<div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail-vc_row gmail-wpb_row gmail-vc_row-fluid" style="box-sizing:border-box;color:rgb(83,83,83);font-family:"Open Sans",sans-serif;font-size:14px;background-color:rgb(241,241,241)"><div class="gmail-wpb_column gmail-vc_column_container gmail-vc_col-sm-12" style="box-sizing:border-box;width:789.594px;min-height:1px;padding-left:0px;padding-right:0px;float:left"><div class="gmail-vc_column-inner" style="box-sizing:border-box;padding-left:15px;padding-right:15px;width:789.594px"><div class="gmail-wpb_wrapper" style="box-sizing:border-box"><div class="gmail-wpb_single_image gmail-wpb_content_element gmail-vc_align_center" style="box-sizing:border-box;margin-bottom:35px;text-align:center"><div class="gmail-vc_single_image-wrapper gmail-vc_box_border_grey" style="box-sizing:border-box;display:inline-block;vertical-align:top;max-width:100%"><img width="680" height="148" src="https://lternet.edu/wp-content/uploads/2019/08/LTER-Network-news-2019-scaled-2010x437.png" class="gmail-vc_single_image-img gmail-attachment-large" alt="" style="box-sizing: border-box; border: 0px; vertical-align: top; max-width: 100%; height: auto;"></div></div><div class="gmail-wpb_text_column gmail-wpb_content_element" style="box-sizing:border-box;margin-bottom:35px"><div class="gmail-wpb_wrapper" style="box-sizing:border-box;margin-bottom:0px"><p style="box-sizing:border-box;margin:0px 0px 10px;text-align:right">February 2020</p><p style="box-sizing:border-box;margin:0px"><em style="box-sizing:border-box;margin-bottom:0px">LTER Network News is a forum for sharing news and activities from across the LTER Network. This is our water cooler. If you have personnel changes, new grants, or cross-Network activities that might interest your LTER colleagues, please send them along to <a href="mailto:weiss@nceas.ucsb.edu">weiss@nceas.ucsb.edu</a>.</em></p></div></div><div class="gmail-vc_separator gmail-wpb_content_element gmail-vc_separator_align_center gmail-vc_sep_width_100 gmail-vc_sep_border_width_6 gmail-vc_sep_pos_align_center gmail-vc_sep_color_peacoc gmail-vc_separator-has-text" style="box-sizing:border-box;margin-bottom:35px;display:flex;width:759.594px;margin-left:auto;margin-right:auto"><span class="gmail-vc_sep_holder gmail-vc_sep_holder_l" style="box-sizing:border-box;height:1px;min-width:10%"><span class="gmail-vc_sep_line" style="box-sizing:border-box;height:1px;border-top:6px solid rgb(76,173,201);display:block;width:311.188px;border-right-color:rgb(76,173,201);border-bottom-color:rgb(76,173,201);border-left-color:rgb(76,173,201)"></span></span><h4 style="box-sizing:border-box;font-family:inherit;line-height:1em;color:inherit;margin:0px;padding:0px 0.8em">Announcements</h4><span class="gmail-vc_sep_holder gmail-vc_sep_holder_r" style="box-sizing:border-box;height:1px;min-width:10%"><span class="gmail-vc_sep_line" style="box-sizing:border-box;height:1px;border-top:6px solid rgb(76,173,201);display:block;width:311.188px;border-right-color:rgb(76,173,201);border-bottom-color:rgb(76,173,201);border-left-color:rgb(76,173,201)"></span></span></div><div class="gmail-wpb_text_column gmail-wpb_content_element" style="box-sizing:border-box;margin-bottom:35px"><div class="gmail-wpb_wrapper" style="box-sizing:border-box;margin-bottom:0px"><p style="box-sizing:border-box;margin:0px 0px 10px"><span style="box-sizing:border-box;font-weight:700">Openings for EDI Soil Harmonization Workshop</span><span style="box-sizing:border-box"> (14-16 April, 2020): Environmental Data Initiative (EDI) is planning a </span><a href="https://environmentaldatainitiative.org/webinars-events/edi-workshop-on-soils-harmonization/" style="box-sizing:border-box;background-color:transparent;color:rgb(4,176,191);text-decoration-line:none"><span style="box-sizing:border-box;margin-bottom:0px">thematic data harmonization workshop</span></a><span style="box-sizing:border-box"> in Santa Barbara, CA focused on soil data and their use in synthesis. There are still a few openings for participants, who may be producers or consumers of soil data. Please contact Margaret O’Brien (</span><a href="mailto:margaret.obrien@ucsb.edu" style="box-sizing:border-box;background-color:transparent;color:rgb(4,176,191);text-decoration-line:none"><span style="box-sizing:border-box;margin-bottom:0px">margaret.obrien@ucsb.edu</span></a><span style="box-sizing:border-box;margin-bottom:0px">) for more information on what’s involved.