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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.

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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.

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Research at the BNZ LTER is pretty in a photo, but buzzing with mosquitos during the summer months.

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Parks in Baltimore are important green spaces for surrounding communities.

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Kyle Runion conducting a vegetation survey in the Port Aransas Nature Preserve to measure species richness in a project with our Semester by the Sea student to study marsh vegetation, elevation, and soil temperature.

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Sunset over the UGAMI Marsh, near the University of Georgia Marine Institute on Sapelo Island, Georgia, in August 2021.

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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).

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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.

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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