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Please join us for this innovative cross-site research experience at Long Term Ecological Research sites: the Authentic Research Experience for Teachers at LTERs program. Pairs of selected teachers will work with faculty and graduate students to conduct research and compare their experiences with teachers stationed at other LTER sites. We invite applications from full-time middle… Read more »

Contact Us

The Authentic Research Experiences for Teachers at LTERs (ARET@LTER) program is supported through the National Science Foundation BIORETS Program. For information about the program as a whole, contact: Joseph LaManna, Project Principal Investigatorjoseph.lamanna@marquette.edu For information about ARETS at the Andrews LTER site, contact: Kari O’Connell, Andrews LTER Education Coordinatorkari.oconnell@oregonstate.edu For information about ARETS at the… Read more »

Explore the Sites

Andrews LTER The H.J. Andrews Experimental Forest (AND) LTER is located in the Cascade Range of Oregon, and consists of 6,400 ha of conifer forest, meadows, and stream ecosystems. This mountain landscape experiences episodic disturbances, including fires, floods, and landslides. The question central to Andrews Forest LTER research is: How do climate, natural disturbance, and… Read more »

Meet the Team

Principal Investigator Joseph LaManna Joe LaManna, Marquette University, H. J. Andrews LTER site: Dr. LaManna is an Assistant Professor in Ecology at Marquette University in Milwaukee, WI. He leads a research program focused on factors driving population and community ecology of forest ecosystems, examining those questions in old-growth and secondary forests at the Andrews LTER… Read more »

Authentic Research Experience for Teachers @ LTERs

How do emerging environmental stressors such as floods, droughts, and heat waves impact local biodiversity across diverse ecosystems? The Authentic Research Experience for Teachers at NSF’s Long Term Ecological Research sites (ARET@LTER) project engages middle school and high school teachers  in conducting field and laboratory research focused on how environmental stressors affect biodiversity. These paid… Read more »

2021-22 LTER Webinar Series: See past webinars here!

Our 2021-2022 webinar series introduces the work of the six synthesis groups that are currently active. Their foci range widely and include the effects of drought at hundreds of sites globally, developing better ways of aligning genomic and ecological data, controls on river exports of silicon and more.