Excited for the June LTER Community Call on how can ecological research can help assess (and improve) the effectiveness of climate adaptation actions. We'll hear from Meaghan Oldfather and Sarah Weiskopf of the Climate Adaptation Science Centers. lternet.edu/events/evalu... @nceas-ucsb.bsky.social

Working with Cedar Creek data? In addition to the broader LTER synthesis opportunity, Cedar Creek funds working groups that synthesize Cedar Creek data (with or without other sites). The deadline for proposals is coming up fast (June 5). cedarcreek.umn.edu/cedar-creek-...

Yes, physical archives are a huge issue (a point that the collections community has argued for a long time). So is the stability of disciplinary data repositories and transition planning/funding for site retirement. The Governance Gap Threatening Long-Term Ecological Archives eos.org/opinions/the...

Apply for the Headwaters Leadership Academy! 📅 Deadline: Monday, June 15 This program for early career freshwater scientists provides mentorship, service, and professional development opportunities beyond typical training offered in traditional academic settings. Learn more here: buff.ly/rwLK01F

NES-LTER Data Jam 2026 projects are rolling in! We love student creativity describing patterns and reasoning about data. Pictured: Scratch game designed by 5th graders at Morse Pond School in Falmouth MA, based on NMFS trawl data. tinyurl.com/NES-LTERData... @uslter.bsky.social @whoi.edu

Across the grasslands of the central United States, drought reaches below the surface, reshaping microbial life in ways that differ from dry plains to wetter prairies. Yet even after disruption, underground communities recover quickly, revealing a quiet resilience beneath the soil. 🌐🧪

Really looking forward to tomorrow's LTER Community-plus call to develop the rubber-meets-the-roadmap projects that put our new strategic plan into action. Join us if you want to help think about where LTER science goes next. lternet.edu/events/const...

Did you miss our first "Flash Talk Friday"? Eight LTER graduate students working in ecosystems from the Everglades to the Northern Gulf of Alaska, share 5-minute tastes of their science. Recording is now available: youtu.be/67nWjwhrW5U

Flash talk Friday is coming April 24. Join LTER grad students for 10 talks, from 10 sites. Get a speed tour of LTER research-in-progress. lternet.edu/events/flash...

LTER Network Office funds synthesis working groups and partners with organizations with shared goals. Join our May 6 Science Charrette to collaborate on ideas. lternet.edu/events/const... @usapecs.bsky.social @naturalareas.bsky.social @yalecncc.bsky.social @cerfscience.bsky.social

Opening for an Information Manager to lead data management for the Virginia Coast Reserve Long Term Ecological Research Project (VCR LTER), based at the University of Virginia. MS- or PhD-level position with the expectation of long-term support. @uslter.bsky.social jobs.virginia.edu/us/en/job/R0...

Sifting through cross-site @uslter.bsky.social data, researchers found plots with greater biodiversity were more resistant to extreme climatic events. But the key dimensions of biodiversity that helped them cope in wet years weren’t the same as those for dry years. eeb.msu.edu/news/from-de...

Missed today's NSF LTER community call? The recording, featuring the "Life after Death" working group and the "Consumer Functional and Taxonomic Diversity" working group is now live on our YouTube: youtu.be/K4SRfOfvwiQ @kaikopecky.bsky.social @cu-esiil.bsky.social @nceas-ucsb.bsky.social

Combining LTER sites (as this group of grads and postdocs did) -> even more powerful insights. Multiple Community Properties Drive Ecosystem Resistance and Resilience to Extreme Climate Events Across Mesic Grasslands - Ajowele - 2026 - Ecology Letters onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

Our April LTER Community Call will feature two active working groups: *Life After Death* looking at the legacy of dead foundation species and *consumer taxonomic and functional diversity and nutrient cycling* Join us 04/08 at 9 am PT. lternet.edu/events/2025-...

