Natural Areas Conference Call for Proposals

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The 2026 Natural Areas Conference: Where Science Meets Stewardship is scheduled for October 5 – 8, 2026, in Asheville, NC. NAC26 is a great opportunity for LTER Network research scientists to share their work with practitioners—and to discuss use-inspired collaborations. NAA’s conference is by practitioners for practitioners, offering access to quality science, new knowledge, and experience-based practices that bridge… Read more »

Request for Synthesis Proposals 2026

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The data produced at LTER sites inform many important challenges. Among-site comparisons help to understand how general ecological mechanisms change with local context. Modeling and forecasting efforts employ long term observations and experiments to generate testable predictions. Scaling exercises get at continental or even global interactions with human and economic consequences. LTER synthesis working groups… Read more »

Our second summer, we were not evacuated!

—by Rebecca Hawk If you step inside a classroom, there’s a good chance you will meet a group of funny and interesting kids and an adult who loves spending their days with them. This adult probably joined the education field with a heart full of hope or a fond memory of their schooling days. Sometimes… Read more »

2026 Synthesis Skills Course Opens

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In 2026, LTER launches a rescoped version of the synthesis skills course (SSECR) that we debuted in 2024 that is 100% online and open for all to apply. Deadline: March 31.

Site Exchanges 2026

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To facilitate site comparison and support the development of cross-site projects, the LNO is making up to eight travel fellowships available in 2026. Application deadline: March 16

Bringing seeds of wonder and curiosity from the Arctic Circle to a Minnesota Classroom

As a teacher, students often think we ‘know’ everything or should be able to explain every possible question they pose. It was refreshing to remember how science begins with ‘not knowing’. This renewed appreciation for the process of inquiry, that science is a way of asking about the world around us, was a humbling encounter.

LTER Community Call: Site Exchanges

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Each year, the LTER Network Office offers opportunities for researchers, students, or staff to propose a project that requires travel to another site. Projects include piloting cross-site sampling efforts, developing distributed experiments, sharing of lab and field methods, cooperating on joint projects, shadowing another individual, and intensive mentoring. The February Community Call, focusing on site… Read more »

The Forest Data Jam theme is “water and climate”

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The Hubbard Brook Forest Data Jam is a juried competition, inviting students, artists, musicians, scientists, and coders to create original works inspired by real long-term forest data from the Hubbard Brook Experimental Forest.