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Telling the Right Story, for the Right People, at the Right Time January 8-March 11, 2017 Trying to set priorities for communicating your sites’ work? Or developing your first professional profile as you search for a job? Building a global reputation or breaking into a new area of research? In 2017, the LTER Network Communications Office… Read more »

Published by Marty Downs on Tue, 2017-10-10 10:23 Henry L. Gholz, of Fort Collins, CO, died rock climbing in Colorado on September 30, 2017. Henry Gholz’s passing is a tragic loss for ecology. Henry was a prominent ecosystem scientist who also had a stellar career in research administration and leadership. As a National Science Foundation… Read more »

By Martha Downs at August 16, 2017 – 6:00pm At the May Science Council meeting in 2017, the LTER Network bylaws were revised to reflect the establishment of the Network Communications Office and the Environmental Data Initiative. The Executive Director of the Network Communications Office was made a voting member of the Executive Board, but… Read more »

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The long-term nature of LTER sites imparts both an opportunity and a special responsibility to engage with our neighbors. Individual landholders and neighboring communities may be affected by the science that LTERs produce and the process of doing it. Industries and governments, too, may benefit from LTER science that can help them reduce environmental impacts… Read more »

Policymakers and resource managers often want scientists to provide forecasts of future conditions. But even when the natural dynamics of a system are well-understood, that may be impossible because trajectories of human activity are unpredictable. Scenarios offer a way to discuss possible futures that is concrete enough to be useful, without being unrealistically specific. Usually,… Read more »

Many LTER sites are located on field stations operated by the USDA Forest Service, USDA Agricultural Research Service, NOAA Estuarine Research Reserves, or other science and management entities. The resulting close cooperation ensures that the research produced by the LTER program is incorporated quickly into environmental management policy and practice. Conversely, LTER investigators interact regularly… Read more »