LTER Photo Contest, 2025

Introducing the LTER Photo Contest, 2025! Spurred on by the great images submitted last year and the fierce site vs. site competition that took place on our Instagram page to pick a winner, we’re back with a new theme!
Submissions open until October 3, 2025.

Upcoming LTER Community Calls

Upcoming Events

Featured Events

October 24, 2025: Co-creating knowledge: a panel discussion on community-inspired research across long-term ecological studies

Committee Meetings

October 20, 2025: IM Executive Team Meeting
October 20, 2025: Information Management Virtual Water Cooler
October 21, 2025: Broadening Participation Committee
November 6, 2025: LTER Education & Outreach Committee Monthly Meeting
November 10, 2025: Information Management Virtual Water Cooler
November 10, 2025: LTER Executive Board
November 17, 2025: IM Executive Team Meeting
November 18, 2025: Broadening Participation Committee
December 4, 2025: LTER Education & Outreach Committee Monthly Meeting

Who We Are

We are over 2000 researchers at 27 sites who apply long-term observation, experiments, and modeling to understand how ecological systems function over decades. Read All…

Research

LTER research integrates many disciplines to understand ecological processes as they play out at individual sites, while synthetic studies reveal broader principles that operate at a global scale. Read All…