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December 2023/January 2024 |
LTER Network News is a forum for sharing news and activities from across the LTER Network. If you know of personnel changes, new grants, or cross-Network activities that might interest your LTER colleagues, please send them along to Gabriel De La Rosa (delarosa@nceas.ucsb.edu). |
Announcements |
Introducing Molly Phillips, the LNO’s New Inclusion and Access Officer |
We are excited to announce Molly Phillips has started at the LNO as our new Inclusion and Access Officer. Molly (she/her/hers) will facilitate the design and implementation of strategies to increase diversity, equity, and inclusion across the LTER network. |
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Molly is a biologist by training with a background in evolution, ecology, and natural history, with a variety of past work experiences including natural history collections, state agencies, nonprofits and the U.S. Air Force. Through these experiences she became very passionate about the importance of increasing diversity, equity, inclusion, and access (IDEA) in STEM, and now has eight years’ experience working in IDEA spaces with projects like BioQUEST Curriculum Consortium and iDigBio before joining the LTER team in 2024.
Welcome, Molly! We’re excited to have you on board! |
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First LTER Community Call: Orientation to the Network, Jan 24, 2023 |
Our new LTER Community Calls kick off with a Network Orientation on January 24, 2023 at 9 a.m. Pacific Time (10 a.m. MT / 11 a.m. CT / Noon ET).
These will take place every third Wednesday of the month, with a new topic each month.
For registration, information on how to suggest topics, and more, see the LTER Community Calls webpage. |
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LTER Visual Media Series - Jasiek Krzysztofiak | Join us for our second LTER Visual Media Series webinar and learn about infographic design with Jasiek Krzysztofiak, an award-winning information designer, working as Senior Art Editor for the science journal Nature in London.
Date: Friday, Feb. 9 Time: 8am PST/ 10am CST/ 11am EST/ 4pm GMT
1 hour webinar, followed by a 30 minute show-and-tell (start times: 8am PST/ 10am CST/ 11am EST/ 4pm GMT)
Logistics: Artwork submissions for show-and-tell to be due via Google Form on Friday, Feb. 2 (so we can collate and share with Jasiek) | |
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Announcing the ILTER Newsletter |
The International Long-Term Ecological Research Network started a newsletter this month. Sign up to stay informed! | | |
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Save the Dates |
LTER Committee Meetings and LTER-related events are available for your reference at any time on the LTER Network Calendar. |
DEIA Resource of the Month |
A guide for developing a field research safety manual that explicitly considers risks for marginalized identities in the sciences |
REU season is approaching. As we prepare to bring in new students from diverse backgrounds into fieldwork across our network, it’s always worth the effort to make sure each student feels safe, included, and welcome in these spaces. This publication is a nice framework for a more inclusive field season. |
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DEIA Resource of the month is brought to you by the Diversity, Equity and Inclusion Committee. Contact Committee chairs Nameer Baker (nameerbaker@gmail.com) or Mariah Patton (mtpatton@unm.edu) for additional information. |
Stories from the LTER |
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Burned Forest, Bleached Reef: LTER Sites adapt to learn from disturbance | By Gabriel De La Rosa How the Andrews Forest and Moorea Coral Reef LTER sites respond to disturbance highlights the struggle and opportunity that come with an irreparably altered ecosystem. Read more>> | |  | Sea Urchin Mothers can help their offspring withstand marine heatwaves | By Isabela Lima-Borges Purple sea urchin embryos whose mothers were exposed to heatwaves have greater tolerance to high temperatures, suggesting a pathway to resilience for this keystone species in kelp forests. Read more>> |
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The following posts are part of the LTER’s Short Stories About Long-Term Research (SSALTER) Blog, a graduate student driven blog about research, life in the field, and more. For more information, including submission guidelines, see lternet.edu/SSALTER
|  | Tiny but Mighty: How flies shape agroecosystems | by DeShae Dillard These tiny creatures are everywhere we turn, yet rarely do we pause to acknowledge their key role in our lives. If we take a moment to peek beneath their pesky surface, we discover a fascinating animal with intricate ties to functioning ecosystems. Read more>> |
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Around the Network |
Our Postdoc Ingrid Slette, who supported our synthesis groups for the last two years, finished her tenure at the LNO. She’s now a postdoc at NutNet, a close partner of the LTER—and we’re excited she’s staying close to the Network! |
LTER in the News |
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LTER Publications of Interest |
We only have space for a small sample of the dozens of papers published by LTER researchers each month. Search the full LTER Network bibliography on our website or follow our Zotero Group Library for regular updates. |
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Jobs & Fellowships |
REU Positions Other Opportunities |
Funding |
Postdoctoral Fellow Opportunities Research and Career Opportunities
Advancing Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion Education Opportunities |
Community Forum Posts of the Month |
A new section following the launch of our Community Forum, containing select posts that you may have missed each month. We’re toying with the best way to bring this information to our network, but for now, the section lives here. As always, let us know what you think! |
Our newsletter only goes out once a month. That doesn’t always let us promote events or jobs at the most effective time. The Community Forum this month was varied set of posts from all corners of the network—be sure to sign up to stay informed! |
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We’re still on social media, of course. Check us out at the links below, and remember that we also have a Mastodon and BlueSky page. |
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LTER Network NewslettersFrom LTER: LTER Network News (monthly) | DataBits (semi-annually) | LTER Opportunities |
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Photo Credits (top to bottom): (Visual Media Series) Used with permission from Jasiek Krzysztofiak; (Burned Forest) Mark Schulze, CC BY-SA 4.0.; (Sea Urchin Mothers) Jannine Chamorro, CC BY-SA 4.0.; (Tiny but Mighty)Ruben Ulbrich, 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 and DEB-1929393, 09/01/2019-08/31/2024. 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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