The Rigors and Rewards of Fieldwork
Sloane Viola takes us undersea at the Santa Barbara Coastal LTER site, where she studies life under oil rigs.
Look at the Filters on that Rack!
Filtering is essential to research at the California Current Ecosystem LTER. Alexandra Freibott takes us through it!
Building International Connections
The International LTER Network is holding its first global open science meeting in Kruger National Park, South Africa. Recognizing the value of this event for building international scientific collaboration, inspiring fresh ideas, and expanding the Network’s reach, NSF provided a supplement to help support attendance of some LTER scientists at this landmark meeting. Interest in… Read more »
Follow along with the El Nino Research Cruise!
Take a ride out to sea on the California Current Ecosystem’s Research Cruise!
Salad Cages
Christie Yorkie shows us how to sample kelp using repurposed salad containers in this SSALTER blog post from the SBC LTER.
Coral Reef Resilience: The Importance of Fish Functional Groups
In 2010, when Cyclone Oli hit the reef, Han wondered which way the scale would tip: could the coral recover from both these impacts? Or would macroalgae move in and dominate?
Ants, parasitoid wasps, and bears, oh my!
Imagine a bear in your office during the workday. This is sometimes reality at the Bonanza Creek LTER, as Alexandria Wenninger tells us!
Deep Sea Diving on Shallow Reefs
Survey coral under the waves with Stella Swanson at the Moorea Coral Reef LTER site for this edition of the SSALTER blog!
LTER Student Science at the 2016 Ocean Sciences Meeting
Students from the CCE and SBC LTER presented at the Ocean Sciences Meeting in 2016, as recounted for this SSALTER blog post.
Rot: The Afterlife of Trees
For artists participating in the multimedia exhibit “Rot: The Afterlife of Trees” at the Corvallis Arts Center, rotting trees are inspiration.
Top Stories
Boxes and boxes of bees—a Sevilleta LTER dataset highlight
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