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Passionate about bringing broad and diverse communities together around environmental science and ecology? Want to support and promote engagement with cutting-edge environmental science programs and data science initiatives? Excel at connecting people and ideas and strategically building relationships across diverse groups?
The Long Term Ecological Research Network Office and the National Center for Ecological Analysis and Synthesis (NCEAS) seek a Community Engagement Officer to lead initiatives to support and expand our existing networks and create new connections across science and management groups. A great opportunity to join two leading environmental science and ecology institution with a global reach.
UCSB is an AA/EOE, including disability/vets.
See more about the position >>
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Announcing 7 New LTER Synthesis Groups
Earlier this month, we announced the 2023 LTER Synthesis Working Groups! Seven new groups join us this year: three full working groups funded for several meetings over two years, and four SPARC groups funded for a single meeting this year.
Kick off meetings for the groups have already begun, and we're excited to welcome them to NCEAS in the spring.
See the working groups here >>
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 EDI Webinar: An update from the EDI Units Working Group
Tuesday 21 February 2023 at 2 pm EST (11 am PST)
Conveying the units of a measurement accurately and understandably is an essential component of generating reproducible data. The EDI Units working group is examining available unit technologies and discussing ways these can be incorporated into EML metadata. In this webinar, we will present progress working with QUDT and UCUM, such as analyzing current datasets and mapping their units to these systems. We will also present potential paths forward for further discussion.
New EDI Publication
This is EDI's "evaluation" publication — sort of a summary of the last several years of progress.
Gries, C., Hanson, P. C., O’Brien, M., Servilla, M., Vanderbilt, K., & Waide, R. (2023). The Environmental Data Initiative: Connecting the past to the future through data reuse. Ecology and Evolution, 13, e9592.
https://doi.org/10.1002/ece3.9592
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 Specimen Management Plan Discussion Webinar, hosted by AIBS
Tuesday, February 7, 2023, 11 am PT/2:00 PM ET
The Biodiversity Collections Network ( BCoN) and the U.S. Culture Collection Network ( USCCN) are holding a joint webinar discussion on the need for a Specimen Management Plan requirement in research proposals that generate living or preserved specimens. Recommended by the National Academies’ report on biological collections in 2020, this requirement is now supported by the recently enacted CHIPS and Science Act. Register here >>
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Arts at environmental field science sites survey 2022—FSML / LTER / NERR
The Organization of Biological Field Stations (OBFS) is surveying Field Stations and Marine Labs (FSMLs), Long Term Ecological Research sites (LTERs), and National Estuarine Research Reserves (NERRs) on their existing, planned, and developing arts and humanities programming. Their goal is to help each site identify goals with your arts and humanities programs, make those programs more effective, network to support each other, and find funding to support those aims. |
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 The National Microbiome Data Collaborative Ambassador Program
The Ambassador Program utilizes a community learning approach to train and support early career researchers motivated to engage with their respective microbiome research communities and spread awareness and knowledge regarding data stewardship, metadata standards, and bioinformatics workflows.
See more about the program here >>
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 Polar Postdoc Leadership Workshop
The 2023 Polar Postdoctoral Leadership Workshop (PPLW) will be taking place in Colorado, from May 15 to 19, 2023. The workshop will bring 20 US-based postdoctoral researchers studying Antarctic and Arctic topics together from across the country to activate leadership skills that they can bring into their future careers. Participation in the workshop is free and travel support will be provided. Participants will be selected by The Polar Science Early Career Community Office PPLW Selection Committee, with a goal of establishing a discipline-, geographic-, and holistically diverse cohort.
Learn more and apply for the workshop here >>
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NCAR-NEON-Community Workshop
 This year’s NCAR-NEON workshop linking geoscience and ecology will focus on using NCAR-NEON modeling and data visualization tools to develop new research avenues and obtaining feedback on how this collaboration can best serve the community going forward.
May 31st – June 2nd, 2023 at NCAR Mesa Lab in Boulder, CO with in-person and (partial) virtual participation. Funding is available for attendee travel and lodging.
In-person applicants must complete the Workshop Application by Friday February 17th at 5 pm MST.
