Brittany Washington, a PhD student with the Baltimore Ecosystem Study, will visit the two LTER urban sites: Central Arizona-Phoenix (CAP) LTER and Minneapolis-St. Paul (MSP) LTER to become familiar with groundwater connectivity and how it is assessed at these two very different LTER sites.
Cameron Clay will visit Luquillo (LUQ) LTER to learn how to install, process, and analyze minirhizotron monitoring systems working with Dr. Tana Wood and Laura C. Rubio Lebrón. At MSP, Cameron will deploy a minirhizotron system into an existing floodplain forest experiment. The skills he gains in Puerto Rico will allow for the creation of parallel projects at these two LTER sites to test how extreme fluctuations in soil moisture affect root traits.
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.
This SSALTER blog is modified from the REU students’ weekly blog posts. Check out the fieldwork snippets they have done this summer!
The Community Building working group from the LTER Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion Committee will be facilitating a panel discussion on community engagement with colleagues from across the network