</span></p><p style="box-sizing:border-box;margin:0px 0px 10px"><span style="box-sizing:border-box;font-weight:700">Upcoming EDI Webinars</span><span style="box-sizing:border-box">: February 25, 2020 at 2PM ET “</span><a href="https://environmentaldatainitiative.org/webinars-events/annotation-in-eml-2-2/" style="box-sizing:border-box;background-color:transparent;color:rgb(4,176,191);text-decoration-line:none"><span style="box-sizing:border-box;margin-bottom:0px">Annotation in EML 2.2</span></a><span style="box-sizing:border-box">”, and April 7, 2020 at 2PM ET: </span><a href="https://zoom.us/meeting/register/v5MocOmqrToiAFFk6aXQkg9gre_HkRR_aw" style="box-sizing:border-box;background-color:transparent;color:rgb(4,176,191);text-decoration-line:none"><span style="box-sizing:border-box;margin-bottom:0px">EDI Q&A</span></a><span style="box-sizing:border-box;margin-bottom:0px">  — Join EDI team members for this webinar with your questions and feedback on everything EDI.</span></p><p style="box-sizing:border-box;margin:0px 0px 10px"><span style="box-sizing:border-box;font-weight:700">SACNAS</span><span style="box-sizing:border-box"> is hosting a </span><a href="https://www.sacnas.org/professional-programs/" style="box-sizing:border-box;background-color:transparent;color:rgb(4,176,191);text-decoration-line:none"><span style="box-sizing:border-box;margin-bottom:0px">Grant Writing and Peer Review Workshop</span></a> <span style="box-sizing:border-box;font-weight:700">May 1-3, 2020</span><span style="box-sizing:border-box"> to equip early career STEM professionals, in either biology or STEM education, to write a successful grant proposal for NSF funding. Apply by </span><span style="box-sizing:border-box;font-weight:700">Feb 21</span><span style="box-sizing:border-box;margin-bottom:0px">. </span></p><p style="box-sizing:border-box;margin:0px"><span style="box-sizing:border-box">The Japan LTER Network will host two International summer courses for grad students on </span><span style="box-sizing:border-box;font-weight:700">Marine Biology and Ecology</span><span style="box-sizing:border-box"> (</span><a href="https://hokkaidosummerinstitute.oia.hokudai.ac.jp/courses/CourseDetail=G058" style="box-sizing:border-box;background-color:transparent;color:rgb(4,176,191);text-decoration-line:none"><span style="box-sizing:border-box;margin-bottom:0px">Level 2</span></a><span style="box-sizing:border-box"> and </span><a href="https://hokkaidosummerinstitute.oia.hokudai.ac.jp/courses/CourseDetail=G066" style="box-sizing:border-box;background-color:transparent;color:rgb(4,176,191);text-decoration-line:none"><span style="box-sizing:border-box;margin-bottom:0px">Level 3</span></a><span style="box-sizing:border-box">) at Akkeshi JaLTER-Site in Hokkaido, Japan in July 2020. Applications due </span><span style="box-sizing:border-box;font-weight:700">Feb 21 and April 3</span><span style="box-sizing:border-box;margin-bottom:0px">, respectively.</span></p><p style="box-sizing:border-box;margin:0px"><span style="box-sizing:border-box;margin-bottom:0px"><br></span></p><p style="box-sizing:border-box;margin:0px"><span style="box-sizing:border-box;margin-bottom:0px">The <b>NCEAS Learning Hub</b> is now offering <a href="https://www.nceas.ucsb.edu/learning-hub/short-course">week-long trainings in reproducible research techniques for synthesis</a>. Learn to make your data and analysis re-usable (by yourself and others). The next short course is <b>May 11-15</b>.<br></span></p></div></div><div class="gmail-vc_separator gmail-wpb_content_element gmail-vc_separator_align_center gmail-vc_sep_width_100 gmail-vc_sep_border_width_6 gmail-vc_sep_pos_align_center gmail-vc_sep_color_peacoc gmail-vc_separator-has-text" style="box-sizing:border-box;margin-bottom:35px;display:flex;width:759.594px;margin-left:auto;margin-right:auto"><span class="gmail-vc_sep_holder gmail-vc_sep_holder_l" style="box-sizing:border-box;height:1px;min-width:10%"><span class="gmail-vc_sep_line" style="box-sizing:border-box;height:1px;border-top:6px solid rgb(76,173,201);display:block;width:316.938px;border-right-color:rgb(76,173,201);border-bottom-color:rgb(76,173,201);border-left-color:rgb(76,173,201)"></span></span><h4 style="box-sizing:border-box;font-family:inherit;line-height:1em;color:inherit;margin:0px;padding:0px 0.8em">Save the Dates</h4><span class="gmail-vc_sep_holder gmail-vc_sep_holder_r" style="box-sizing:border-box;height:1px;min-width:10%"><span class="gmail-vc_sep_line" style="box-sizing:border-box;height:1px;border-top:6px solid rgb(76,173,201);display:block;width:316.938px;border-right-color:rgb(76,173,201);border-bottom-color:rgb(76,173,201);border-left-color:rgb(76,173,201)"></span></span></div><div class="gmail-wpb_text_column gmail-wpb_content_element" style="box-sizing:border-box;margin-bottom:35px"><div class="gmail-wpb_wrapper" style="box-sizing:border-box;margin-bottom:0px"><p style="box-sizing:border-box;margin:0px 0px 10px"><em style="box-sizing:border-box;margin-bottom:0px">LTER Committee Meetings and LTER-related events are available for your reference at any time on the <a href="https://lternet.edu/home/lter-network-calendar/" style="box-sizing:border-box;background-color:transparent;color:rgb(4,176,191);text-decoration-line:none;margin-bottom:0px">LTER Network Calendar</a>.