In recent years, a number of LTER scientists have given interviews or featured prominently in discussions related to ecology and our natural environment. These interviews offer a glimpse into LTER science, whose focus is integrated, multi-scientist investigations that lead to major advances in understanding how ecosystems function, impacts on the management of ecosystems and pressing environmental problems, and education of future generations of scientists.
The most recent interview featured Mark Williams, who was interviewed by a CBS news affiliate in San Francisco during the American Geophysical Union conference (see Study Finds Global Warming May Shorten Ski Season). Williams' interview refers to work supported by LTER and funded by the National Science Foundation.
Bob Waide, director of the LTER Network Office, was interviewed by EarthSky radio (see Robert Waide on humans and nature as 'coupled'). Waide sits on EarthSky's Global Science Advisory Council.
Other LTER researchers and scientists who have been featured over the past few years include:
William Bowman, Niwot Ridge (NWT) LTER
- Mountain-diversity
- Alpine-nitrogen (http://www.earthsky.org/radioshows/44975/alpine-nitrogen)
- Project budburst
John Cooney, Natural World, October 23, 2008 (non-LTER author, LTER subject)
- H.J. Andrews Experimental Forest (MP3) (http://www.klcc.org/audio/nw102308.mp3)
Peter Doran, McMurdo Dry Valleys (MCM) LTER
- Ancient microbes
Peter Groffman, Baltimore Ecosystem Study (BES) LTER
- Urban Ecology
Berry Lyons, McMurdo Dry Valleys (MCM) LTER:
- Warming in Antarctica's polar desert
Debra Peters, Jornada (JRN) LTER
- Scientist studies the way ecosystems connect
- Beyond the Frontier: Continental-scale ecology in an increasingly connected world
David Siegel, Santa Barbara Coastal (SBC) LTER
- Warming ocean surface threatens marine food chain
Scott Swinton, Kellogg Biological Station (KBS) LTER
- Rural lands provide ecosystem services
Diana Wall, McMurdo Dry Valleys (MCM) LTER
- Small temperature changes, big effects on life
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