Helping students hear the stories that data tell
Data Nuggets, operated by the KBS LTER, started its third round of funding from the National Science Foundation to improve data literacy in K-16 students.
How do Ecosystems Recover from Extreme Drought?
A team of Sevilleta LTER researchers are leveraging an existing long-term drought experiment to build critical understanding of dryland ecosystem responses in the aftermath of extreme drought.
Racially discriminatory housing policies determine who benefits from nature in Minneapolis
A new paper from the Minneapolis-St. Paul LTER shows that properties that had a racial covenant have better access to environmental benefits than those without.
Enriching Ecological Data Using Annotated Metadata
More Than a Scientist: The Seeds and Fruits of Artistic Expression in the FCE LTER
They’re ecology graduate students, but are loaded with artistic talent. Art and science collaborate at the Florida Coastal Everglades LTER.
LTER at ESA, 2024
The LTER Network always has a strong presence at the Ecological Society of America Annual Meeting, and this year is no different. See our talks here.
Gradient of Soil Fertilization Helps Tundra Shrubs Expand Across the Arctic
Scientists at the Arctic LTER find that different points along a gradient of soil fertility aid ectomycorrhizal and ericaceous tundra shrubs. Their findings hint at the potential for those two types of shrubs to co-expand over the Arctic—a previously unconsidered scenario that could have vast implications for the future of the northern tundra
Oceanography’s Rhythm: The Cadence of Life Aboard the RV Revelle
Welcome aboard the most recent cruise of the California Current Ecosystem LTER (CCE-LTER)!
Welcome to the Woods: New Beginnings in New Hampshire
Welcome to the Woods aims to at introduce political refugees to the natural features of their new home at the Hubbard Brook LTER.
There’s always a chance something amazing will happen
Transit between sites is always an opportunity to see amazing wildlife. Here are my most memorable wildlife encounters at the SBC LTER.
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Site Exchange Fellows Announced
LTER Graduate Students and Postdocs Summer Mentoring Community of Practice
Collaboration with Shellfishers: an APEAL Seed Project
Letting art do the work that science cannot: Bonanza Creek’s In a Time of Change program
Request for Synthesis Proposals 2025
Site Exchange Opportunity
How to find soil-dwelling life in “the valley of the dead”
Strengthen Mentoring Skills
Ten years later: an LTER synthesis working group leads to discovery and accelerates four careers
From Manhattan to the Arctic Tundra: 3 student’s summer adventure in Alaska