New PAL LTER paper @jgrbiogeo.bsky.social Modeling Upper Ocean Ecosystem Dynamics in Response to Interannual Sea‐Ice Variability in the Western Antarctic Peninsula doi.org/10.1029/2025... @uvaenvisci.bsky.social @instaar.bsky.social @whoi.edu i.edu @marine.rutgers.edu @uslter.bsky.social ky.social

It’s not just science that happens on Forest Service Experimental Forests on the chopping block. Recreation, art, music, too. Example:

Calling all sci-art-humanities collaborators in the long term ecological research sphere. LTER's arts-humanities working group meets tomorrow (Thursday, April 2) with sp. guests David Paul Bayles and Fred Swanson. lternet.edu/events/dpb-a... @davidbuckleyborden.bsky.social @marybethleigh.bsky.social

Thinking of applying to our Fall 2026 (all virtual) Synthesis Skills for Early Career Researchers (SSECR) course? Deadline is TOMORROW, March 31. lternet.edu/ssecr/

Sad state of affairs…

Thinking of proposing an LTER synthesis working group? Our informational webinar is happening Wednesday, March 24 at 9 am PT. Join us to learn about the opportunity: lternet.edu/stories/rfp-... @nceas-ucsb.bsky.social @cu-esiil.bsky.social @cuahsi.bsky.social @ecologicalsociety.bsky.social

LIFE UNEARTHED is a visually striking science-driven docu-series revealing Earth’s ecosystems—from microscopic wildlife to the planet’s most iconic species, and even the potential for life beyond Earth. www.pbs.org/show/life-un... Premiering April 1 with @mcm-lter.bsky.social and KNZ LTER

We are thrilled to announce the 2026 Class of SmithFellows! Congratulations to Christina De Jesús Villanueva, Prashant Ghimire, Markus Min, Tessa Rhinehart, Stephanie Valdez, Leon Tran, and Jason Toy. www.smithfellows.org/updates/anno...

The LTER Network was built (and continues to be sustained) by a group of people who love working out the beautiful puzzle that is ecosystem functioning. Jim Gosz inspired a generation of ecologists, secured LTER, and built ILTER. esajournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...

Congrats to newly-awarded @cu-esiil.bsky.social ESIIL working groups! Excited to see what the "AI in a Day" working group produces re: GenAI training for environmental scientists. esiil.org/news-events/...

Congrats @kaikopecky.bsky.social ! Kai and colleagues will discuss their investigations into the broader legacy of foundation species remains across ecosystems at the @uslter.bsky.social April 8 community call. Please join us to learn more. lternet.edu/events/2025-...

Come work with us! We're hiring summer field technicians to conduct ecology research in the Colorado Rocky Mountains! nwt.lternet.edu/news/apply-n... @official-bweems.bsky.social @sacnas.bsky.social @fieldinclusive.bsky.social @geolatinas.bsky.social @500womensci.bsky.social #AISES #LGBTSTEM

🌍 Eight synthesis centres, led by sDiv, have completed a joint call on biodiversity & climate change. 💡14 projects + postdocs 💡1.7 million euros 💡214 researchers 💬 @smartenwinter.bsky.social: Researchers will be launching initiatives at a scale we could previously only dream of. shorturl.at/UvMsu

Get your science into the hands of practitioners! Natural Areas Conference: Where Science Meets Stewardship, October 5-8, 2026, in Asheville, NC is accepting abstract submissions. Special topic: ongoing recovery from Hurricane Helene. Deadline: April 30, 2026. www.naturalareas.org/2026_natural...

Hey, that's our PI, Heidi Sosik! And she's just one amongst so many other women on our project making waves in ocean science and engineering! @uslter.bsky.social @urigso.bsky.social #nsf

LTER data synthesis draws on 45 years of experiments and observations across dozens of diverse ecosystems to understand the mechanisms they share. March 10 @ 10 am PT: lternet.edu/events/2025-... - how grazing changes ecosystem structure - connections between above -and below-ground communities

Thinking of submitting a proposal for synthesis? Get some inspiration from synthesis groups. LTER Community call on Tuesday, March 10 will include presentations from the "consumer absence generates ecological dissimilaity (CAGED)" and "above-below ground" working groups. ucsb.zoom.us/meeting/regi...

