Researchers at the Jornada take measurements using a pantograph, where a researcher with a stylus (center) traces the outline of a plant in a plot and the contraption translates the movements onto a piece of paper outside of the plot (bottom right).
Research methods for some extremely long-term datasets at the Jornada remain consistent to ensure data continuity. Here, the same photo in the same location with a new generation of researchers was recreated in 2016, updating the 1935 snapshot.
A quadrat at the Jornada Basin in 1935 (left) and again in 2016 (right), showing the stark difference in grass cover and ensuing shrub encroachment over the last half century
Top left to bottom right: Salp, pyrosome, Velella velella siphonophore, pyrosomes overflowing from net cod ends collected in the CCE during 2021.
Pyrosome Bloom imaged from ROV dive off Southern California in 2021.
Pyrosomes overflowing from net cod ends collected in the CCE during 2021
Vellela velella siphonophore at the CCE LTER.
A pyrosome at the CCE LTER
A salp at the CCE LTER
From left to right: Cole Doolittle, PhD Candidate; Arianna Dreschler, REU student, and Mark Schulze, HJ Andrews Experimental Forest Director work together to resurvey understory vegetation in the second year after a mixed-severity wildfire.
