Lin Hou, A PhD student at the California Current (CCE) LTER site, will visit the Northeast Shelf (NES) LTER to refine her Imaging Flow Cytobot (IFCB) analysis techniques, drawing on approaches used in the Sosik lab at Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution.
Grace Cawley will travel from the California Current Ecosystem (CCE) LTER to the Northeast Shelf (NES) LTER to conduct field and laboratory work with scientists at Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution. She will draw on protocols developed within the California Current Ecosystem LTER to explore how NES zooplankton sampling can be extended to support size-resolved and image-based analyses.
The LTER Network Office is excited to announce that three Scientific Peers Advancing Research Collaborations (SPARC) proposals were funded this year. The three groups will meet in person at the National Center for Ecological Analysis and Synthesis for one week, starting in the fall.
The LTER Network Office is pleased to announce that we will be able to fund four site exchange fellowships in 2025. Site exchanges were designed to facilitate between-site comparisons and support the development of cross-site projects. The 2025 awardees exemplify a variety of approaches to such collaboration, including: shared sampling efforts, development and dissemination of… Read more »
Welcome aboard the most recent cruise of the California Current Ecosystem LTER (CCE-LTER)!
Biological collections are a valuable resource to long-term sites, but logistically challenging to maintain. The authors present an argument for supporting biological collections across sites.
There are a multitude of reasons why gelatinous zooplankton pose an enticing scientific challenge. Dante Capone explores why the CCE LTER studies these creatures in a new SSALTER blog post.
Every year, the Eastern North Pacific population of blue whales migrates between their winter calving grounds off the coast of Mexico and their summer feeding grounds in the California coastal region. Scientists know that they time their migration to coincide with peak prey abundances, but the cues they use for this have been unknown—until now…. Read more »
Laura Lilly takes us along on a sampling cruise with the California Current Ecosystem Long Term Ecological Research site!
The global carbon cycle doesn’t have many off-ramps, but the deep ocean is one of them. Researchers with the California Coastal Ecosystem LTER have found that twice as much carbon finds its way to the deep ocean at mesoscale ocean fronts as elsewhere in the ocean.
Take a cruise out to sea with Maitreyi Nagarkar to sample isotopes at the California Current Ecosystems LTER Site.
Filtering is essential to research at the California Current Ecosystem LTER. Alexandra Freibott takes us through it!
