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   September 2019
LTER IN THE NEWS

News from the National Science Foundation

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LTER Synthesis Reports

Synthesis: What, Why, and How

The LTER Network Office at UCSB is fielding a new call for synthesis proposals with a deadline of October 23, 2019, so we are bringing readers a few thoughts on the variety of research that constitutes synthesis and some real-life stories from our current synthesis working groups.

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Integrating plant community and ecosystem responses to chronic global change drivers

Starting with an assembled database from a wide variety of resource manipulation experiments, the group engaged modelers and empiricists to work in a coordinated way assessing the relationship between plant community dynamics and ecosystem functioning.

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Metacommunity dynamics and community responses to disturbance

A gap in existing metrics led to a new way of assessing compositional variability and an R package to calculate it, while the challenges of finding comparable datasets led to the curation of a collection of ~30 harmonized (i.e., comparable) LTER metacommunity data sets and workflows for pulling from the source data.

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Other LTER Papers of Interest
The most recent LTER-related papers are available on the LTER Network web site and the full Network bibliography is available at the LTER Network Zotero Group Library.
Announcements & Opportunities

Around the Network

Thanks to recently secured NSF funding, the LTER Network Office will remain at NCEAS in Santa Barbara, CA for the next five years. 

The Environmental Data Initiative also received funding to continue its mission of accelerating data curation, preservation and reuse, based jointly at the University of Wisconsin and the University of New Mexico.
Congratulations to Florida Coastal Everglades LTER's Evelyn Gaiser and Dan Childers (formerly of FCE LTER), who recently released the latest contribution to the LTER book series: The Coastal Everglades: The Dynamics of Social-Ecological Transformation in the South Florida Landscape.

KBS LTER is seeking submissions for their first ever Allurement Salon, a celebration and showcase of arts and sciences at KBS. For more information on Art & Science initiatives around the Network, visit our recently-launched Art & Science webpage

Twenty-two LTER researchers attended the International LTER Open Science Meeting in Leipzig Germany, presenting and leading workshops on topics as diverse as  linking social and ecological data in Pacific Island artisanal fisheries, urban resilience to extreme events, and patterns and drivers of stability in longterm metacommunity data.


Announcements

The Fulbright Arctic Initiative is seeking a Distinguished Leader (or team of two Leaders) to provide intellectual guidance and facilitation for the third round of Fulbright Arctic Scholars from fall 2019 through 2022. The Leader(s) will oversee the process of providing grants to both established experts and early career specialists who study the Arctic from a multi-disciplinary perspective.

Explore NEON Workshop Nov 6-8 2019: This three-day workshop at the University of Texas, El Paso & New Mexico State University introduces participants to NEON, teaches them how to access and work with NEON data, and allows them to interact with NEON science staff to get assistance working on the data they are interested in using. The third day is a site visit to the NEON Jornada field site.


Job Opportunities


Funding Opportunities

 

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Photo Credits (top to bottom): LTER Network Office (CC BY-NC-SA 4.0), JRN LTER (CC BY-NC-SA 4.0), Jacob Miller, CDR LTER (CC BY-NC-SA 4.0) 

This material is based upon work supported by the National Science Foundation under award # DEB-1545288, 10/1/2015-9/30/19. Any opinions, findings, conclusions, or recommendations expressed in the material are those of the author(s) and do not necessarily reflect the views of the National Science Foundation.
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