Martha Downs - News Briefs

GCE climate research featured in PBS Newshour story on ocean expansion

tmcowiti — Thu, 24 Sep 2015 16:17:20 +0000

NSF highlights LTER projects to be featured at ESA

tmcowiti — Wed, 15 Jul 2015 17:49:21 +0000

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

LTER at ESA 2015

tmcowiti — Sun, 05 Jul 2015 23:44:29 +0000

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.&

Harvard Forest LTER research featured in Spectrum Magazine

tmcowiti — Mon, 06 Apr 2015 04:22:53 +0000

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

UK Environmental Change Network encouraging visits to European ecosystem research sites

tmcowiti — Sat, 11 Oct 2014 07:32:09 +0000

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

LTER at ESA 2014

tmcowiti — Mon, 14 Jul 2014 16:39:11 +0000

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

NASA awards NICE-T grants to Cedar Creek project

tmcowiti — Wed, 26 Mar 2014 20:27:56 +0000

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.

Nutrient Network grows, publishes

tmcowiti — Wed, 26 Mar 2014 18:32:35 +0000

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).

Photos of Science Council’s field trip to Jornada Basin LTER

tmcowiti — Fri, 28 Jun 2013 06:21:29 +0000

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

Harvard Forest publishes biennial report

tmcowiti — Fri, 28 Jun 2013 06:08:55 +0000

Harvard Forest’s 2013 biennial report, f