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Short Stories About Long Term Research
- Hung out to dry: conducting ecological research in grassland streams during a historic drought May 19, 2020by Molly Fisher and James Guinnip (Konza Prairie Biological Station) In the spring of 2018, I began to seek out summer research opportunities during my sophomore year as an undergraduate at Simpson College. Simpson College, a small, private college located in south-central Iowa, had fostered my initial interest in ecological research and water sources found... […]ssalterblog
- Understanding Coral Bleaching: Research and Lessons from Mo’orea April 27, 2020by 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... […]ssalterblog
- A walk in the woods – 17 years later November 18, 2019by 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... […]ssalterblog
- Cruising the Ocean off California: Wrangling the MOCNESS monster October 15, 2019by Laura Lilly (CCE-LTER grad student rep) In August, the California Current Ecosystem (CCE) LTER program undertook a 32-day Process Cruise to sample the ocean off California. We left San Diego Harbor under sunny skies and smooth sailing conditions and headed north toward Monterey, California. The goal of our month long cruise was to track... […]ssalterblog
- Roadblocks and Rocks: How to Measure Soils in Forest Ecosystems August 21, 2019by Karla Jarecke and Adrian Gallo (HJ Andrews Experimental Forest) Fig.1 Dave Frey scouts location for a quantitative soil pit in Watershed 2 by taking a tree core in one of the younger trees in the old growth stand to date the age of the most recent landslide. Photo credit: Adrian Gallo Standing in a... […]ssalterblog