Photo Contest Winners
Congratulations to the winner of the 2025 LTER photo contest: Leonardo A. Rivera-Pagan, Luquillo LTER, and Rachael Brenneman, Konza Prairie.
iDigBio Webinar Series
January 27, 2026: Streamlining Data Management with Specify Software (2:00-4:00pm ET) Speakers:Aimee Stewart (University of Kansas, Specify)Theresa Miller (University of Kansas, Specify) Abstract: For over 30 years, Specify, now the Specify Collections Consortium, has been supporting biological research museums and biorepositories to manage their collection data. The Specify team has been continuously working to streamline the… Read more »
ESIIL Innovation Summit
The 4th annual ESIIL Innovation Summit: AI for Sustainability will be in Boulder, Colorado from May 12-14. Attendees will dive into cutting-edge AI approaches for environmental data science, learn how to apply these methods in their own research and organizations, and collaborate on AI-ready datasets, tools, and use cases. There is no registration fee for accepted participants to… Read more »
LTER Arts and Humanities Working Group
The LTER arts and humanities working group will host a virtual get-together on February 5 at 1 pm EST/10am PST for those interested in advancing arts-humanities work within their sites and across the network. For our February meeting, we’ll feature the newest project from BNZ’s In a Time of Change (ITOC) collaborative arts-humanities-science program, Threshold 32F. Artist Klara Maisch, writer Debbie Moderow,… Read more »
24 Hours at Toolik Field Station
We are 158 miles north of the Arctic Circle, and the sun neither rises nor sets, but swings in an eternal, serene loop around the sky … it’s time to begin the great work of Science, which is something I’m still figuring out.
LTER Network Strategic Plan 2026-2035
The 2026-2035 LTER Strategic Plan builds on the assets that are characteristic of the LTER Program and emphasizes the questions we answer and the impact we can we have because we are a network.
A Lesson On Why You Never Leave Your Camera Behind
The painting is a nod to how the understanding of science is just as important to nature as its ethereal and timeless beauty.
Threshold 32F exhibit offers multiple perceptions of change
In a new traveling exhibit, Threshold 32F, from the In a Time of Change project, visitors are treated to a mix of poems, paintings, and research notes that takes them deep into a multidisciplinary experience of change. Adam Popescu wrote about the exhibit for the New York Times. A new video trailer, supported in part… Read more »
The functional groups of prairie strip people
Rachel Drobnak describes the “functional groups” of people who make prairie strip ecology such an exciting and rewarding field to work in at Kellogg Biological Station
Trout Lake Station highlights 100 years of research impact
Wisconsin Public Radio interviews Trout Lake Field Station Director Gretchen Gerrish in a new documentary highlighting local and global impacts of the research that has been conducted at the Trout Lake Station over the last 100 years of its operations. The National Science Foundation-funded Long Term Ecological Research Program has been an integral partner in… Read more »
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