Site Exchanges
February 11, 2026 @ 9:00 am-10:00 am –
Each year, the LTER Network Office offers opportunities for researchers, students, or staff to propose a project that requires travel to another site. Projects include piloting cross-site sampling efforts, developing distributed experiments, sharing of lab and field methods, cooperating on joint projects, shadowing another individual, and intensive mentoring.
The community call will include an overview of the opportunity and the chance to hear from 2025 recipients about their projects:
- Mingyu Zhang, a doctoral student with Dr. Peter Raymond at the Plum Island LTER, traveled to the Virginia Coast Reserve LTER to improve models of carbon transport and compare methods for measuring air-water gas exchange.
- Dr. Marguerite Mauritz, an investigator at Jornada LTER, will spent 10 days working with Dr. Marcie Litvak at the Sevilleta LTER to improve techniques for measuring CO2 exchange in drylands.
- Alexandra Cabanelas Bermudez, a doctoral student with Dr. Heidi Sosik at the Northeast Shelf LTER will traveled to the California Current LTER to learn the ZooScan plankton imaging system.
- Margaret Baker, a doctoral student with Sven Kranz at the California Current LTER, travelled to Dr. Tom Kelly’s lab at the Northern Gulf of Alaska LTER to build skill in – and improve tools for using – bio-optical sensors in marine systems.
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The LTER monthly community call provides an opportunity to hold seminars, discussions, and learning opportunities of relevance to the broad LTER research community. These may include research seminars, discussions of emerging projects and methods, or the occasional organizational update.
