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February 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

March LTER Community Call


Synthesis Skills for Early Career Researchers 

March 27, 2023

Our March LTER Community Call presents our new Synthesis Skills for Early Career Researchers course, which is currently in development at the LTER Network Office.  

Join the March Community Call to learn about the course plan and opportunities to take part as a project science mentor or a participant.

Community Calls take place every fourth 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.

Build Your Mentoring Skills

The Entering Mentoring program is an evidence-based mentoring approach specifically tailored to STEMM researchers. The LTER Network is piloting a free in-network offering of this workshop series. Learn more and apply to join the two-session series (April 18 and May 2).

FieldFutures Bystander Intervention training

In 2024, the LTER Network Office will offer two FieldFutures workshops designed to prevent harassment and assault in fieldwork.


These workshops are designed for LTER researchers who expect to be in leadership roles in the coming field season. This includes, but is not limited to, investigators, graduate students, postdocs, and staff.

  • Tuesday April 23 at 10:30-Noon PT (1:30-3:00 p.m. ET)

  • Tuesday, May 14 at 10:30-Noon PT (1:30-3:00 p.m. ET)


For more information and registration, see the program webpage.

February LTER Community Call Recording now online

Watch Haley Branch’s talk, Increasing Diversity in Fieldwork through Access Transparency, on our YouTube channel.

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

Equipment Repositories for Accessibility: A Model for Improving Access in Field Science

MSP LTER graduate student Charlotte Devitz has spent a lot of time thinking about how field stations can be more accessible to people with disabilities. One idea is to create equipment repositories. These repositories lend equipment, such as offroad wheelchairs, to individuals that might need them to get around field sites; the program enables a broad range of people to participate in field work while mitigating financial costs to the individual. You can read her full paper here >>


For a more general overview, read an interview with Charlotte in the Integrative and Comparative Biology blog, which covers a lot of information around making fieldwork inclusive for those with disabilities.

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

Fungal Friendships

by Katie Sperry


By culturing fungi living within salt marsh plants, Postdoctoral Researcher Dr. Kylea Garces and PhD student Mya Darsan can learn not only what fungi are present, but how they benefit their plant hosts. Read more>>

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

Don’t stick your hand in there – a story about caution and observation on the reefs of Moorea.

by Adelaide Dahl


“I would return to the same bommies each day and, as I did on the well-worn trails of New Hampshire, noticed something new with each dive.” Read more about life underwater at the MCR LTER >>

Around the Network


Check out Jon Schroth’s Cycles of Gaia, an ecological calendar for southern New England, created with Harvard Forest LTER data.

LTER in the News

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. 

Jobs & Fellowships

Funding

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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Photo Credits (top to bottom): (DEIA Resource) MSP LTER, CC BY-SA 4.0.; (Fungal Friendships) Katie Sperry, CC BY-SA 4.0.; (Don’t Stick) Adelaide Dahl, 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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