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Travel and Synthesis Opportunities: LTER Community Call

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January 22, 2025 @ 9:00 am-10:00 am –

The LNO is announcing two new opportunities intended to spark and facilitate collaboration among LTER sites and between LTER and the broader ecological research community. The January Community Call offers an opportunity to learn more about both types of opportunities and to ask any questions that may arise.

The most recent call for synthesis proposals follows the established pattern of funded working groups, but is only open to shorter-term SPARC working groups (Scientific Peers Advancing Collaboration). Longer, full working groups will be funded in a 2026 RFP.

Site exchange opportunities support visits to LTER sites or visits by LTER personnel to analogous sites elsewhere for the purpose of developing a collaborative research project, sharing complex lab and field methods, intensive cooperation on joint projects, or intensive mentoring.

Register now and add the invitation to your calendar in order to learn more about these exciting opportunities.

LTER Education & Engagement Committee Monthly Meeting

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February 6, 2025 @ 12:00 pm-1:00 pm –

LTER recognizes the value of sustained interactions between students, teachers, and scientists, and strives to integrate LTER science with K-12 education. Most LTER sites conduct individual programs at the local level, and the network supports centralized approaches to educational initiatives.

The LTER Education and Engagement Committee meets monthly:

First Thursday of each month at
Noon Pacific Time / 3:00 p.m. Eastern Time

2024 Agenda/Notes document (current committee members can find the zoom link here)
Education and Engagement Committee Web Page
Join email list here (education@lternet.edu)
LTER Forum Group

 

IM Executive Team Meeting

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February 17, 2025 @ 9:30 am-11:00 am –

Each third Monday of the month at 9:30 am PT / 12:30  pm ET

The Information Management Committee Executive Team meets monthly and is responsible for tracking working group progress, liaising with the Environmental Data Initiative, the LTER Executive Board, the LTER Network Office, and developing agendas for the IM Virtual watercoolers.

Members of the IM Executive Team may find the meeting Zoom link on the shared google drive

Google Drive IMExec meeting notes

Trello Board: https://trello.com/b/FQq9KYib/imexec

Recent Synthesis Results: LTER Community Call

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February 26, 2025 @ 9:00 am-10:00 am – For the February LTER Community call, we’ll be hearing from two synthesis groups with exciting new publications. Variations in climate, hydrology, and nutrients drive different seasonal patterns in river Si concentrations across biomes of North America Dr. Joanna Carey and Dr. KathiJo Jankowski, U.S. Geological Survey From poles to tropics: A multi-biome synthesis investigating the […]

LTER Education & Engagement Committee Monthly Meeting

Posted

March 6, 2025 @ 12:00 pm-1:00 pm –

LTER recognizes the value of sustained interactions between students, teachers, and scientists, and strives to integrate LTER science with K-12 education. Most LTER sites conduct individual programs at the local level, and the network supports centralized approaches to educational initiatives.

The LTER Education and Engagement Committee meets monthly:

First Thursday of each month at
Noon Pacific Time / 3:00 p.m. Eastern Time

2024 Agenda/Notes document (current committee members can find the zoom link here)
Education and Engagement Committee Web Page
Join email list here (education@lternet.edu)
LTER Forum Group

 

LTER Executive Board

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March 10, 2025 @ 1:00 pm-2:00 pm – LTER Executive Board Meeting 2025 Agenda and Notes (only accessible to Executive Board Members)

Fieldwork Initiative FIEST Training

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March 13, 2025 @ 10:00 am-12:00 pm –

The FIEST Training is designed to prepare researchers for the challenges they may encounter during fieldwork. This program emphasizes the importance of personal safety and maintaining well-being while conducting research in various environments.

Participants in the Fieldwork Initiative’s Fieldwork Initiative Ethics and Safety Training (FIEST) gain practical tools to identify, mitigate, and respond to risks in fieldwork environments. The training provides structured risk assessment frameworks, equipping organizations with protocols to address logistical, legal, and ethical challenges in remote or high-risk research settings. It enhances incident preparedness by establishing clear procedures for handling emergencies, misconduct, or security threats.

FIEST also strengthens fieldwork management efficiency by standardizing reporting mechanisms and safety protocols, ensuring that research teams operate within best practices that minimize risk exposure. The program includes scenario-based training modules, enabling participants to apply risk management principles to real-world fieldwork conditions, improving decision-making under unpredictable circumstances.

IM Executive Team Meeting

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March 17, 2025 @ 9:30 am-11:00 am –

Each third Monday of the month at 9:30 am PT / 12:30  pm ET

The Information Management Committee Executive Team meets monthly and is responsible for tracking working group progress, liaising with the Environmental Data Initiative, the LTER Executive Board, the LTER Network Office, and developing agendas for the IM Virtual watercoolers.

Members of the IM Executive Team may find the meeting Zoom link on the shared google drive

Google Drive IMExec meeting notes

Trello Board: https://trello.com/b/FQq9KYib/imexec

Recruiting and Retaining Scientists in the LTER: How to find and keep the best and brightest!

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March 26, 2025 @ 9:00 am-10:00 am –

Recruiting and Retaining Scientists in the LTER: How to find and keep the best and brightest!

LTER Community Call hosted by the GSC + BP committees 

When: March 26 at 9am PT/10am MT/ 11am CT/12pm ET

Results from the LTER Network’s recent climate survey showed that sites’ personnel become more uniform as their tenure increases. This mirrors trends within the discipline of ecology – and broadly within STEM – where senior leadership often does not represent the field at large. A significant pool of early-career ecologists exists across the LTER Network, and several LTER sites have drawn from this pool to introduce new perspectives to their co-PI teams and collaborative projects. This pool of researchers presents an opportunity to broaden participation within LTER leadership at the site and network levels by adjusting our recruitment practices and retention to find and keep the best and brightest scientists in the field.

The Graduate Student and Broadening Participation Committees will facilitate a discussion-based community call to crowdsource resources and strategies to improve recruitment practices and retention across LTER sites. The discussion will focus on how to improve recruitment and retention via  official procedural changes (e.g. modifying recruitment practices) or simple, personal changes (providing resources to more widely distribute job postings). This community call will begin with a short presentation about the importance of adjusting recruitment processes to reach a broader audience and share simple steps we can all take toward this goal. Participants will then be invited to participate in breakout groups to discuss specific topics within recruitment and retention. These discussions will be used to produce a “Recruitment and Retention Handbook” to be shared across the LTER Network.

Please join us for a lively conversation – bring your ideas, success stories, and favorite resources to share how we can collectively work to recruit and retain the best and brightest across the LTER network and our broader scientific fields!

Fieldwork Initiative FIEST Training

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April 3, 2025 @ 10:00 am-12:00 pm –

The FIEST Training is designed to prepare researchers for the challenges they may encounter during fieldwork. This program emphasizes the importance of personal safety and maintaining well-being while conducting research in various environments.

Participants in the Fieldwork Initiative’s Fieldwork Initiative Ethics and Safety Training (FIEST) gain practical tools to identify, mitigate, and respond to risks in fieldwork environments. The training provides structured risk assessment frameworks, equipping organizations with protocols to address logistical, legal, and ethical challenges in remote or high-risk research settings. It enhances incident preparedness by establishing clear procedures for handling emergencies, misconduct, or security threats.

FIEST also strengthens fieldwork management efficiency by standardizing reporting mechanisms and safety protocols, ensuring that research teams operate within best practices that minimize risk exposure. The program includes scenario-based training modules, enabling participants to apply risk management principles to real-world fieldwork conditions, improving decision-making under unpredictable circumstances.