CCAntiracismActionItems

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Planned action items generated at the Cedar Creek LTER site in response to Black Lives Matter anti-racism protests in the Spring of 2020. Cedar Creek LTER Community

planktonsensor_tom_kleindinst

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Co-authors Rob Olson and Heidi Sosik have worked on development of the FlowCytobot series of automated submersible plankton sensors at WHOI since the late 1990s Tom Kleindinst

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Co-author Alexi Shalapyonok secures FlowCytobot (FCB) underwater at the Martha’s Vineyard Coastal Observatory (MVCO) tower. FCB, an automated submersible flow cytometer, operates unattended at MVCO for 6 months or longer, measuring thousands of individual microscopic plankton every hour. Sean Whelan

soilrain_laurenbaur

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We characterized the sensitivity of biological soil crusts to drought (drought plot in photo) in dry grassland ecosystems (Fernandes et al. 2018). We also documented plant evolutionary responses to drought (Whitney et al. 2019) Lauren Baur

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We are directly testing how climate mean and variance interacts by building the first field experiments that cross long-term drought with increased rainfall variability. Jennifer Rudgers

LandscapeDiversity

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A prairie strip growing in wheat at the KBS LTER Main Cropping Systems Experiment. Kurt Stepnitz

EvolutionaryResponses

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A KBS LTER graduate student collects soil cores in a prairie strip on the Main Cropping Systems Experiment. Kurt Stepnitz