LTER Photo Contest 2025
Introducing the LTER Photo Contest, 2025! Spurred on by the great images submitted last year and the fierce site vs. site competition that took place on our Instagram page to pick a winner, we’re back with a new theme!
A Day in the Life: Behind the Scenes on Sapelo Island
It is hard to put into words how exciting and simultaneously peaceful life is in this hidden corner of the world. The best we can hope to do is take you along for a regular day GCE LTER…make sure to slather yourself with sunscreen!
Fall 2025 Young Voices of Science Program
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.
When Shade Isn’t Enough: Climate Change in the Forest Understory
Once thought to be natural refuges, old-growth forests are warming faster than we imagined.
What is seagrass restoration worth on the blue carbon market?
How much revenue can seagrass restoration generate from carbon credits? It depends, says a new paper from the VCR LTER.
A plant evolutionary ecologist’s ode to yellow-bellied marmots
Marmots serve as a reminder to me to step back from this optimization-focused perspective and pay more attention to how organisms actually act than to how I think they should act.
LTER at ESA, 2025
LTER has an outsized presence at ESA, and this year is no different. See all the LTER talks here.
Morning in the Midnight Sun
Fairbanks, Alaska isn’t always the snow-covered tundra that most of us in the lower 48 would imagine. Eleanor Serocki covers a summer at the Bonanza Creek LTER.
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.
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LTER Photo Contest 2025
A Day in the Life: Behind the Scenes on Sapelo Island
Fall 2025 Young Voices of Science Program
When Shade Isn’t Enough: Climate Change in the Forest Understory
What is seagrass restoration worth on the blue carbon market?
A plant evolutionary ecologist's ode to yellow-bellied marmots
LTER at ESA, 2025
Morning in the Midnight Sun
Leveraging Generative AI: Applications for the LTER Network
Three new SPARC Synthesis Groups demonstrate the value of long-term data collected across ecosystems