The Institute of Arctic Biology, University of Alaska Fairbanks has openings for two graduate students (M.S. pr Ph.D.) to work with Syndonia Bret-Harte and Roger Ruess on a new NSF-funded project on shrub feedbacks to carbon (C) and nitrogen (N) cycling in the arctic tundra. In the Arctic, a widespread shift from tundra to deciduous… Read more »
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Niwot Ridge Postdoctoral Fellowship
The Niwot Ridge LTER program invites proposals from early-career investigators for a 2-year postdoctoral fellowship. Synthesis of long-term data sets, on-going experiments, and model results is an important goal of NWT’s LTER program. These syntheses can provide new research findings, derived data sets, and new models that establish future research directions and guide the development… Read more »
LTER-NEON Synergies Workshop
The LTER and NEON Networks are seeking participants, especially early career scientists, for a workshop to explore synergies between the National Ecological Observatory Network (NEON) and the Long Term Ecological Research (LTER) Network. The workshop will take place at the National Center for Ecological Analysis and Synthesis/LTER National Communications Office located in Santa Barbara, CA… Read more »
November Science Update Newsletter
In November, the Science Update Newsletter covers: a survey of arts and humanities programs at 21 LTER sites, published in the Journal of Environmental Studies and Sciences; a paper in Fungal Ecology looking at the ways Harvard Forest LTER’s chronic nitrogen addition plots have restructured soil fungal communities; a multi-site experiment exploring the mechanisms relating nutrient enrichment… Read more »
NSF-funded scientists to present on long-term ecological research findings at AGU fall meeting
Everglades mangroves’ carbon storage capacity worth billions
(Don’t) judge an aquifer by its covering
Laura Busato pens this SSALTER blog post about aquifer research in the German Lowlands at an international LTER site.
Eco-Informatics Summer Institute (Summer 2018)
CALL FOR APPLICANTS for the Eco-Informatics Summer Institute (EISI) for summer 2018 Please note: Application deadline is February 2, 2018. The Eco-Informatics Summer Institute (EISI) (http://agsci.oregonstate.edu/eisi) will be held at the HJ Andrews Experimental Forest (http://andrewsforest.oregonstate.edu/) in the beautiful Oregon Cascade mountains. WHO: Continuing undergraduate students from all over the US who are citizens or permanent residents of… Read more »
The Small Island of Braila
By Jen Holzer, Technion Socio-Ecological Research Group After three days in and around Tulcea, we journeyed by car to the City of Braila, a city of about 200,000, famous as a node for the textile, shipbuilding, and shipping trades, and a surprisingly underdeveloped tourism industry. When our hosts told us this was not a travel… Read more »
News from the NCO: 2016 Autumn
November 2, 2016 Synthesis The LTER-NCO received nineteen proposals for Synthesis Working Groups in the October call for proposals. The review committee meets in late November and selections will be announced in December. Meanwhile, the Metacommunities Working Group got started with a bang, hosting a very successful workshop at ESA and their first meeting at… Read more »
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