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Site Exchanges 2026

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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

LTER Community Call: Site Exchanges

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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 Forest Data Jam theme is “water and climate”

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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.

LTER Network Book Club

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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 »

Love-data-week hackathon

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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 »

Young Voices of Science Program

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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.

Photo Contest Winners

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Congratulations to the winner of the 2025 LTER photo contest: Leonardo A. Rivera-Pagan, Luquillo LTER, and Rachael Brenneman, Konza Prairie.

iDigBio Webinar Series

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January 27, 2026: Streamlining Data Management with Specify Software (2:00-4:00pm ET) Speakers:Aimee Stewart (University of Kansas, Specify)Theresa Miller (University of Kansas, Specify) Abstract: For over 30 years, Specify, now the Specify Collections Consortium, has been supporting biological research museums and biorepositories to manage their collection data.  The Specify team has been continuously working to streamline the… Read more »

ESIIL Innovation Summit

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The 4th annual ESIIL Innovation Summit: AI for Sustainability will be in Boulder, Colorado from May 12-14. Attendees will dive into cutting-edge AI approaches for environmental data science, learn how to apply these methods in their own research and organizations, and collaborate on AI-ready datasets, tools, and use cases. There is no registration fee for accepted participants to… Read more »