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Red sand verbena (Abronia maritima) growing in the dune restoration area.

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Dune restoration site on Santa Monica Beach with grooming tracks in the foreground over the control site.

MiStrips

Members of the Michigan Prairie Strips team at the Kellogg Biological Station LTER.

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Community Conversation session held to gather insights from the local community about their needs, interests, and perceptions about the Luquillo LTER program.

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Saeplo Island, part of the Georgia Coastal Ecosystems LTER, where shell rings from ancestral Muskogean people have been unearthed.

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Oyster reefs, like this one at the Virginia Coast Reserve LTER, were harvested sustainably by ancestral Muskogean peoples for thousands of years in the archaic period (around 4,000 years ago).

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Students display their food webs created as part of the NGA’s Virtual Field Trip.

Virtual-Field-Trip

Samples of the virtual field trip. Each of the three columns highlights a different medium: (left) are screenshots from the video game; (middle) are photos of “creature cards” students use to assemble their own food web, (right) are frames and animations from the video.