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The irrigation transect experiment used a sprinkler system to water the prairie for twenty-five years. Researchers manipulated the experiment to search for legacy effects on the grassland.

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Rainfall exclusion shelters keep natural precipitation off of small prairie plots. Researchers use these to simulate drought.

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The irrigation transect experiment at the Konza Prairie LTER runs aliong the entire reserve, from the lowlands to the highlands.

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Coweeta researchers find that soil microbes in historically disturbed forests are less resilient following drought conditions.

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Serina Wittyngham (left) and Kinsey Tedford (right) stand next to their freshly installed Chronolog station at the Virginia Coast Reserve

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The Chronolog station at the Niwot Ridge LTER captures changes to the alpine tundra. Community members still manage to contribute photos to this remote site.

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The repeat photography station on the Eastern Shore of the Virginia Coast Reserve captures vegetation changes along the waterfront throughout the year.

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Repeat photography stations are designed to capture change throughout the year. This station, trained on an oyster reef at the Virginia Coast Reserve, is beginning to show the reef growing, along with capturing a huge range of environmental variability through the year.

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A humpback rises before the RV Laurence M. Gould in the Antarctic. Icebreaker ships like this can’t get close to South American humpbacks, and as a result tagging the whales is an involved process. Photo captured under the following permits: NMFS 14907, 14809, 14856; ACA 2009-013 and 2015-011. Shared with permission from the Palmer LTER.