</em></p><p style="box-sizing:border-box;margin:0px 0px 10px"><span style="box-sizing:border-box;font-weight:700">LTER Science Council 2020</span><span style="box-sizing:border-box"> — Hosted by The Central-Arizona Phoenix LTER Site<br style="box-sizing:border-box;margin-bottom:0px"></span><span style="box-sizing:border-box">May 4:  Executive Board and one Executive Board Liaison each from the Information Management, Education and Outreach, and Diversity Committees.<br style="box-sizing:border-box;margin-bottom:0px"></span><span style="box-sizing:border-box">May 5 & 6: All the above, plus one Lead PI and one designee per site<br></span>May 7 (morning): Lead PIs only<br>More info to come soon!</p><p style="box-sizing:border-box;margin:0px"><a href="https://www.esa.org/saltlake/" style="box-sizing:border-box;background-color:transparent;color:rgb(4,176,191);text-decoration-line:none"><span style="box-sizing:border-box;font-weight:700;margin-bottom:0px">Ecological Society of America Annual Meeting</span></a><span style="box-sizing:border-box">, </span><span style="box-sizing:border-box;font-weight:700">August 2-7, 2020 </span><span style="box-sizing:border-box;margin-bottom:0px">in Salt Lake City. LTER will be well represented at ESA this year with multiple LTER-focused symposia and talks, as well as an evening mixer to celebrate 40 years of the LTER network. The LNO staff will be on site and hope to see you there! More details to come.</span></p></div></div><div class="gmail-vc_separator gmail-wpb_content_element gmail-vc_separator_align_center gmail-vc_sep_width_100 gmail-vc_sep_border_width_6 gmail-vc_sep_pos_align_center gmail-vc_sep_color_peacoc gmail-vc_separator-has-text" style="box-sizing:border-box;margin-bottom:35px;display:flex;width:759.594px;margin-left:auto;margin-right:auto"><span class="gmail-vc_sep_holder gmail-vc_sep_holder_l" style="box-sizing:border-box;height:1px;min-width:10%"><span class="gmail-vc_sep_line" style="box-sizing:border-box;height:1px;border-top:6px solid rgb(76,173,201);display:block;width:296.516px;border-right-color:rgb(76,173,201);border-bottom-color:rgb(76,173,201);border-left-color:rgb(76,173,201)"></span></span><h4 style="box-sizing:border-box;font-family:inherit;line-height:1em;color:inherit;margin:0px;padding:0px 0.8em">Around the Network</h4><span class="gmail-vc_sep_holder gmail-vc_sep_holder_r" style="box-sizing:border-box;height:1px;min-width:10%"><span class="gmail-vc_sep_line" style="box-sizing:border-box;height:1px;border-top:6px solid rgb(76,173,201);display:block;width:296.516px;border-right-color:rgb(76,173,201);border-bottom-color:rgb(76,173,201);border-left-color:rgb(76,173,201)"></span></span></div><div class="gmail-wpb_text_column gmail-wpb_content_element" style="box-sizing:border-box;margin-bottom:35px"><div class="gmail-wpb_wrapper" style="box-sizing:border-box;margin-bottom:0px"><p style="box-sizing:border-box;margin:0px 0px 10px">The LTER LNO welcomes three graduate students from across the network to our science writing team this month: <span style="box-sizing:border-box;font-weight:700">Erin Winslow</span> of Moorea Coral Reef LTER, <span style="box-sizing:border-box;font-weight:700">Tasha Griffin</span> of Beaufort Lagoon Ecosystems LTER and McMurdo Dry Valleys LTER, and <span style="box-sizing:border-box;font-weight:700;margin-bottom:0px">Haley Dunleavy</span> of Bonanza Creek LTER. Erin, Tasha, and Haley will contribute stories for the LTER Road Trip story map and website over the next year.</p><p style="box-sizing:border-box;margin:0px 0px 10px"><span style="box-sizing:border-box;font-weight:700">Congratulations to Monica G. Turner</span><span style="box-sizing:border-box"> of North Temperate Lakes LTER for receiving the </span><a href="https://www.fi.edu/laureates/monica-turner" style="box-sizing:border-box;background-color:transparent;color:rgb(4,176,191);text-decoration-line:none"><span style="box-sizing:border-box;margin-bottom:0px">Benjamin Franklin medal</span></a><span style="box-sizing:border-box;margin-bottom:0px"> and becoming a Franklin Institute Laureate for 2020. She received the honor for her contributions to our understanding of how changes in large-scale patterns associated with natural processes can affect not only ecological systems but also the social and economic well-being of society.</span></p><p style="box-sizing:border-box;margin:0px 0px 10px"><span style="box-sizing:border-box;font-weight:700">Congratulations to Dr. Eve Hinckley</span><span style="box-sizing:border-box;margin-bottom:0px"> of Niwot Ridge LTER for receiving the NSF CAREER award for her research on the consequences of high sulfur inputs into soils.