@nceas-ucsb.bsky.social @ecologicalsociety.bsky.social @esipfed.bsky.social @kbslter.bsky.social @ntl-lter.bsky.social @msp-lter.bsky.social @pie-lter.bsky.social @mcm-lter.bsky.social @sbc-lter.bsky.social @gce-lter.bsky.social @niwotridgelter.bsky.social @cznews.bsky.social @ameriflux.bsky.social

LTER has a flurry of opportunities coming up: 1) Site Exchanges (lternet.edu/stories/site...) Deadline: March 16 2) Synthesis Skills for Early Career Researchers (lternet.edu/ssecr/) March 31 3) Request for Synthesis Proposals (lternet.edu/stories/requ...) Deadline: September 16 Spread the word!

Science at Risk: The Urgent Need for Institutional Support of Long-Term Ecological and Evolutionary Research in an Era of Data Manipulation and Disinformation url: academic.oup.com/bioscience/a...

ESA is now doing regional meetings! Looking for a smaller, more manageable-able, carbon-friendly meetings? This is your chance.

New #NASEM Standing Committee for Earth Observations, Data, and Information Systems - learn more and apply here by March 10! tinyurl.com/3t234yzu Speak up for #oceanscience! 🌊

If you're an early career researcher interested in synthesis science you should apply to the @uslter.bsky.social's Synthesis Skills for Early Career Researchers course! I loved being a SSECR fellow and the program is being offered again this year, albeit with a few changes 📉 lternet.edu/ssecr/

@kbslter.bsky.social @gce-lter.bsky.social @ntl-lter.bsky.social @msp-lter.bsky.social @pie-lter.bsky.social @mcm-lter.bsky.social @sbc-lter.bsky.social @niwotridgelter.bsky.social @gleonetwork.bsky.social @caryinstitute.bsky.social @toolikfieldstation.bsky.social

Site exchanges are open for applications! Join our Wednesday community call to hear about last year's projects (including aquatic and dryland eddy-covariance, bio-optical sensors, and zooplankton imaging systems) and this year's eligibility. Open to potential partners. lternet.edu/events/site-...

Super interesting work by our Post-Doc, Lucas Medeiros: A Nonequilibrium Framework for Community Responses to Pulse Perturbations - Medeiros - 2026 - Ecology Letters - Wiley Online Library onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/... @whoi.edu @uslter.bsky.social #nsffunded

Huge thanks to collaborators Kristen Davis & Peter Edmunds and to @stanforddoerr.bsky.social, and #MCRLTER + #NSF + @uslter.bsky.social network for long-term support. Curious about portfolio effects in #marine #ecosystems? Let’s talk! doi.org/10.1111/ele.70324

The Hubbard Brook Forest Data Jam is a juried competition, inviting students, artists, musicians, scientists, and coders to create original works inspired by real long-term forest data from the Hubbard Brook Experimental Forest. Deadline coming fast!! data-jam.replit.app

I would strongly encourage those who value the scientific & societal legacies of NCAR to offer feedback by March 13. I would expect, under present circumstances, perspectives from industry partners will be especially critical, though everyone's voice is of course important.

LTERs are great training grounds for the sort of multi-talented researchers that modern ecology needs. We combine multi-disciplinary field experiences with decades of contextual data. @ilter-network.bsky.social www.nature.com/articles/d41...

View the video of this morning's community call update on the new LTER strategic plan here: youtu.be/TlrjJTX7Fco

Missed this morning's LTER community call? Check out the video on our YouTube channel: lnkd.in/gfq2Z3D9

Join us tomorrow, January 14, to hear about the new LTER Network roadmap for the coming decade. What are our science priorities and how are we planning to advance them? How can you connect? Overview and discussion: Wednesday, January 14 at 9 am PT (Noon ET). lternet.edu/events/lter-...

It's winter transect cruise time on the Northeast US Shelf and we're lucky to be heading out on the RV Neil Armstrong next week. Understanding the valuable ecosystem on the shelf and how it responds to change over the long term is such critical work. Funded by NSF. @uslter.bsky.social @whoi.edu

Over 80 Michigan farmers are teaming up w/ @sprunger.bsky.social at @kelloggbiostn.bsky.social to explore the impact different agricultural practices on soil health, ecosystem diversity and crop productivity. www.grainjournal.com/article/1121...