DataBits: Conventional Commits
Conventional Commits provide a framework for better commit messages using Git, with a set of standards that relay what kind of code changes occur at each step.
It begins with quality data: non-LTER student uses SBC LTER data to learn R, presents work at ESA
How does an unaffiliated team wind up presenting a poster on decades of LTER data? It begins, as it so often does, with a need for data.
Enriching Ecological Data Using Annotated Metadata
Importance and Unanticipated Use of Biological Collections in Long-Term Ecological Research
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.
Announcing ltertools: An R Package By and For the LTER Community
The LTER Network Office is proud to announce a new R package: ltertools!
Reflecting on EDI: a decade in review
Appreciating the history, work, and future of the Long-Term Ecological Research Network’s data repository, the Environmental Data Initiative.
DataBits: Experimenting with LoRaWAN for Sensor Data
LoRa is a digital radio technology designed for Internet of Things (IOT) applications. Here’s a tech test by John Porter.
DataBits Through the Years
This 30 year retrospective highlights how data management at the LTER has grown, pulling funny and interesting anecdotes for us to enjoy.
DataBits: AWS Lightsail with RStudio Server
Large GIS operations often stretch personal computers, but don’t require supercomputers. Here’s a way to run them via a remote server.
Using the LTERHub Directory API to Perform Site Tasks
John Porter walks through how to take full advantage of the LTERHub API, which taps into powerful directory functionality.
Top Stories
Boxes and boxes of bees—a Sevilleta LTER dataset highlight
Site Exchange Fellows Announced
LTER Graduate Students and Postdocs Summer Mentoring Community of Practice
Collaboration with Shellfishers: an APEAL Seed Project
Letting art do the work that science cannot: Bonanza Creek’s In a Time of Change program
Request for Synthesis Proposals 2025
Site Exchange Opportunity
How to find soil-dwelling life in “the valley of the dead”
Strengthen Mentoring Skills
Ten years later: an LTER synthesis working group leads to discovery and accelerates four careers