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.

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Details on an LTER event: Constructing Collaborations: An LTER Science Charrette. https://lternet.edu/events/ constructing-collaborations/ Planned Breakout Rooms Driver-response relationships under novel environmental conditions and new ecosystem states Motivating research framework The path forward with AI Science to Management with additional Topics on Request Building on new LTER roadmap Committed small-group facilitation Cultivating concrete projects with distributed leadership Looking towards: LTER Request for Synthesis Proposals Shared thinking on other funding and partnership opportunities Contact: Marty Downs downs@nceas.ucsb.edu for more info or questions

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...
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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
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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.

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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

Multiple Community Properties Drive Ecosystem Resistance and Resilience to Extreme Climate Events Across Mesic Grasslands Using nearly 40 years of data from naturally-assembled plant communities, we found that while richness is important for resistance to extreme dry events, dominance is important for resistance to extr....

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/...

Correct. The solicitation was archived last year. Tons of uncertainty here, as everywhere, but we aren't dead yet.

@lizneeley.bsky.social Thanks so much for the concern. Don't write us off yet. Tons of solicitations were archived last year at the same time as LTER and are now coming back. The program is still going.

Hey y'all. Love all the love for the program (we're pretty proud of it too). But the fact that the solicitation is archived does NOT mean that the program is shutting down. We're hanging in there, struggling through the uncertainty with everyone else.

2025-2026 Synthesis Groups, Part B: LTER Community Call - LTER April 8, 2026 @ 9:00 am-10:00 am - We'll hear from 2 LTER synthesis groups: 1) Life after death: how legacies of dead foundation species influence ecological processes across marine and terrestrial ec...

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.

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Modeling Upper Ocean Ecosystem Dynamics in Response to Interannual Sea‐Ice Variability in the Western Antarctic Peninsula Sea-ice retreat influences the timing and magnitude of phytoplankton production on the Western Antarctic Peninsula Years with late sea-ice retreat had higher seasonal production and a greater rel...

New PAL LTER paper @jgrbiogeo.bsky.social
Modeling Upper Ocean Ecosystem Dynamics in Response to Interannual Sea‐Ice Variability in the Western Antarctic Peninsula
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It’s not just science that happens on Forest Service Experimental Forests on the chopping block.

Recreation, art, music, too.

Example:

Arts and Humanities Working Group: David Paul Bayles and Fred Swanson - LTER April 2, 2026 @ 12:00 pm-1:00 pm - The LTER arts and humanities working group will host the next virtual get-together in our workshop series on April 2 at 3pm EST/12pm PST for those interested in adva...

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

Synthesis Skills for Early Career Researchers - LTER Group synthesis projects have the potential to develop high impact science and build strong supportive colleague networks—but they demand a set of skills that are rarely taught. In 2026, LTER launches...

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…

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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-...
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Life Unearthed with Ariel Waldman LIFE UNEARTHED with Ariel Waldman reveals Earth’s ecosystems at every scale.

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.
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Premiering April 1
with @mcm-lter.bsky.social and KNZ LTER

Announcing Smith Fellows Class of 2026! — Smith Fellows The David H. Smith Conservation Research Fellowship is proud to announce the seven members of our 2026 cohort — our largest incoming class to date, selected from a record number of applications submit...

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 structure that Jim and others conceived still holds this dedicated, creative, and oft-misunderstood network together.
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Resolution of Respect James Roman Gosz Click on the article title to read more.

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.
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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.

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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-...

Welcome. Great to see you here!

View of Green Lakes Valley from Niwot Ridge.

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...

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🌍 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.

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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.

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Missed the March community call with updates from the Consumer Absence Generated Ecological Dissimilarity (CAGED) and the Synthesis of Above- and Belowground Responses across Ecosystems (SABRE) Working groups? The recording is live: youtu.be/-q-kyQno9Bc?... and registration is open for April.

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

2025-2026 Synthesis Groups, Part A: LTER Community Call - LTER March 10, 2026 @ 10:00 am-11:00 am - LTER synthesis working groups bring together data from LTER and other research to discover common principles and mechanisms guiding how ecosystems function. For th...

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

logo with letters CAGED, surrounded by fish, zebra, and bison grazing on their prefrred food.

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...