</span></p><p style="box-sizing:border-box;margin:0px 0px 10px"><span style="box-sizing:border-box;font-weight:700">Kellogg Biological Station’s</span><span style="box-sizing:border-box"> first ever artist in residence, Erin Schneider, </span><a href="https://lter.kbs.msu.edu/get-involved/artists-in-residence/erin-schneider/" style="box-sizing:border-box;background-color:transparent;color:rgb(4,176,191);text-decoration-line:none"><span style="box-sizing:border-box;margin-bottom:0px">recently completed a set of poems</span></a><span style="box-sizing:border-box;margin-bottom:0px"> based on her experience visiting the site and interacting with KBS researchers last summer.</span></p><p style="box-sizing:border-box;margin:0px"><span style="box-sizing:border-box;font-weight:700;margin-bottom:0px">Luquillo LTER</span> has a new research manager. Monique Picon, a graduate student with Jess Zimmerman, has taken on the role. Congratulations and welcome, Monique.</p></div></div><div class="gmail-vc_separator gmail-wpb_content_element gmail-vc_separator_align_center gmail-vc_sep_width_100 gmail-vc_sep_border_width_6 gmail-vc_sep_pos_align_center gmail-vc_sep_color_peacoc gmail-vc_separator-has-text" style="box-sizing:border-box;margin-bottom:35px;display:flex;width:759.594px;margin-left:auto;margin-right:auto"><span class="gmail-vc_sep_holder gmail-vc_sep_holder_l" style="box-sizing:border-box;height:1px;min-width:10%"><span class="gmail-vc_sep_line" style="box-sizing:border-box;height:1px;border-top:6px solid rgb(76,173,201);display:block;width:323.984px;border-right-color:rgb(76,173,201);border-bottom-color:rgb(76,173,201);border-left-color:rgb(76,173,201)"></span></span><h4 style="box-sizing:border-box;font-family:inherit;line-height:1em;color:inherit;margin:0px;padding:0px 0.8em">Recent Press</h4><span class="gmail-vc_sep_holder gmail-vc_sep_holder_r" style="box-sizing:border-box;height:1px;min-width:10%"><span class="gmail-vc_sep_line" style="box-sizing:border-box;height:1px;border-top:6px solid rgb(76,173,201);display:block;width:323.984px;border-right-color:rgb(76,173,201);border-bottom-color:rgb(76,173,201);border-left-color:rgb(76,173,201)"></span></span></div><div class="gmail-wpb_text_column gmail-wpb_content_element" style="box-sizing:border-box;margin-bottom:35px"><div class="gmail-wpb_wrapper" style="box-sizing:border-box;margin-bottom:0px"><h3 style="box-sizing:border-box;font-family:inherit;line-height:1.4;color:inherit;margin-top:20px;margin-bottom:10px;font-size:16px">From the National Science Foundation</h3><ul style="box-sizing:border-box;margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:10px;padding-left:18px"><li style="box-sizing:border-box"><a href="https://www.nsf.gov/discoveries/disc_summ.jsp?cntn_id=299959" style="box-sizing:border-box;background-color:transparent;color:rgb(4,176,191);text-decoration-line:none;margin-bottom:0px"><span style="box-sizing:border-box;margin-bottom:0px">Giant kelp gives Southern California marine ecosystems a strong foundation</span></a></li><li style="box-sizing:border-box;margin-bottom:0px"><a href="https://www.nsf.gov/discoveries/disc_summ.jsp?cntn_id=299983&org=NSF&from=news" style="box-sizing:border-box;background-color:transparent;color:rgb(4,176,191);text-decoration-line:none;margin-bottom:0px"><span style="box-sizing:border-box;margin-bottom:0px">Everglades ‘remembers’ severe weather</span></a></li></ul><h3 style="box-sizing:border-box;font-family:inherit;line-height:1.4;color:inherit;margin-top:20px;margin-bottom:10px;font-size:16px">Other media</h3><ul style="box-sizing:border-box;margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;padding-left:18px"><li style="box-sizing:border-box"><a href="https://www.wired.com/story/antarctica-record-heat/" style="box-sizing:border-box;background-color:transparent;color:rgb(4,176,191);text-decoration-line:none"><span style="box-sizing:border-box;margin-bottom:0px">The Big (yet Hidden) Consequences of Antarctica’s Record Heat</span></a><span style="box-sizing:border-box;margin-bottom:0px"> | Wired</span></li><li style="box-sizing:border-box"><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=085vQpDGZdw&feature=youtu.be" style="box-sizing:border-box;background-color:transparent;color:rgb(4,176,191);text-decoration-line:none"><span style="box-sizing:border-box;margin-bottom:0px">Why is this Antarctic Glacier “Bleeding?”