News Briefs

A recent article by the Union Tribune (featured online at SignOnSanDiego.com) highlights the ecological and socio-economic controversy surrounding beach grooming—a practice under study by marine ec

After 26 years as the climatologist for INSTAAR, the Mountain Research Station, and Niwot Ridge LTER (NWT), Mark Losleben is moving on towards bigger and better things.

In August 2006 John Vande Castle took on a half-time appointment as Executive Director for the Center for Rapid Environmental Assessment and Terrain Evaluation (CREATE) at the University of New Mex

An article in the Oct/Nov issue of the National Wildlife magazine titled "Natural Inquiries" by Mark Wexler features the Central Arizona-Phoenix (CAP) LTER site.

The Moorea Coral Reef (MCR) LTER site in French Polynesia was featured in Nature's special piece called "Science on the Solstice" (both in print and online) on June 29, 2006. To quote Nature:

Researchers at the Jornada Basin Long-Term Ecological Research (LTER) site in southern New Mexico have developed a new way to study the wide range of factors that influence changes in arid and semi

The Bonanza Creek (BNZ) Long Term Ecological Research (LTER) site was featured prominently in a detailed USA Today cover story Tuesday, May 31, 2006, focusing on global climate change.

A decade long grassland experiment conducted at the Cedar Creek Long-Term Ecological Research (LTER) site have shown that ecosystems containing many different plant species are not only more produc

The City of Baltimore has announced plans to increase tree canopy cover from the current 20 percent to about 40 percent.

The National Public Radio's (NPR) All Things Considered on Saturday, April 22 (Earth Day) carried an item about the NSF-funded BES residential carbon study.