DataBits: Conventional Commits
Conventional Commits provide a framework for better commit messages using Git, with a set of standards that relay what kind of code changes occur at each step.
LTER at AGU, 2024
The LTER Network has a strong presence at the 2024 American Geophysical Union Fall Meeting. See all the talks and posters here!
New DataNugget: Do urchins flip out in hot water?
As part of a multi-site Research Experience for Teachers (RET) program, two science teachers, Emily Chittick and Traci Kennedy, from Milwaukee Public Schools, conducted an experiment to see whether warmer water temperatures affected the ability of sea urchins to flip themselves over after being turned upside down. They wrote up this part of their summer… Read more »
From Species Richness to Ecosystem Resilience: a Synthesis Study of Marine Consumer Nutrient Supply
Marine LTER sites come together to synthesize how consumer-mediated nutrient dynamics are changing throughout time and in response to disturbances.
Love writing about science? Now accepting applications for our 2024 LTER Graduate Writing Fellows program!
Now accepting applications for the 2024 cohort of LTER Graduate Writing Fellows.
A changing Arctic drives a new generation of research
An experiment at treeline, one on the tundra, one in the Kuparuk. Each has provided researchers with valuable truths about how each Arctic system responds to change.
Measuring Methane in 4D: Tree Fluxes at Harvard Forest
Our research, based at the Harvard Forest LTER site, delves into these dimensions to get a clearer picture of how trees contribute to methane emissions across space and time.
Shaped by fire: the Bonanza Creek LTER
Bonanza Creek was quick to remind me of its true nature: everything about its ecology follows the flame.
Renewed funding for the LNO prioritizes synthesis, broadening participation, and mentorship
With a renewed five-year award, the LTER Network Office (LNO) will focus on fostering new synthesis science, broadening participation in ecology, and training a new generation of ecologists.
It begins with quality data: non-LTER student uses SBC LTER data to learn R, presents work at ESA
How does an unaffiliated team wind up presenting a poster on decades of LTER data? It begins, as it so often does, with a need for data.
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