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March 19, 2025-March 17, 2027 @ 11:00 am-12:00 pm – The LTER Graduate Student Representatives meet on the third Wednesday of each month at 11 a.m. Pacific Time (2 p.m. ET). Graduate student projects center around building community across the LTER Network and expanding career and networking opportunities for early career professionals. Shared Google Drive (LTER Grad reps may request access from a google-associated email […]
September 16, 2025-September 21, 2027 @ 12:00 pm-1:00 pm –
Safety and Teamwork Committee Meeting
The LTER safety and teamwork committee provides concrete and deliberate actions and resources at individual sites and at the network-level to bring new talent into ecology and LTER and ensure that all LTER community members have the tools and resources to work safely and as part of a cohesive team, where they can bring their full selves and count on being treated with respect.
As a reminder, our agenda and links live here: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1_D1FnCzTofZ6q4r4LxFbrkNbrSQNHERG9o9ZGDsQZ3o/edit?usp=sharing
Committee members can retrieve the meeting link at that location. The committee is open to interested network members. To request access, visit the google group “about” page and click the blue “Join” button.
October 13, 2025-October 11, 2027 @ 12:00 pm-1:00 pm – The LTER Information Managers meet monthly to share resources, make plans and work on projects together. For more information about the current activities of the LTER IM Committee, please visit the committee’s web page. For information on IM practices and policies, see the LTER IM Manual. VWC Notes and recordings (members only)
April 2, 2026-April 1, 2027 @ 12:00 pm-1:00 pm –
The LTER Education and Outreach Committee meets on the first Thursday of each month to exchange information, ideas, and inspiration. Whether you are formally an education/outreach manager or a grad student, faculty or researcher with an interest in education and engagement at LTER sites, please join us.
Find additional information on the Education/Outreach Committee page, or reach out to committee chairs or the LTER Network Office to learn more. Request to join the Education/Outreach Committee Mailing list for access to calendar invitations and updates.
June 10, 2026 @ 9:00 am-10:00 am –
Meagan Ford Oldfather PhD, USGS, North Central Climate Adaptation Science Center and
Dr. Sarah Weiskopf USGS National Climate Adaptation Science Center
Despite widespread recommendations for climate adaptation, there is little evidence supporting the efficacy of specific management actions in reducing the negative ecological consequences of climate change, leaving managers with limited guidance to support decision-making. Assessing ecological efficacy of adaptation actions, that is, to what degree actions achieve natural resource conservation objectives under a changing climate (hereafter “ecological adaptation efficacy”) presents unique challenges, including a lack of representative counterfactuals, non-stationarity of climate and ecological processes, and a large range of relevant temporal and spatial scales. We review multiple approaches that can be used to advance the methodology of and build the evidence base for ecological adaptation efficacy despite these challenges. These approaches include 1) experiments where climate variables are manipulated to assess the impacts of management actions; 2) process-based models of how management alternatives may affect a particular system; and 3) in-situ assessment of implemented management actions both at single sites and multiple comparative sites. For each approach, we consider the assumptions, data needs, and implications for inference. We highlight examples from different ecosystems and adaptation approaches to demonstrate how meaningful efficacy analyses can be achieved, even with limited data. Finally, we lay out future research directions to support assessments of ecological efficacy of climate adaptation actions.
Meagan Oldfather is a Biologist with the USGS North Central Climate Adaptation Science Center. Meagan investigates vegetation responses to changing climate in topographically complex and arid systems, including in the Great Basin and the Colorado Rockies. Her field-based, quantitative, and synthesis-based work is motivated by supporting climate adaptation in the North Central region. She has expertise in both population biology and community ecology and is associated with the Niwot Ridge Long-term Ecological Research and GLORIA Great Basin programs.
Sarah Weiskopf is a Research Ecologist at the National Climate Adaptation Science Center, where she works at the interface between ecological research and biodiversity and conservation policy. Her research focuses on the responses of ecosystems and ecosystem services to global change, with specific focus on species range shifts, biodiversity modeling, and science synthesis.
The LTER monthly community call provides an opportunity to hold seminars, discussions, and learning opportunities of relevance to the broad LTER research community.
July 8, 2026 @ 9:00 am-10:00 am –
Are you a new graduate student, undergraduate, investigator, or staff member at an LTER site? After you get settled into your local site, join us to learn about the integrative science and opportunities that being part of a national network can open up. The LTER network onboarding provides a brief introduction to the immense variety of research that is carried out across the Network. We’ll also touch on where to find network-level resources and offer an introduction to the data systems of the LTER Network.
