Education News

Amy H. Rinehart has been appointed Series Editor for the Long Term Ecological Network (LTER) Schoolyard Book Series through the National Science Foundation (NSF). The position is based at the International Artic and Alpine Research (INSTAAR) headquarters at the University of Colorado-Boulder. 

A last-minute funding availability allowed the Education Committee to assemble for its annual meeting August 22-24, 2013, at Cedar Creek (CDR) Long Term Ecological Research (LTER) site in Minnesota. Thirteen site representatives and two graduate student members traveled to the Land ‘O Lakes for a weekend of sub-committee reports, brainstorming and goal-setting, mixed with hikes, bonfires and al fresco dining on the edge of the prairie. In addition to setting achievable goals for the upcoming year, members acknowledged Steven McGee for his two terms as co- chair of the Education Committee.

The long-awaited Long Term Ecological Research (LTER) Education Digital Library has gone live.  The work of education coordinators across the Network, Marshall White at the LTER Network Office, and the digital library working group led by Beth Simmons, the library was unveiled on September 23.  We will make a network-wide announcement along with the URL for the site soon. It’s going to be great….don’t miss it!

Several coastal Long Term Ecological Research (LTER) sites have teamed up to offer an online graduate course, “Linking biology and geomorphology in coastal wetlands (and other habitats)”. The course is a unique opportunity for graduate students to learn from experts in the field, who are distributed across multiple universities.

On Saturday, August 17, 2013, the Bosque Ecosystem Monitoring Program (BEMP) science coordinator, Jennifer Schuetz, based at the UNM Department of Biology, was featured on the KUNM Children’s Hour

Harvard Forest Schoolyard Ecology teacher Lise LeTellier was honored in June at the Massachusetts State House with a first

The Long Term Ecological Research (LTER) Higher Education Working Group, officially convened during the All-Scientists’ Meeting (ASM) in Estes Park in 2012, has been tasked with improving the educa

It has long been acknowledged within the Long Term Ecological Research (LTER) Network that education is integral to the mission of the Network and that graduate students exemplify the spirit of