For additional information, email Mike SanClements (sanclements@battelle.org) or Gordon Bonan (bonan@ucar.edu) with the subject line “NCAR-NEON Workshop”.
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Communicating Scientific Knowledge Workshops
 Sound Solutions for Sustainable Science (S4) is offering a series of three professional development workshops on Communicating Scientific Knowledge.
- Creating Scientific Posters (02/16/2023)
- Crafting Oral Presentations (03/16/2023)
Workshops are independent and any of the three can be taken by itself. Each workshop is worth 0.5 CEUs towards Professional Certification with the Ecological Society of America. Register at Eventbrite.
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LTER Committee Meetings and LTER-related events are available for your reference at any time on the LTER Network Calendar.
- Tuesday, February 7, 2023, 11 am PT/2:00 PM ET: Specimen Management Plan Discussion Webinar. Register here.
- February 13, 2023: NCEAS CoreR Workshop Registration Due
February 16, 2023, 11am PT/2:00 pm ET: Creating Scientific Posters workshop by S4
- February 21, 2023, 11am PT/2pm ET: EDI Webinar: An update from the EDI Units Working Group
- February 23, 2023: Abstract submission deadline for Ecological Society of America Annual Meeting
- March 16, 2023, 11am PT/2:00 pm ET: Crafting Oral Presentations workshop by S4
- May 10-12, 2023: LTER Science Council Annual Meeting.
- May 15 to 19, 2023: PSECCO Polar Postdoc Leadership Workshop
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DEIA Resource of the Month
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 FieldFutures Workshop
The FieldFutures workshop trains participants to prevent, intervene in, and effectively report incidents of sexual harassment and assault in field settings. Through a series of practical intervention scenarios led by a skilled facilitator, participants will learn and practice tangible prevention skills via positive organizational climate-setting. Find out more here>>
DEIA Resource of the month is brought to you by the Diversity, Equity, Inclusion, and Justice Committee. Contact Committee chairs Nameer Baker (nameerbaker@gmail.com) or Mariah Patton (mtpatton@umn.edu) for additional information.
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Spare a thought for the roots
By Katie Sperry
A new study in the Journal Ecology finds that nutrient addition increases aboveground plant growth more than it increases belowground plant growth, suggesting that belowground ecology cannot be predicted from studies conducted only aboveground. Read more >>
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Data Analysts at the LTER boost working group productivity
By Gabriel De La Rosa
The LTER Network Office hired two data analysts, Angel Chen and Nick Lyon, in 2022 to tackle short but critical wrangling tasks during working groups’ in-person meetings. Here's how they've helped groups during the past year. Read more >>
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The Kellogg Biological Station LTER was featured twice on the In the Weeds podcast! Listen to the episodes on organic matter and prairie strips.
The Virginia Coast Reserve had their annual All Scientists' Meeting in person this year—the first in-person VCR ASM in three years!
Mary Beth Leigh and Lissy Goralnik's article In a Time Of Change, featuring arts and sciences work at the Bonanza Creek and Arctic LTERs, was part of an award winning special issue of the Groundworks journal!
Harvard Forest released their Spring Seminar schedule, hybrid and open to the public. Does your site have a virtual/hybrid webinar series? Send it along to share across the network!
The Baltimore Ecosystem Study featured on NPR in a story titled How Redlining Shaped Baltimore’s Tree Canopy.
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LTER Publications of Interest
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The more than 25,494 LTER-related papers are available on the LTER Network website, searchable by site, author, keyword, and publication type. The Network bibliography is also available at the LTER Network Zotero Group Library. Follow this public group for regular updates.
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REU Opportunities
Other Opportunities
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Postdoctoral Fellow Opportunities
Research and Career Opportunities
Advancing Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion
Education Opportunities
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https://www.instagram.com/p/CnpG7-4LXso/?hl=en 
It's always nice to see LTER graduate students highlighted by other institutions—with all the amazing work they do, they definitely deserve it! And it's equally great to see the vibrant communities at each LTER get together and talk science. Can't wait to get wind of the new ideas that came out of that meeting!
Remember to tag us on twitter at @USLTER for retweets and possible features! And give @lter_community a follow on Instagram!
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