Training Opportunity: Bystander Intervention

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[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]Have you ever witnessed harassment or hostile behavior but felt at a loss about how to interrupt or intervene? Field research—especially in remote locations—can create unique vulnerabilities. Join your LTER colleagues for an interactive training on safe and effective approaches to intervention.  Improving workplace climate: empowering individuals to become active bystanders This interactive session describes… Read more »

Kellogg LTER Researchers Play Key Role in New Biology Integration Institute

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Many ecological functions depend on symbiosis, where two organisms come together to form emergent traits neither displays alone. Microbes like bacteria and viruses are often at the center of these interactions. A new $12.5M National Science Foundation (NSF) grant will fund an ambitious endeavor to synthesize biological data across several disciplines to study the role… Read more »

LTER Sites Central to Several New NSF Critical Zone Cluster Awards

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The National Science Foundation (NSF) recently announced ten new awards for its Critical Zone Collaborative Network (CZCN), and LTER sites will play a prominent role in four of them. The awards fund a wide range of investigations to better understand the ‘critical zone’, the area of our planet where water, air, soil, rock and living… Read more »

Wildlife Friendly Cities in the face of Covid-19

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Credit: Laura Templeton We’ve all spent the majority of 2020 stuck inside. As we’ve been staring out our windows longing to return to our ‘normal’ lives, where we can meet co-workers in the coffee room or catch up with our favorite podcasts on our commute, we might have noticed some interesting wildlife behavior. Maybe we… Read more »

Live from the Field Opportunity

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The Organization of Biological Field Stations (OBFS) is creating a series of virtual field experiences, including “Live from the Field” events, which combine three 8-minute prerecorded videos from researchers at three research sites.

LTER Network News | August 2020

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[vc_row][vc_column][vc_single_image image=”81860″ img_size=”large” alignment=”center”][vc_column_text] August 2020 LTER Network News is a forum for sharing news and activities from across the LTER Network. This is our water cooler. If you have personnel changes, new grants, or cross-Network activities that might interest your LTER colleagues, please send them along to weiss@nceas.ucsb.edu.[/vc_column_text][vc_text_separator title=”Announcements” color=”peacoc” border_width=”6″][vc_column_text] 2020 Request for… Read more »

LTER Network News | August 2020

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[vc_row][vc_column][vc_single_image image=”81860″ img_size=”large” alignment=”center”][vc_column_text] August 2020 LTER Network News is a forum for sharing news and activities from across the LTER Network. This is our water cooler. If you have personnel changes, new grants, or cross-Network activities that might interest your LTER colleagues, please send them along to weiss@nceas.ucsb.edu.[/vc_column_text][vc_text_separator title=”Announcements” color=”peacoc” border_width=”6″][vc_column_text] 2020 Request for… Read more »

LTER Graduate Student Spotlight: Brian Kim

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This spotlight is part of an ongoing series featuring many of our wonderful LTER Network graduate student representatives who contribute valuable research and leadership across the network. To learn more about graduate research in the LTER network, visit this page. Brian Kim started his PhD in Marine Science from the University of Texas and is… Read more »

LTER at ESA 2020

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The year 2020 is the 40th anniversary of the Long Term Ecological Research (LTER) Network and we were looking forward to grand celebration at the Ecological Society of America’s 2020 Meeting. While we cannot share our enthusiasm in person this year, meeting participants will find a cornucopia of pre-recorded talks, online posters and live-online discussions…. Read more »

Recent boreal wildfires are changing forest communities in Interior Alaska

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Bonanza Creek LTER boreal forest after a fire

As boreal forest wildfires increase in severity and frequency, new patterns of post-fire recovery are emerging. Research led by Jill Johnstone at Bonanza Creek LTER has found that recent wildfires led to changes in tree species dominance that are persisting through post-fire succession in Alaskan boreal forests, indicating the potential for a widespread shift in… Read more »