We’re excited to announce the second meeting of the LTER Network Book Club, organized by the Graduate Student Rep Committee’s Community Working Group! This book club is designed as a fun, casual space for undergraduate students, graduate students, and postdocs across the LTER Network to connect and engage in conversations beyond day-to-day research. We are reading Braiding Sweetgrass by Robin Wall Kimmerer,… Read more »
Join NEON and ESIIL for a Love-data-week virtual hackathon (Thurs Feb 12) co-hosted by the National Ecological Observatory Network (NEON) and the Environmental Data Science Innovation & Impact Lab (ESIIL)! This event will provide an introduction to the NSF Harnessing the Data Revolution (HDR) Machine Learning Challenge, including a virtual space to form a team and get started with a submission. The goal… Read more »
The Young Voices of Science program consists of a series of expert-led workshops, each designed to prepare and empower science scholars to share their knowledge, concerns, and hopes for the future with the wider world, and provide a launch pad for public engagement, early in their scientific careers.
Congratulations to the winner of the 2025 LTER photo contest: Leonardo A. Rivera-Pagan, Luquillo LTER, and Rachael Brenneman, Konza Prairie.
January 27, 2026: Streamlining Data Management with Specify Software (2:00-4:00pm ET) Speakers:Aimee Stewart (University of Kansas, Specify)Theresa Miller (University of Kansas, Specify) Abstract: For over 30 years, Specify, now the Specify Collections Consortium, has been supporting biological research museums and biorepositories to manage their collection data. The Specify team has been continuously working to streamline the… Read more »
The 4th annual ESIIL Innovation Summit: AI for Sustainability will be in Boulder, Colorado from May 12-14. Attendees will dive into cutting-edge AI approaches for environmental data science, learn how to apply these methods in their own research and organizations, and collaborate on AI-ready datasets, tools, and use cases. There is no registration fee for accepted participants to… Read more »
The LTER arts and humanities working group will host a virtual get-together on February 5 at 1 pm EST/10am PST for those interested in advancing arts-humanities work within their sites and across the network. For our February meeting, we’ll feature the newest project from BNZ’s In a Time of Change (ITOC) collaborative arts-humanities-science program, Threshold 32F. Artist Klara Maisch, writer Debbie Moderow,… Read more »
We are 158 miles north of the Arctic Circle, and the sun neither rises nor sets, but swings in an eternal, serene loop around the sky … it’s time to begin the great work of Science, which is something I’m still figuring out.
The 2026-2035 LTER Strategic Plan builds on the assets that are characteristic of the LTER Program and emphasizes the questions we answer and the impact we can we have because we are a network.
Research at LTER sites develops deep knowledge of particular ecosystems, yet the power of the Network is in comparing and contrasting across and among sites. To facilitate site comparison and support the development of cross-site projects, the LNO is making up to eight travel fellowships available in 2026. Each fellowship will cover travel, lodging, and… Read more »
