LTER Science Update | March 2020

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March 2020

A message from the LTER Network Office

We sincerely hope you all are well and doing your best to navigate this unstable time. The LNO staff continues to work remotely and communicate with sites across the network, share updates on our website and social media, and plan for future network events. We'd like to remind you that you can connect with others across the network via LTER Slack (and LTER grad student Slack channel), Facebook, and Twitter. You are always welcome to reach out to us! We are planning a career panel webinar for grad students in the coming weeks and welcome other ideas for connecting virtually.

Update: LTER Science Council 2020

The in-person May Science Council Meeting is temporarily postponed, but we will take advantage of the reserved window of time for the Science Council to gather online and share site and committee updates.

LTER IN THE NEWS

News from the National Science Foundation

Other Media

Photographer Weaves Together Art and Environmentalism at Cedar Creek | Lake Minnetonka Magazine
Long-Term Research Addresses Resilience of Beaufort Sea Lagoons | Arcus
Creating And Connecting Habitat Corridors | Iowa Public Radio
Cold, wet experiments in New Hampshire forest show that ice storms are worse than we figured | Concord Monitor
Why Taller Grass Can Be Bad News For Grasshoppers | NPR
Study Tests Global Warming Mitigation Capacity of Biofuels from Various Crops | AZO Cleantech
Our Changing Forest Program, Harvard Forest (Video) | Northern Woodlands Magazine

LTER Publication Highlights

What makes a network work? Collaboration in the LTER Network

A recent analysis of collaboration in the LTER Network reveals that LTER-related publications involve more collaborators, more institutions, persist for longer, and cover greater distances than other publications in the field of Ecology.

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Thinking about long-term futures to make better decisions today

Central Arizona Phoenix LTER is taking an innovative approach to urban research by co-producing sustainable future scenarios with Phoenix city planners, decision-makers, and community leaders.

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Let’s CHAT about improving REU programs

Researchers from Harvard Forest LTER present a comprehensive theoretical framework that provides structure for evaluating the effectiveness of undergraduate research programs and enhancing their success in the process.

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Can seagrass meadows mitigate climate change?

Over an 11-year period, researchers at the Virginia Coast Reserve LTER site used innovative aquatic eddy covariance instruments to continuously monitor metabolism of an eelgrass meadow that had been restored in 2001.

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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.

Foundation species promote community stability by increasing diversity in a giant kelp forest | Ecology
Functional diversity of leaf litter mixtures slows decomposition of labile but not recalcitrant carbon over two years | Ecological Monographs
Disturbance legacies increase and synchronize nutrient concentrations and bacterial productivity in coastal ecosystems | Ecology
Repeated fire shifts carbon and nitrogen cycling by changing plant inputs and soil decomposition across ecosystems | Ecological Monographs
Rainfall intensification increases nitrate leaching from tilled but not no-till cropping systems in the U.S. Midwest | Agriculture, Ecosystems & Environment
Dispersal drives changes in fish community abundance in intermittent stream networks | River Research & Applications
Effects of Saltwater Pulses on Soil Microbial Enzymes and Organic Matter Breakdown in Freshwater and Brackish Coastal Wetlands | Estuaries and Coasts

Announcements & Opportunities

Job and Training Opportunities

The LTER Network website maintains a current list of LTER opportunities, including everything from REU and graduate student opportunities to technicians and tenure track positions.

Tweets of the Month

A new section where we feature some of the eye-catching Tweets and photos from around the LTER network over the past month. Be sure to tag us at @USLTER for a chance to be featured in future newsletters! This month's Tweets and pics are all about educating the next generation of scientists:

LTER Network Newsletters

From LTER: LTER Science Update (bimonthly) | LTER Network News (bimonthly) | DataBits (semi-annually)

Related Network Newsletters

Environmental Data Initiative (monthly) | National Ecological Observatory Network (NEON) | International LTER (ILTER) Mailing list | DataONE | Earth Science Information Partners (ESIP)

Photo Credits (top to bottom): LTER Network Office, CAP-LTER (CC BY-SA 4.0), Harvard Forest Archives: Sarah Plisinski (CC BY-ND), Berk Lab/VCR-LTER (CC BY-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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