In our August community call, we heard from three LTER sites that pursued intensive strategic planning and community conversations through the APEAL Project. This month, we’ll hold a conversation with sites that invested modest seed funding in starting or deepening relationships with individual community partners. Come be inspired by the outcomes that can result when we find the time and motivation to engage intentionally and with openness.
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The LTER monthly community call provides an opportunity to hold seminars, discussions, and learning opportunities of relevance to the broad LTER research community. These may include research seminars, discussions of emerging projects and methods, or the occasional organizational update.
August 27, 2025 @ 9:00 am-10:00 am – Authentic engagement requires significant effort to build relationships. But how can a site intentionally choose where and how to invest that effort? In partnership with Luquillo, Hubbard Brook, and Virginia Coast Reserve LTER sites, the APEAL Project held community conversations and developed site-level community engagement plans, helping to identify local partners, common goals, and opportunities for reciprocal connection. Please […]
…Community Engagement Officer at both NCEAS and the LTER Network Office. She works closely with the Advancing Public Engagement Across LTERs (APEAL) project team to facilitate co-creation and support project…
…engagement In our August community call, we heard from three LTER sites that pursued intensive strategic planning and community conversations through the APEAL Project. This month, we’ll hold a conversation…
SCRREE Framework for Public Engagement with Science The APEAL Project endeavors to put the 6-part SCRREE framework for public engagement into action at Long Term Ecological Research (LTER) sites….
…experiment or waiting for that unique set of conditions to recur. COVID 19 isolation has required the first substantial break in a 50-year dataset maintained by California Cooperative Oceanic Fisheries…
…for creating and managing complex databases to archive and serve data from forest health and other environmental monitoring/research projects; administering the FEMC website, including maintenance, development of new features, and…
…temperatures can vary throughout the year, but equatorial regions tend to remain consistently warm, and Antarctica and Greenland remain consistently cold. Altitude plays a clear role in temperatures, with mountain…
…for information contact information and staff responsibilities. Getting Started Data. The Environmental Data Initiative (EDI) is the main repository for LTER data. Whether you’re looking for contextual data or starting…
