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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). |
2024 Request for Proposals |
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2024 Competition for Full Synthesis Proposals
To promote analysis and synthesis of LTER data, the LNO requests proposals for two synthesis working groups to begin in Autumn 2024. | Proposers should also feel free to contact LNO Director Marty Downs: (downs@nceas.ucsb.edu) for questions or to discuss research ideas.
Key Proposal Dates and Deadlines Proposal Due Date: Wed. June 26, 5pm PST Awards announced August 2024 Projects begin September 2024
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Click to watch the LTER’s new video about synthesis science! |
Announcements |
Announcing LTER Mentoring Community |
Join mentors from across the LTER network to discuss and find support around the challenges that inevitably arise during mentoring. Bring the challenges you are encountering; we’ll leverage our shared expertise toward creating solutions. Come to pick up effective practices from others or to share your own successful strategies. Leave with actionable ideas and a deeper community of support. The Summer 2024 cohort of our community-of-practice starts May 16, 2024. |
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Learning Opportunity: Synthesis Skills for Early Career Researchers |
Graduate students learn how to conduct solo research as part of their degrees, but how do they learn what’s involved in conducting synthesis research? The LTER Network Office is offering a new, year-long experiential learning course to build the technical and interpersonal skills that synthesis research demands. Deadline to apply is May 15, 2024. |
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Federal Career ForumMay LTER Community Call |
If you are interested in pursuing a career working for a federal agency, join us on May 22nd from 3:00-5:00 EST/12:00-2:00 PST to meet federal scientists working around the United States and learn about their career paths, work challenges and benefits, ‘a day in their life,’ and advice they wish they would have known as early career scientists.
A “watch party” of prerecorded interviews with 13 federal scientists will start at Noon PT (3 pm ET), with the full panel discussion beginning at 1 pm PT (4 pm ET). |
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All Visual Media Series Webinars now posted! | We wrapped up our Visual Media Series with a presentation from Kelso Harper, multimedia producer at Scientific American, this past month.
This series, organized by the LTER Graduate Student Committee, included talks on Science Graphics with Jen Christiansen, Data Visualization with Jasiek Krzysztofiak, and Photography and Videography with Kelso Harper. You can view all three webinars at the link below. | |
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Call for synthesis groups at the Cedar Creek LTER |
The Cedar Creek LTER announced a new opportunity for synthesis groups. Proposals are due May 30, 2024. See the full posting for more information. |
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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. May 2, 2024: Entering Mentoring Workshop **FULL** May 14 at 10:30-Noon PT: FieldFutures Bystander Intervention Training Workshop is full. May 15, 2024: Deadline to apply to the SSECR course May 22 at 12pm PST/3pm EST: Federal Agency Career Forum, LTER Community Call June 10-14, 2024: LTER Science Council Meeting, Fairbanks, AK June 26, 2024: Deadline for the LTER Synthesis RFP October 14-19, 2024: International LTER Open Science Meeting, hosted by CERN in Xishuangbanna, China
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DEIA Resource of the Month |
| Beyond reporting: proactive strategies for safer scientific fieldwork |
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Melissa Cronin, director of FieldFutures, published this paper earlier this year that recommends steps to construct safe and inclusive environments for fieldwork. This approach tries to spur structural changes that prevent problems from the outset, a more holistic strategy than most other initiatives. Give it a read >> |
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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. |
Story Spotlights |
 | Remaining Relevant: The Hubbard Brook Online Book | —by Jenna Zukswert Efforts to summarize long-term trends in ecological data at Hubbard Brook can quickly become outdated. A new initiative, the Hubbard Brook Online Book will continue to reflect the most current understanding of the Hubbard Brook forest ecosystem whenever it is read. 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 |
A picturesque study system: Notes from the SBC LTER |
| —by Kristen Michaud “Whenever I jump into the blue-green surface waters and descend towards the bottom, I am reminded of the powerful, yet serene beauty of kelp forests.” Read more >> |
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Around the Network |
The H.J. Andrews LTER started a new fund to help them recover from the Lookout Fire, which tore through the forest last year. You can donate at the link.
Jornada Basin LTER’s Brandon Bestelmeyer received the W.R. Chapline Award from the Society for Range Management. Well deserved!
The Kellogg Biological Station LTER added tons of new photos to the LNO’s SmugMug page! Want to update your site’s photos? Get in touch with the Network Office!
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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 |
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Funding |
Synthesis Opportunities
Postdoctoral Fellow Opportunities Actionable Science 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): (Beyond Reporting) Elizabeth Schultheis, CC BY-SA 4.0. (Remaining Relevant) Hubbard Brook LTER, used with permission. (Picturesque study system) Kristen Michaud, 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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