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IM Executive Team Meeting - 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

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

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Fieldwork Initiative FIEST Training - 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.

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