News Briefs

• @SGS: A paper co-authored by senior SGS LTER PhD students, Sarah E. Evans and Kerry M. Byrne, together with Ingrid “Indy” C. Burke, and William K.

We welcome articles and stories of a general nature that are of interest to the Long Term Ecological Research (LTER) community and our general readership.

John Moore, the Lead Principal Investigator at the Shortgrass Steppe (SGS) LTER and Professor of Forest, Rangeland and Watershed Stewardship and Director of the Natural Resource Ecology Laboratory

In September 2010, Nancy Grimm began a 2 year Program Officer rotation in the Division of Enviromental Biology at NSF.

Jeremiah Wright joined the LTER Network Office in September 2010 as a Network Information Systems Analyst and Programmer.

A Shortgrass Steppe LTER senior research scientist and former Co-PI, Dr.

The LTER Science Council (SC), assembled at the Plum Island Ecosystem LTER site for its annual meeting, selected Scott Collins (SEV) as the next Chair-elect of the Executive Board

A new study by the U. S. Geological Survey (USGS) reports that snow in the Colorado mountains is melting significantly earlier in the year than in the 1970s and that the changes appear to be related to recent climate trends.

A new report by researcher from the Harvard Forest and Hubbard Brooks Long Term Ecological Research (LTER) sites says that after almost 200 years of natural reforestation, forest cover is declining

On Tuesday, May 18, 2010, around 3:30 PM, Mark Lindquist, the Shortgrass Steppe (SGS) LTER field crew and 26 visitors at the SGS Research and Interpretive Center (RIC) watched the first on-the-grou