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The ecology of cities across the U.S., spread of infectious diseases such as Ebola, worldwide forests under siege, and how life thrives in Earth's critical zone are among the topics featured at the

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Network News Summer 2015, Vol. 28 No. 2

The Long Term Ecological Research (LTER) Network will have a strong presence at the centennial meeting of the Ecological Society of America (ESA) in Baltimore, Maryland, from August 8 to 14, 2015.&

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Network News Spring 2015, Vol. 28 No. 1

The latest issue of IEEE Spectrum Magazine includes a comprehensive feature of LTER research infrastructure at the Harvard Forest.

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Network News Fall 2014, Vol. 27 No. 3

The UK Environmental Change Network (ECN) is inviting members of the US Long Term Ecological Research (LTER) community to apply for funds to visit some European ecosystem research sites via the Exp

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Network News Summer 2014, Vol. 27 No. 2

The Long Term Ecological Research (LTER) Network will have a strong presence at the 99th annual meeting of the Ecological Society of America in Sacramento, California, from August 10 to 15, 2014.&n

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Network News Spring 2014, Vol. 27 No. 1

The National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) recently awarded about $1m to a project involving Cedar Creek (CDR) Long Term Ecological Research (LTER) scientists. The NASA Innovations in Climate Education-Tribal [NICE-T] grant was awarded to project Gidakiimanaaniwigamig (Our Earth Lodge) STEM Camp: Investigating climate change and its effect on Ojibwe life ways, which is jointly run by the North Star AISES Alliance & Professional Chapter (NSAAP), the Fond du Lac Tribal and Community college; and the Cedar Creek Ecological Reserve.

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Network News Spring 2014, Vol. 27 No. 1

The Nutrient Network (NutNet) continues to expand and now has 75 sites across five continents. With eight participating sites from the Long Term Ecological Research (LTER) Network (AND, CDR, JRN, KBS, KNZ, NWT, SEV, SGS), NutNet is one of the largest cross-LTER studies using consistent methods. The initial result of some of its work  was recently published in the journal Nature (see http://bit.ly/1ndBEAO and http://bit.ly/1liJXr3).  

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Network News Summer 2013, Vol. 26 No. 2

John Porter (VCR) has kindly made available photos from the field trip to the Jornada Basin (JRN) Long Term Ecological Research (LTER) site in southern New Mexico during the Science Council meeting