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LTER Arts & Sciences

Published January 1, 2019

An abstract landscape at the Hubbard Brook Experimental Forest takes inspiration from the natural forest landscape with geometric greens, blues, and browns streaked with dark green, purple, yellow, and red vertical stripes.
Ecology Extended: Hubbard Brook Experimental Forest
Photographer Edward Sturr documenting a controlled burn. Photo: Elizabeth Dodd
Fire and Form on the Konza Prairie (KNZ)
Adam’s Research 8 x 10 – Caitlin Barale Potter
Artist in Residence Program (CDR): Cedar Creek Reflections
The Normalization of Simulated Nature (#2) Sevilleta National Wildlife Refuge, 2018. Archival inkjet print by Sarah Rose
The Normalization of Simulated Nature (SEV)
Recording above water sounds of an oyster reef. Photo: Cora Ann Johnston
Environmental Humanities Conservatory (VCR)
Save our Stream cover – Tucker
Save Our Stream (PIE)
Wright Valley by Alan Campbell, NSF Antarctic Artists and Writers Fellow (1988,1989, 1993, 2005)
NSF Antarctic Artists & Writers Program (MCM)
Jellyfish and Krill in Antarctica by Cynthia Ruben and Susanne Menden-Deuer, 2017
Collaboration with Cynthia Ruben (NES)
Crystal Bog by Jessica Jabs, 2017 Drawing Water Resident
Artists in Residence Program: Drawing Water (NTL)
Smoke and Sun by Lisa Grossman, 2012.
Painting in Plein Air (KNZ)
Artist Erin Wiersma creating charred biomass imprints during a controlled burn at Konza Prairie Station (KNZ).
After the Burn (KNZ)
Page of the final insect book from Human-insect Intervention, by Siena McKim, 2018 Sevilleta Reseach Experience for Undergraduates Art Student
Human-insect Intervention (SEV)
Painter at Virginia Coast Reserve LTER. Photo: Cora Ann Johnston
Art & Ecology (VCR)
Just Below the Surface: 1915 (The Founding of Miami Beach) by Xavier Cortada, 2015
Collaboration with Javier Cortada (FCE)
Ecologist Martin Volaric and composer/programmer Eli Stine (left) recording oyster reefs. Photo: Cora Ann Johnston
Oyster Reef Soundscapes (VCR)
Ying Yang by Garret Bentley and Ness Uitti, 2018. Inspired by work at WHOI researcher Ann Tarrant's lab.
STEAM with Falmouth High School (NES)
Lake Bonney Camp, Antarctica. Steve Chignell, 2016.
Environmental History of the McMurdo Dry Valleys (MCM)
Gallery shot of work by photographer and essayist David Paul Bayles in collaboration with Andrews Forest LTER.
Outside of Time | Forest Landscapes (AND)
Fast Forward Future, 2017. Part of David Buckley Borden's Hemlock Hospice installation series.
Hemlock Hospice (HFR)
Tallgrass Artist Resident Rena Detrixhe working on her installation at Konza Prairie Station, 2017.
Tallgrass Artist in Residence (KNZ)
Leo rising, constellations
Constellation by Elizabeth Dodd (KNZ)
Future site of the Climate Variability installation at Sevilleta Field Station. Photo credit: Catherine Harris
Climate Variability: An installation at the Sevilleta LTER (SEV)

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