Barrier Island Retreat Drives Blue Carbon Losses
Sea level rise is eroding Virginia’s barrier islands, potentially flipping carbon rich coastal ecosystems from sinks to sources.
The Dock
Finding one’s place in research, through photography: Paul Leoni and Jess Liu explore a field season.
Success Stories in Sustainability from the Southernmost Site
The Antarctic has little infrastructure, so reduce, reuse, and recycle are particularly important. Learn about sustainability initiatives at the McMurdo Dry Valleys LTER.
LTER Community Calls
The LTER monthly community call provides an opportunity to hold seminars, discussions, and learning opportunities of relevance to the broad LTER research community.
LTER & FieldFutures Anti-Harassment Workshop
In 2024, the LTER Network Office will offer two FieldFutures workshops designed to prevent harassment and assault in fieldwork. Target audience: These workshops are designed for LTER researchers who expect to be in leadership roles in the coming field season. This includes, but is not limited to, investigators, graduate students, postdocs, and staff. Sessions (register… Read more »
Fungal friendships
By culturing fungi living within salt marsh plants, Postdoctoral Researcher Dr. Kylea Garces and PhD student Mya Darsan can learn not only what fungi are present, but how they benefit their plant hosts.
Don’t stick your hand in there – a story about caution and observation on the reefs of Moorea.
Contorted upside down and backwards, my face pressed into the smallest openings, I marveled at the mesmerizing whorls of the corals’ skeleton.
2023 Year in Review: a year of self reflection and investment in our future
This year, the LTER took a hard look at our challenges and successes, our unique position in the world of ecology, and orchestrated a path towards a vibrant and collaborative future.
Meandering Through the Mangrove Forests of the Florida Coastal Everglades
Experience a day in the life of field research in the Everglades mangrove forests: full of beauty, wonder, and core research on the flow of resources through this resilient ecosystem.
Burning Down the House Party
Come to find out, Christmas trees burn like you would not believe. Nick Link explores the events that led to an ecology PhD.
Top Stories
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