Request for Synthesis Proposals 2025

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The data produced at LTER sites are an extraordinary scientific resource that can inform a wide variety of questions. Among-site comparisons interrogate the generality of effects observed at particular sites. Modeling efforts employ long term observations and experiments to formulate and test rigorous descriptions of theory. Scaling exercises get at the continental or even global… Read more »

Site Exchange Opportunity

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Apply to travel to a different site to pursue comparative research. Deadline: March 28, 2025.

Engagement Practice Briefs

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SCRREE Framework for Public Engagement with Science The APEAL Project endeavors to put the 6-part SCRREE framework for public engagement into action at Long Term Ecological Research (LTER) sites. SCRREE (Strategic, Cumulative, Reciprocal, Reflexive, Equitable, and Evidence-based) was developed by Sarah Garlick and John Besley, with support from the Consult with Catalyst team and a… Read more »

LTER Community Calls

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The LTER monthly community call provides an opportunity to hold seminars, discussions, and learning opportunities of relevance to the broad LTER research community.

Launching the LTER Community Forum

The heart of the LTERnet community forum is peer-to-peer exchanges. We need everyone’s participation to really access the value of the LTER community. 

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2021-22 LTER Webinar Series: See past webinars here!

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Our 2021-2022 webinar series introduces the work of the six synthesis groups that are currently active. Their foci range widely and include the effects of drought at hundreds of sites globally, developing better ways of aligning genomic and ecological data, controls on river exports of silicon and more.

Information Management Committee Bylaws Revision

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The Executive Team of the LTER Information Management Committee has reviewed the Committee’s Bylaws and is requesting approval of several updates. The original impetus for the update (and the only change of any real significance) is to allow the Executive Committee to choose their own chair(s) rather than having chairs selected by the IMC. IM-Exec… Read more »