential future developments in information technology. The specific obj...

NSF solicitation NSF19544. Open competition for LTER Network Coordination Office, awarded to UCSB/NCEAS, which had supported the LTER Network Communications Office from 2015-2019 under a grant.

National Science Foundation solicitation NSF19594. Context: Funding for the Baltimore site was not renewed in 2019. Baltimore was winding down as this solicitation was issued.

The attached self-study document was prepared by the self-study committee of the LTER Network in advance of the 4th decadal review of the program and submitted to NSF on October 5, 2019. Self Study Document Charge to the Committee Cognizant NSF Program Officers are Dan...

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