LTER Calendar

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

The LTER Information Management Committee meets monthly via video conference to share information and ideas relevant to information management in the LTER Network. Information Managers from all LTER sites are invited and encouraged to participate in these meetings.

Meetings are regularly scheduled for the second Monday of each month at Noon Pacific Time / 3 pm Eastern Time

Participants may obtain the zoom link by visiting the:

• LTER IM shared google drive
• Direct link to Zoom Information

Each third Monday of the month at 12:30 pm PT / 3:30  pm ET

The Information Management Committee Executive Team meets monthly and is responsible for tracking working group progress, liasing 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

The LTER Network DEIJ Committee meets monthly:

Second Tuesday of each month at
Noon Pacific Time / 3 pm Eastern Time

The purpose of the LTER Network DEIJ Committee:
Engagement, integration and retention of a diverse community of students, scientists, and educators within LTER. Provides concrete and deliberate actions and resources at individual sites and at the Network to foster diversity and inclusion.

Key links:
Shared google drive (current committee members may access zoom link here)
Committee web page
Join email list (diversity@lternet.edu) or change settings
LTER Forum Broadening Participation group

LTER Grad Rep Meeting

The LTER Graduate Student Committee was established to foster interaction among graduate students working at LTER sites and between students and senior LTER scientists, to create student opportunities for intersite research, and to develop interdisciplinary graduate student training programs. Membership includes student representatives from each of the LTER sites.

Shared Google Drive (request access from a google-associated email account)
2024 Meeting Notes
Committee Web Page
LTER Forum Group Page

The power of data synthesis for understanding the effects of coastal hurricanes

Christopher J. Patrick, Ph.D.
Associate Professor, The Virginia Institute of Marine Science, William & Mary

Hurricanes are projected to increase in frequency, intensity, and spatial coverage with climate change, however, our understanding of how and why coastal systems respond to particular hurricane events remains limited. The HERS-RCN (Hurricane Ecosystem Response Synthesis – Research Coordination Network) was created to address this need.  The presentation will include the rationale for the RCN, moving the field past “my system, my storm” case studies, summarizing the network efforts so far including what has been learned through data synthesis, and describing where the research coordination network efforts are headed next.

Highlights from network research include several data stories that come from our data synthesis.  These include the recent discovery that ecosystem responses to hurricanes tend to covary in terms of response size relative to stress (resistance) and recovery time relative to response magnitude (resilience), the effect that hurricane frequency has on functional diversity of coastal ecological communities, and the finding that fish community resilience to the hurricanes in the southeast United States has been declining.  The presentation will also touch on recent efforts to link ecological work to the social sciences, building the responses of socio-economic systems into our conceptual framework.

Christopher J. Patrick, Ph.D., is an Associate Professor at The Virginia Institute of Marine Science, William & Mary, where he runs the Coastal & Estuarine Ecology Lab and is the Lead PI and Director of The HERS (Hurricane Ecosystem Response Synthesis) RCN (Research Coordination Network). He is also the Director of the Submersed Aquatic Vegetation Restoration & Monitoring Program at VIMS, and lead PI of MarineGEO Virginia. He has a B.S. in Behavior, Evolution, Ecology, and Systematics from the University of Maryland, College Park and a Ph.D. in Ecology from the University of Notre Dame, South Bend, Indiana. Prior to VIMS, Chris was a Research Scientist at The Smithsonian Environmental Research Center (2011-2014), an American Association for the Advancement of Science, Science & Technology Policy Fellow placed with EPA Office of Water/Office of Science & Technology (2014-2015), and an Assistant Professor of Marine Biology at Texas A&M University, Corpus Christi (2016-2019) where he developed and directed MarineGEO Texas. With over 45 peer-reviewed publications to his credit, recent relevant papers on the topic of hurricane impacts on coastal systems include papers in Estuaries & Coasts, Science Advances, Bioscience, and Frontiers in Ecology & the Environment.

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

The LTER Information Management Committee meets monthly via video conference to share information and ideas relevant to information management in the LTER Network. Information Managers from all LTER sites are invited and encouraged to participate in these meetings.

Meetings are regularly scheduled for the second Monday of each month at Noon Pacific Time / 3 pm Eastern Time

Participants may obtain the zoom link by visiting the:

• LTER IM shared google drive
• Direct link to Zoom Information

The LTER Network DEIJ Committee meets monthly:

Second Tuesday of each month at
Noon Pacific Time / 3 pm Eastern Time

The purpose of the LTER Network DEIJ Committee:
Engagement, integration and retention of a diverse community of students, scientists, and educators within LTER. Provides concrete and deliberate actions and resources at individual sites and at the Network to foster diversity and inclusion.

Key links:
Shared google drive (current committee members may access zoom link here)
Committee web page
Join email list (diversity@lternet.edu) or change settings
LTER Forum Broadening Participation group

LTER Grad Rep Meeting

The LTER Graduate Student Committee was established to foster interaction among graduate students working at LTER sites and between students and senior LTER scientists, to create student opportunities for intersite research, and to develop interdisciplinary graduate student training programs. Membership includes student representatives from each of the LTER sites.

Shared Google Drive (request access from a google-associated email account)
2024 Meeting Notes
Committee Web Page
LTER Forum Group Page