LTER Committee Meetings and LTER-related events are available for your reference at any time on the LTER Network Calendar.
- December 1-17, 2020: The Fall Meeting of the American Geophysical Union
- August 1-6 2021: The 2021 ESA Annual Meeting will be a hybrid virtual and in-person meeting in Long Beach, California. Session proposals are due November 19.
- May 16-18, 2021: LTER Science Council (Lead Principal Investigators and designates), hosted by Central Arizona-Phoenix LTER
- September 20-24, 2021: LTER All Scientists' Meeting, Asilomar Conferences Center in Monterey, CA (assuming Covid-19 restrictions aren't prohibitive)
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 This month, LTER Network News moves to Mailchimp, from all-LTER listserv. This is part of a transition to LTER Hub, our new community platform, that will roll out gradually to different groups over the next few months. For now, know that you can now update subscription and delivery preferences for LTER Network News (monthly, internal focus), LTER Science Update (quarterly, external focus), DataBits (semi-annual, IM-focused), and our jobs and opportunities listing from a single subscription page.
 The LTER Network now has a LinkedIn page! We are shifting our presence from Facebook to LinkedIn to keep up with community trends and better serve the network. Be sure to follow our LinkedIn page and tag or link to us when appropriate. We look forward to sharing future stories and opportunities via LinkedIn, and you can still find us active on Twitter and Instagram.
 A new metajam R package is now available on CRAN, geared towards scientists who want to use data from DataONE while leveraging the metadata information in R. It builds on the dataONE API and R package, currently supports EML metadata and has been tested on KNB, ADC and EDI repositories. For more: https://nceas.github.io/metajam/
 The Ecological Society of America is pleased to partner with the US Geological Survey to offer summer internships to outstanding field-trained undergraduates for the 2021 season. Selected applicants will be offered internships at available field, laboratory, or office related scientific positions throughout the country for up to 5 months. Due to the coronavirus pandemic, some internships may be conducted remotely. Nominations for 2021 are now open. Please nominate students by Nov 18, 2020.
 Proposal submissions are open for ESA's Annual Meeting August 1-6 for Symposia, Organized Oral Sessions, and Inspire Sessions. The meeting theme is " Vital Connections in Ecology". Proposals must be submitted through the online form by November 19, 2020, at 5:00 PM Eastern Time (2:00 Pacific Time). If you have any questions, please contact Program Chair Sarah Emery or Meeting Program Associate Jennifer Riem.
 In addition, Courtney Currier (courtney.currier@asu.edu) is helping to organize a physical and virtual exhibit space at ESA for sharing music, visual art, performance, theatre, film, poetry, and art in other mediums. The effort aims develop greater understanding of how the artistic and scientific processes work in tandem or in parallel, and to highlight artists whose work can offer new ideas to ecology or who may be interested in collaborating with members at ESA. For more details, and to apply to exhibit, contact Courtney.
 The NSF funded EFI Research Coordination Network (EFI-RCN) announces the launch of its inaugural NEON Ecological Forecast Challenge with the goal to create a community of practice that builds capacity for ecological forecasting by leveraging NEON data products. The Challenge includes 5 themes and is open to any individual or team that wants to submit forecasts and includes categories for different career stages. Register to submit forecasts HERE. Forecast submissions are accepted daily, February 1-July 1, 2021.
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DEIA Resource of the Month
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As the reinvigorated Diversity, Equity and Inclusion Committee expands network-wide activities, we’ll be highlighting a new DEIA (diversity, equity, inclusion, accessibility) resource in this space each month. Learn more at the DEI resources page.
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Stop giving early and late seasons the 'cold shoulder'
A new Arctic LTER publication led by Dr. Arial Shogren identifies key knowledge and data gaps that limit understanding of Arctic ecosystem structure and function. The team argues that expanding data collection further into the ‘shoulder seasons’ (early spring and late fall) is critical to developing more accurate carbon budgets and climate change models.
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Welcome to new Information Managers John Kerfoot at Palmer LTER and Stephanie Schmidt, who joins the Andrews Forest team as the US Forest Service Pacific Northwest Information Manager, following in Don Henshaw's footsteps. Monique Franco recently took on the roll of Education and Outreach Manager at the Central Arizona-Phoenix LTER and Katie Gavenus, the Program Director of the Center for Alaskan Coastal Studies, has a few months under her belt doing education and outreach for both the Northern Gulf of Alaska LTER and the Beaufort Lagoon LTER. Nancy Emery joins Katie Suding as co-Lead PI of the Niwot Ridge LTER and Meagan Oldfather comes on board as the new Research Coordinator for the site. A hearty LTER welcome to all!
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Central-Arizona Phoenix LTER has a new Virtual Field Trips series on Youtube that follows researchers through solutions-oriented, long-term projects throughout Central Arizona on topics including urban heat and design, wetlands, stormwater, and more.
Kellogg Biological Station LTER’s All-Scientist Meeting is available to view online, featuring presentations on several ongoing research studies on topics including ‘Diversity of organisms and landscapes’, ‘Abiotic and Social Adaptation’, and ‘Scaling up to model landscapes’.
Karen McGlathery, lead PI of the Virginia Coast Reserve LTER and Director of University of Virginia’s Environmental Resilience Institute, has accepted an invitation to sit on the newly minted Technical Advisory Committee (TAC) formed under Virginia's Coastal Resilience Master Planning Framework to plan for impacts of sea level rise across the state.
Anne E. Giblin, lead PI of the Plum Island Ecosystems LTER and a senior scientist at the Marine Biological Laboratory (MBL) Ecosystems Center, led a webinar for MBL that is available for viewing. The webinar gives an overview of the importance salt marshes have in providing ecosystem services and protecting our coastline and how they are threatened by an acceleration in sea level rise
The Virginia Coast Reserve LTER’s Ghosts of the Coast virtual art gallery is now Live and open for viewing. Take a virtual 3-D tour of the gallery as well as an actual ghost forest! Explore works of art by 10 eastern shore artists plus science and stories about the changing coastline.
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LTER Publications of Interest
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We couldn't help sharing all of the Tweets below - they embody a true passion for field research along with beautiful imagery! Check out Dr, Turetsky's full thread of "permaterms", and find more eye-grabbing photos of KBS LTER's switchgrass harvest on the KBS Twitter feed.
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