Short Stories About Long Term Research is a blog created by graduate students involved in long term ecological research as a way to share our research experiences with each other and the public. This page contains new submissions and the full archive of the SSALTER blog, which started in 2016 and was previously hosted at ssalter.blog. We encourage all graduate students to submit writing about long term research to the blog. See the submission guidelines for instructions.
by Jannine Chamorro, Moorea Coral Reef LTER Last September I had the opportunity to participate in a project studying coral bleaching in Mo’orea, French Polynesia. This was the first time I had ever worked in a remote field location. While initially the thought of flying to a place I could not see on a map… Read more »
by Ian Yesilonis (Baltimore Ecosystem Study LTER) Walking through the woods and observing the trees and animals is something I have always loved to do growing up in Baltimore. Our temperate deciduous forests in the city are typically smaller patches; however, one park, the Gwynns Falls/Leakin Park (1,216 acres), is quite large and also has big… Read more »
Laura Lilly takes us along on a sampling cruise with the California Current Ecosystem Long Term Ecological Research site!
Karla Jarecke and Adrian Gallo take us through research at the HJ Andrews Experimental Forest, home of the Andrews Forest LTER.
Adrianne Trusiak takes us through sampling to decipher the carbon cycle at Toolik Lake, home of the Arctic LTER.
Santa Neimane takes us through research in the Alps, part of a series of SSALTER blog posts from international long-term researchers!
Students from the Central Arizona-Phoenix, Sevilleta, and Jornada LTER visit and present posters at the CAP LTER All Scientists Meeting.
This month Cliff will be sharing some of his dissertation work from his beloved alpine field site at the Niwot Ridge LTER site in the Colorado Rocky Mountains.
Jen Holzer views Scotland through the eyes of an Israeli Scientist for this international edition of the SSALTER Blog.
Shabnam G. Farahani takes to Braila Island on the Danube River in this SSALTER Blog post, where we explore stoichiometry.
We go underground with Vojkan Gavojić with this edition of the SSALTER Blog, learning about cave research in the Postojna-Planina cave system
Natural cycles have patterns, rhythms, similar to music. Take a dive into these rhythms with Kelly Bisson for this SSALTER Blog eduition!