</span></a><span style="box-sizing:border-box;margin-bottom:0px"> | PBS Nova</span></li><li style="box-sizing:border-box"><a href="https://news.fiu.edu/2020/hurricanes-fertilize-mangrove-forests,-shape-coastal-landscape-of-the-florida-everglades" style="box-sizing:border-box;background-color:transparent;color:rgb(4,176,191);text-decoration-line:none"><span style="box-sizing:border-box;margin-bottom:0px">Hurricanes fertilize mangrove forests, shape coastal landscape of the Florida Everglades</span></a><span style="box-sizing:border-box;margin-bottom:0px"> | FIU News</span></li><li style="box-sizing:border-box"><a href="https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-020-00110-8?WT.ec_id=NATURE-20200123&utm_source=nature_etoc&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=20200123&sap-outbound-id=8986F83A407BC3051896B9846EE07B9D3FA88B22&mkt-key=005056B0331B1ED78393806F8C76F007" style="box-sizing:border-box;background-color:transparent;color:rgb(4,176,191);text-decoration-line:none"><span style="box-sizing:border-box;margin-bottom:0px">The chemists policing Earth’s atmosphere for rogue pollution</span></a><span style="box-sizing:border-box;margin-bottom:0px"> | Nature </span></li><li style="box-sizing:border-box"><a href="https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2020/02/200212131505.htm" style="box-sizing:border-box;background-color:transparent;color:rgb(4,176,191);text-decoration-line:none"><span style="box-sizing:border-box;margin-bottom:0px">Protecting redundancy in the food web helps ensure ecological resilience</span></a><span style="box-sizing:border-box;margin-bottom:0px"> | Science Daily</span></li><li style="box-sizing:border-box"><a href="https://video.pioneer.org/video/bison-savanna-fjkwby/" style="box-sizing:border-box;background-color:transparent;color:rgb(4,176,191);text-decoration-line:none"><span style="box-sizing:border-box;margin-bottom:0px">Bison on the Savanna</span></a><span style="box-sizing:border-box;margin-bottom:0px"> | PBS</span></li><li style="box-sizing:border-box;margin-bottom:0px"><a href="https://academic.oup.com/bioscience/article-abstract/70/2/136/5733718" style="box-sizing:border-box;background-color:transparent;color:rgb(4,176,191);text-decoration-line:none"><span style="box-sizing:border-box;margin-bottom:0px">In Their Own Words: Diana Wall</span></a><span style="box-sizing:border-box;margin-bottom:0px"> | Bioscience</span></li></ul></div></div><div class="gmail-vc_separator gmail-wpb_content_element gmail-vc_separator_align_center gmail-vc_sep_width_100 gmail-vc_sep_border_width_6 gmail-vc_sep_pos_align_center gmail-vc_sep_color_peacoc gmail-vc_separator-has-text" style="box-sizing:border-box;margin-bottom:35px;display:flex;width:759.594px;margin-left:auto;margin-right:auto"><span class="gmail-vc_sep_holder gmail-vc_sep_holder_l" style="box-sizing:border-box;height:1px;min-width:10%"><span class="gmail-vc_sep_line" style="box-sizing:border-box;height:1px;border-top:6px solid rgb(76,173,201);display:block;width:306.156px;border-right-color:rgb(76,173,201);border-bottom-color:rgb(76,173,201);border-left-color:rgb(76,173,201)"></span></span><h4 style="box-sizing:border-box;font-family:inherit;line-height:1em;color:inherit;margin:0px;padding:0px 0.8em">Papers of Interest</h4><span class="gmail-vc_sep_holder gmail-vc_sep_holder_r" style="box-sizing:border-box;height:1px;min-width:10%"><span class="gmail-vc_sep_line" style="box-sizing:border-box;height:1px;border-top:6px solid rgb(76,173,201);display:block;width:306.156px;border-right-color:rgb(76,173,201);border-bottom-color:rgb(76,173,201);border-left-color:rgb(76,173,201)"></span></span></div><div class="gmail-wpb_text_column gmail-wpb_content_element" style="box-sizing:border-box;margin-bottom:35px"><div class="gmail-wpb_wrapper" style="box-sizing:border-box;margin-bottom:0px"><p style="box-sizing:border-box;margin:0px 0px 10px"><i style="box-sizing:border-box"><span style="box-sizing:border-box;margin-bottom:0px">The </span></i><a href="https://lternet.edu/bibliography/" style="box-sizing:border-box;background-color:transparent;color:rgb(4,176,191);text-decoration-line:none"><i style="box-sizing:border-box;margin-bottom:0px"><span style="box-sizing:border-box;margin-bottom:0px">most recent LTER-related papers</span></i></a><i style="box-sizing:border-box"><span style="box-sizing:border-box;margin-bottom:0px"> are available on the LTER Network web site and the full Network bibliography is available at the LTER Network </span></i><a href="https://www.zotero.org/groups/2055673/lter_network/items" style="box-sizing:border-box;background-color:transparent;color:rgb(4,176,191);text-decoration-line:none"><i style="box-sizing:border-box;margin-bottom:0px"><span style="box-sizing:border-box;margin-bottom:0px">Zotero Group Library</span></i></a><i style="box-sizing:border-box;margin-bottom:0px"><span style="box-sizing:border-box;margin-bottom:0px">. Listed here is just a small sampling of the 30-40 LTER related papers that are published each month.