Education News

“In the last five years students in our SLTER Fall Grasshopper Inventory have added six species to the Konza Prairie grasshopper list,” says Valerie Wright, Environmental Educator

Harvard Forest (HFR) LTER hosted 20 teachers in a newly created Ecology Research in the Schoolyard Summer Institute for Teachers.

LTER education representatives met at Andrews Field Station August 29-31 and held three days of intense, multipurpose discussion.

This outreach program, funded as a supplement from the NSF Informal Education program to the Florida Coastal Everglades LTER (FCE), represents a joint project between FCE, Everglades National Park

In November 2003 the Ecological Society of America’s Strategies for Ecology Education, Development and Sustainability (SEEDS) program in collaboration with LTER sponsored an undergraduate field tri

-- Sonia Ortega, National Science Foundation and the LTER Network Office, with help from Laurel Hartley, Shortgrass Steppe LTER

It’s shaping up to be an active year for Education in LTER. As you can see, we need full participation from everyone to get the most out of our planned activities.

The PIE LTER Schoolyard program is partnering with Mass Audubon to expand their Salt Marsh Science Project.

The Coweeta LTER Program has a long history of formal and informal outreach to user groups in local, national, and international communities. Our outreach includes:

A new feature on the Konza LTER website features data collected and input by SLTER students.