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This is the first of what we hope will become a regular column featuring humor, personal experiences, and reminiscences about life as an LTER researcher.

North America's biological field stations have long been home to a rich legacy of scientific and socially relevant studies, making them rich environments for serendipitous discoveries in the biological and environmental sciences.

Phenology, in the words of Aldo Leopold, is a "horizontal science" that cuts across and binds together multiple biological disciplines (Leopold and Jones 1947).

Some of society's most important scientific questions have little to do with space travel, human disease, theoretical physics, or new math.

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Recently a paper appeared in Nature (Mulholland et al.

Modern science is increasingly collaborative. But while collaboration has always been a part of science, those who collaborated in the past were often collocated.

A collaboration with the Center for Rapid Environmental Assessment and Terrain Evaluation (CREATE) at the University of New Mexico is providing near real-time satellite data for most LTER sites.

In October 2007 the Long Term Ecological Research (LTER) Network submitted to the National Science Foundation (NSF) our decadal plan, in which we laid out goals for the Network in three major areas

Golden foliage greeted a dozen writers and a handful of scientists at the Bonanza Creek (BNZ) LTER site outside of Fairbanks on a recent Sunday in September.

The Long Term Ecological Research (LTER) Network has released a new informational video, "Long Term Ecological Research: Addressing the Ecological Challenges of the 21st Century," that explains the