</span></i></p><ul style="box-sizing:border-box;margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;padding-left:18px"><li style="box-sizing:border-box"><span style="box-sizing:border-box;margin-bottom:0px"><a href="https://doi.org/10.1111/ele.13456" style="box-sizing:border-box;background-color:transparent;color:rgb(4,176,191);text-decoration-line:none;margin-bottom:0px">Scaling‐up biodiversity‐ecosystem functioning research</a>  |  Ecology Letters</span></li><li style="box-sizing:border-box"><a href="https://academic.oup.com/bioscience/advance-article/doi/10.1093/biosci/biz162/5714640" style="box-sizing:border-box;background-color:transparent;color:rgb(4,176,191);text-decoration-line:none"><span style="box-sizing:border-box;margin-bottom:0px">Long-Term Ecological Research and Evolving Frameworks of Disturbance Ecology</span></a><span style="box-sizing:border-box;margin-bottom:0px"> |  BioScience</span></li><li style="box-sizing:border-box"><a href="https://esajournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1002/ecy.2981" style="box-sizing:border-box;background-color:transparent;color:rgb(4,176,191);text-decoration-line:none"><span style="box-sizing:border-box;margin-bottom:0px">Nutrient addition increases grassland sensitivity to droughts</span></a><span style="box-sizing:border-box;margin-bottom:0px"> | Ecology</span></li><li style="box-sizing:border-box"><a href="https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0921800919307104" style="box-sizing:border-box;background-color:transparent;color:rgb(4,176,191);text-decoration-line:none"><span style="box-sizing:border-box;margin-bottom:0px">Compounding the Disturbance: Family Forest Owner Reactions to Invasive Forest Insects</span></a><span style="box-sizing:border-box;margin-bottom:0px"> | Ecological Economics </span></li><li style="box-sizing:border-box"><a href="https://aslopubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1002/lno.11411" style="box-sizing:border-box;background-color:transparent;color:rgb(4,176,191);text-decoration-line:none"><span style="box-sizing:border-box;margin-bottom:0px">Effects of 10 yr of nitrogen and phosphorus fertilization on carbon and nutrient cycling in a tidal freshwater marsh</span></a><span style="box-sizing:border-box;margin-bottom:0px"> | Limnology And Oceanography</span></li><li style="box-sizing:border-box"><a href="https://www.fs.usda.gov/treesearch/pubs/59153" style="box-sizing:border-box;background-color:transparent;color:rgb(4,176,191);text-decoration-line:none"><span style="box-sizing:border-box;margin-bottom:0px">Know your watershed and know your neighbor: Paths to supporting urban watershed conservation and restoration in Baltimore, MD and Phoenix, AZ</span></a><span style="box-sizing:border-box;margin-bottom:0px"> | Landscape And Urban Planning</span></li><li style="box-sizing:border-box;margin-bottom:0px"><a href="https://esajournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1002/ecy.2987" style="box-sizing:border-box;background-color:transparent;color:rgb(4,176,191);text-decoration-line:none"><span style="box-sizing:border-box;margin-bottom:0px">Foundation species promote community stability by increasing diversity in a giant kelp forest</span></a><span style="box-sizing:border-box;margin-bottom:0px"> | Ecology</span></li></ul></div></div><div class="gmail-vc_separator gmail-wpb_content_element gmail-vc_separator_align_center gmail-vc_sep_width_100 gmail-vc_sep_border_width_6 gmail-vc_sep_pos_align_center gmail-vc_sep_color_peacoc gmail-vc_separator-has-text" style="box-sizing:border-box;margin-bottom:35px;display:flex;width:759.594px;margin-left:auto;margin-right:auto"><span class="gmail-vc_sep_holder gmail-vc_sep_holder_l" style="box-sizing:border-box;height:1px;min-width:10%"><span class="gmail-vc_sep_line" style="box-sizing:border-box;height:1px;border-top:6px solid rgb(76,173,201);display:block;width:289.516px;border-right-color:rgb(76,173,201);border-bottom-color:rgb(76,173,201);border-left-color:rgb(76,173,201)"></span></span><h4 style="box-sizing:border-box;font-family:inherit;line-height:1em;color:inherit;margin:0px;padding:0px 0.8em">Funding Opportunities</h4><span class="gmail-vc_sep_holder gmail-vc_sep_holder_r" style="box-sizing:border-box;height:1px;min-width:10%"><span class="gmail-vc_sep_line" style="box-sizing:border-box;height:1px;border-top:6px solid rgb(76,173,201);display:block;width:289.516px;border-right-color:rgb(76,173,201);border-bottom-color:rgb(76,173,201);border-left-color:rgb(76,173,201)"></span></span></div><div class="gmail-wpb_text_column gmail-wpb_content_element" style="box-sizing:border-box;margin-bottom:35px"><div class="gmail-wpb_wrapper" style="box-sizing:border-box;margin-bottom:0px"><ul style="box-sizing:border-box;margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;padding-left:18px"><li style="box-sizing:border-box"><a