…we’ve articulated interest in the urban LTER topic areas as well as the traditional core research topics, so we may get additional proposals in those areas. The process will remain…
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Who knew? Hurricanes matter little for marsh health. Freshwater inputs matter a lot.
…and time. While wrack and snail disturbance varied predictably across the landscape, suggesting that barrier island marshes experienced more disturbance than did marshes on the mainland, disturbance frequency varied up…
Environmental Stewardship of the McMurdo Dry Valleys
…with NSF and other international partners to reduce current and potential impacts on the landscape and maintain ecosystem functioning of the McMurdo Dry Valleys. The full workshop report can be…
LTER Education Strategic Plan
Executive Summary – Beginning in 1998, the Long Term Ecological Research (LTER) Network formally expanded its education efforts to include K-12 students and teachers mainly through the Schoolyard (SLTER) program…
Enhancement of the LTER Controlled Vocabulary to Support Data Synthesis
…European ILTER. PASTA is also incorporating improved search technologies that rely on the thesaurus. Despite these successes there remains additional work that needs to be done to maintain and further…
LTER Road Trip: From Ice Storms to Summer Droughts
…in preparation for a culvert replacement nearby. Equipment maintenance is a 365 day job! The next morning, Dr. Rustad and I checked out some of the study plots near headquarters,…
Clean Water and Land Markets
…natural land- is a prime natural laboratory to study the impacts of environmental regulation and ecosystem services on land values. Urbanization impacts water quality and watershed health in three main…
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Click here, to learn more about NSF’s Long-Term Ecological Research Program The LTER Network and a number of the LTER sites maintain an active social media presence. You can find…
Poopy Penguins
…new places is one of the highlights of my job and one of the main reasons I decided to go into grad school in the first place. So, the next…
The Rigors and Rewards of Fieldwork
…oil platforms is breathtaking in ideal conditions. Visibility can reach 100 feet, far more than a good day on the mainland. Huge schools of juvenile fish, large adult fish, and…
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