Brief announcements with limited lifespan.
The data produced at LTER sites inform many important challenges. Among-site comparisons help to understand how general ecological mechanisms change with local context. Modeling and forecasting efforts employ long term observations and experiments to generate testable predictions. Scaling exercises get at continental or even global interactions with human and economic consequences. LTER synthesis working groups… Read more »
In 2026, LTER launches a rescoped version of the synthesis skills course (SSECR) that we debuted in 2024 that is 100% online and open for all to apply. Deadline: March 31.
To facilitate site comparison and support the development of cross-site projects, the LNO is making up to eight travel fellowships available in 2026. Application deadline: March 16
Each year, the LTER Network Office offers opportunities for researchers, students, or staff to propose a project that requires travel to another site. Projects include piloting cross-site sampling efforts, developing distributed experiments, sharing of lab and field methods, cooperating on joint projects, shadowing another individual, and intensive mentoring. The February Community Call, focusing on site… Read more »
The Hubbard Brook Forest Data Jam is a juried competition, inviting students, artists, musicians, scientists, and coders to create original works inspired by real long-term forest data from the Hubbard Brook Experimental Forest.
Join the NEON Science Seminar Tues., Feb. 10 at 12pm MT to hear Dr. Renato Figueiredo of Oregon State University present “Towards Natural Language-based AI Agents for Environmental Data Exploration and Analysis Workflows.
We’re excited to announce the second meeting of the LTER Network Book Club, organized by the Graduate Student Rep Committee’s Community Working Group! This book club is designed as a fun, casual space for undergraduate students, graduate students, and postdocs across the LTER Network to connect and engage in conversations beyond day-to-day research. We are reading Braiding Sweetgrass by Robin Wall Kimmerer,… Read more »
Join NEON and ESIIL for a Love-data-week virtual hackathon (Thurs Feb 12) co-hosted by the National Ecological Observatory Network (NEON) and the Environmental Data Science Innovation & Impact Lab (ESIIL)! This event will provide an introduction to the NSF Harnessing the Data Revolution (HDR) Machine Learning Challenge, including a virtual space to form a team and get started with a submission. The goal… Read more »
The Young Voices of Science program consists of a series of expert-led workshops, each designed to prepare and empower science scholars to share their knowledge, concerns, and hopes for the future with the wider world, and provide a launch pad for public engagement, early in their scientific careers.
Congratulations to the winner of the 2025 LTER photo contest: Leonardo A. Rivera-Pagan, Luquillo LTER, and Rachael Brenneman, Konza Prairie.