href="https://www.nsf.gov/pubs/2020/nsf20038/nsf20038.jsp#.Xi9i7fINnhU.twitter" style="box-sizing:border-box;background-color:transparent;color:rgb(4,176,191);text-decoration-line:none"><span style="box-sizing:border-box;margin-bottom:0px">Dear Colleague Letter: Developing New Research Collaborations Between Evolutionary Biologists and LTER Scientists</span></a><span style="box-sizing:border-box">. The NSF Division of Environmental Biology (DEB) aims to catalyze new collaborations that foster eco-evo research involving Long-Term Ecological Research (LTER) sites by soliciting proposals for conferences and workshops that lead to new research and collaborations between evolutionary biologists and current LTER scientists. Conference proposals can be submitted any time before </span><span style="box-sizing:border-box;font-weight:700">April 1, 2021</span><span style="box-sizing:border-box;margin-bottom:0px">. </span></li><li style="box-sizing:border-box"><a href="https://www.nsf.gov/pubs/2020/nsf20044/nsf20044.jsp?WT.mc_id=USNSF_25&WT.mc_ev=click" style="box-sizing:border-box;background-color:transparent;color:rgb(4,176,191);text-decoration-line:none"><span style="box-sizing:border-box;margin-bottom:0px">Dear Colleague Letter: IMAGiNE 2020: Organisms in a Dynamic Environment</span></a><span style="box-sizing:border-box;margin-bottom:0px">. The Division of Integrative Organismal Systems (IOS) in the Directorate for Biological Sciences (BIO) of the National Science Foundation (NSF) encourages submission of proposals to core programs focused on integrated studies that will investigate how genomes, phenomes, and the environment interact to influence the development, expression and evolution of complex traits.</span></li><li style="box-sizing:border-box"><a href="https://www.sesync.org/opportunities/propose-a-pursuit" style="box-sizing:border-box;background-color:transparent;color:rgb(4,176,191);text-decoration-line:none"><span style="box-sizing:border-box;margin-bottom:0px">SESYNC Propose A Pursuit</span></a><span style="box-sizing:border-box">. The National Socio-Environmental Synthesis Center (SESYNC) invites proposals for collaborative team-based synthesis research (Pursuits) around emerging socio-environmental systems (SES) topics. Applications due </span><span style="box-sizing:border-box;font-weight:700">March 30, 2020</span><span style="box-sizing:border-box;margin-bottom:0px">.</span></li><li style="box-sizing:border-box;margin-bottom:0px"><a href="https://nsf.gov/funding/pgm_summ.jsp?pims_id=505752&org=NSF&sel_org=NSF&from=fund" style="box-sizing:border-box;background-color:transparent;color:rgb(4,176,191);text-decoration-line:none"><span style="box-sizing:border-box;margin-bottom:0px">NSF Signals in the Soil (SitS) RFP</span></a><span style="box-sizing:border-box">:</span> The SitS program encourages convergent research that transforms existing capabilities in understanding dynamic soil processes, including soil formation, through advances in sensor systems and modeling. Full proposal due <span style="box-sizing:border-box;font-weight:700;margin-bottom:0px">May 30, 2020</span>.</li></ul></div></div><div class="gmail-vc_separator gmail-wpb_content_element gmail-vc_separator_align_center gmail-vc_sep_width_100 gmail-vc_sep_border_width_6 gmail-vc_sep_pos_align_center gmail-vc_sep_color_peacoc gmail-vc_separator-has-text" style="box-sizing:border-box;margin-bottom:35px;display:flex;width:759.594px;margin-left:auto;margin-right:auto"><span class="gmail-vc_sep_holder gmail-vc_sep_holder_l" style="box-sizing:border-box;height:1px;min-width:10%"><span class="gmail-vc_sep_line" style="box-sizing:border-box;height:1px;border-top:6px solid rgb(76,173,201);display:block;width:296.453px;border-right-color:rgb(76,173,201);border-bottom-color:rgb(76,173,201);border-left-color:rgb(76,173,201)"></span></span><h4 style="box-sizing:border-box;font-family:inherit;line-height:1em;color:inherit;margin:0px;padding:0px 0.8em">Jobs & Fellowships</h4><span class="gmail-vc_sep_holder gmail-vc_sep_holder_r" style="box-sizing:border-box;height:1px;min-width:10%"><span class="gmail-vc_sep_line" style="box-sizing:border-box;height:1px;border-top:6px solid rgb(76,173,201);display:block;width:296.453px;border-right-color:rgb(76,173,201);border-bottom-color:rgb(76,173,201);border-left-color:rgb(76,173,201)"></span></span></div><div class="gmail-wpb_text_column gmail-wpb_content_element" style="box-sizing:border-box;margin-bottom:35px"><div class="gmail-wpb_wrapper" style="box-sizing:border-box;margin-bottom:0px"><ul style="box-sizing:border-box;margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:10px;padding-left:18px"><li style="box-sizing:border-box"><a href="https://uva.wd1.myworkdayjobs.com/en-US/UVAJobs/job/Charlottesville-VA/Research-Associate-In-Quantitative-Ecology-Of-Kelp-Forest-Ecosystems_R0011498" style="box-sizing:border-box;background-color:transparent;color:rgb(4,176,191);text-decoration-line:none"><span