Leveraging Generative AI: Applications for the LTER Network
These examples offer a practical roadmap for integrating GenAI into research workflows to boost efficiency, reduce manual effort, and improve overall productivity.
Three new SPARC Synthesis Groups demonstrate the value of long-term data collected across ecosystems
The LTER Network Office is excited to announce that three Scientific Peers Advancing Research Collaborations (SPARC) proposals were funded this year. The three groups will meet in person at the National Center for Ecological Analysis and Synthesis for one week, starting in the fall.
Listening First: How KBS is Expanding the Reach of Conservation Research
The goal of the KBS LTER Listening Session was to understand where gaps between research and implementation occur and how they might work together to support farmers.
Ecology: The Science of Resiliency
Our circumstances have changed a lot in the last six months, leaving many US scientists feeling uncertain about the future. But the practice of addressing and reacting to the new challenges is something ecologists are very used to.
Boxes and boxes of bees—a Sevilleta LTER dataset highlight
Boxes and boxes of bees Humble beginnings The magnitude of an extensive specimen collection doesn’t really hit until you see it. At the University of Mexico’s Museum of Southwestern Biology, research scientist Jade McLellan pulls out one box of bee after another. There are shelves stacked to the ceiling. Some boxes are labeled with things… Read more »
Site Exchange Fellows Announced
The LTER Network Office is pleased to announce that we will be able to fund four site exchange fellowships in 2025. Site exchanges were designed to facilitate between-site comparisons and support the development of cross-site projects. The 2025 awardees exemplify a variety of approaches to such collaboration, including: shared sampling efforts, development and dissemination of… Read more »
LTER Graduate Students and Postdocs Summer Mentoring Community of Practice
Join fellow graduate students and postdocs from across the LTER network to discuss and find support around the challenges that arise during mentoring. The community is designed so that participants can pick up effective practices from others and to share your own successful strategies. We encourage participants to share their current challenges, and the group… Read more »
Collaboration with Shellfishers: an APEAL Seed Project
In October, over fifty attendees at the PIE LTER gathered in a local pub to acknowledge one another’s’ concerns for issues in the Sound.
Letting art do the work that science cannot: Bonanza Creek’s In a Time of Change program
The In a Time of Change program at the Bonanza Creek LTER brings together artists and scientists to generate new ways of understanding nature.
Request for Synthesis Proposals 2025
The data produced at LTER sites are an extraordinary scientific resource that can inform a wide variety of questions. Among-site comparisons interrogate the generality of effects observed at particular sites. Modeling efforts employ long term observations and experiments to formulate and test rigorous descriptions of theory. Scaling exercises get at the continental or even global… Read more »
Top Stories
Leveraging Generative AI: Applications for the LTER Network
Three new SPARC Synthesis Groups demonstrate the value of long-term data collected across ecosystems
Listening First: How KBS is Expanding the Reach of Conservation Research
Ecology: The Science of Resiliency
Boxes and boxes of bees—a Sevilleta LTER dataset highlight
Site Exchange Fellows Announced
LTER Graduate Students and Postdocs Summer Mentoring Community of Practice
Collaboration with Shellfishers: an APEAL Seed Project
Letting art do the work that science cannot: Bonanza Creek’s In a Time of Change program
Request for Synthesis Proposals 2025