style="box-sizing:border-box;margin-bottom:0px">Research Associate In Quantitative Ecology Of Kelp Forest Ecosystems</span></a><span style="box-sizing:border-box;margin-bottom:0px">  | University of Virginia in collaboration with Santa Barbara Coastal LTER</span></li><li style="box-sizing:border-box"><a href="https://lternet.edu/opportunities/mbl-marine-ecologist/" style="box-sizing:border-box;background-color:transparent;color:rgb(4,176,191);text-decoration-line:none"><span style="box-sizing:border-box;margin-bottom:0px">Marine/Coastal Ecologist at The Ecosystems Center</span></a><span style="box-sizing:border-box;margin-bottom:0px"> | Plum Island Ecosystems LTER, Marine Biological Laboratory</span></li><li style="box-sizing:border-box"><a href="https://employment.marquette.edu/postings/12959" style="box-sizing:border-box;background-color:transparent;color:rgb(4,176,191);text-decoration-line:none"><span style="box-sizing:border-box;margin-bottom:0px">Lead/Asst. Lead Research Technicians</span></a><span style="box-sizing:border-box"> and </span><a href="https://employment.marquette.edu/postings/12960" style="box-sizing:border-box;background-color:transparent;color:rgb(4,176,191);text-decoration-line:none"><span style="box-sizing:border-box;margin-bottom:0px">Research Technicians</span></a><span style="box-sizing:border-box;margin-bottom:0px"> wanted – Old-growth forest dynamics | H.J. Andrews Experimental Forest LTER</span></li><li style="box-sizing:border-box"><a href="https://recruiting.ultipro.com/MAR1033MBL/JobBoard/4c3007c3-6354-41de-a13f-d95be60d91e9/?q=&o=postedDateDesc" style="box-sizing:border-box;background-color:transparent;color:rgb(4,176,191);text-decoration-line:none"><span style="box-sizing:border-box;margin-bottom:0px">Summer Field Assistants</span></a><span style="box-sizing:border-box;margin-bottom:0px"> | Arctic LTER, Marine Biological Laboratory</span></li><li style="box-sizing:border-box;margin-bottom:0px"><a href="https://lternet.edu/opportunities/urex-srn-latin-american-international-research-experience/" style="box-sizing:border-box;background-color:transparent;color:rgb(4,176,191);text-decoration-line:none"><span style="box-sizing:border-box;margin-bottom:0px">UREx SRN – Latin American International Research Experience (for undergrad and grad students) in Bogotá, Colombia</span></a><span style="box-sizing:border-box;margin-bottom:0px"> | Arizona State University</span></li></ul><h3 style="box-sizing:border-box;font-family:inherit;line-height:1.4;color:inherit;margin-top:20px;margin-bottom:10px;font-size:16px">Featured Research Experiences for Undergraduates (REUs)</h3><ul style="box-sizing:border-box;margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:10px;padding-left:18px"><li style="box-sizing:border-box"><a href="https://t.co/FYOPeB86GR" style="box-sizing:border-box;background-color:transparent;color:rgb(4,176,191);text-decoration-line:none;margin-bottom:0px">The Future of Urban Ecosystem Services</a> undergraduate research opportunity (UREx SRN)</li><li style="box-sizing:border-box"><a href="https://www.ramirezlab.net/reu" style="box-sizing:border-box;background-color:transparent;color:rgb(4,176,191);text-decoration-line:none;margin-bottom:0px">Luquillo Tropical Ecology REUs</a></li><li style="box-sizing:border-box"><a href="https://recruiting.ultipro.com/MAR1033MBL/JobBoard/4c3007c3-6354-41de-a13f-d95be60d91e9/OpportunityDetail?opportunityId=253eb0c8-e1ba-455c-8423-c952d13bfae2" style="box-sizing:border-box;background-color:transparent;color:rgb(4,176,191);text-decoration-line:none;margin-bottom:0px">Arctic LTER REUs</a></li><li style="box-sizing:border-box"><a href="https://hubbardbrook.org/research-experience-undergraduates-reu" style="box-sizing:border-box;background-color:transparent;color:rgb(4,176,191);text-decoration-line:none;margin-bottom:0px">Hubbard Brook LTER REUs</a></li><li style="box-sizing:border-box"><a href="https://lternet.edu/opportunities/research-experience-for-undergraduates-reu-pie-lter/" style="box-sizing:border-box;background-color:transparent;color:rgb(4,176,191);text-decoration-line:none;margin-bottom:0px">Plum Island Ecosystems LTER REUs</a></li><li style="box-sizing:border-box"><a href="http://www.kbs.msu.edu/education/undergraduate-program/research-experiences-for-undergraduates-reu/" style="box-sizing:border-box;background-color:transparent;color:rgb(4,176,191);text-decoration-line:none;margin-bottom:0px">Kellogg Biological Station REUs</a></li><li style="box-sizing:border-box;margin-bottom:0px"><a href="https://lternet.edu/opportunities/summer-and-fall-plant-community-ecology-internship/" style="box-sizing:border-box;background-color:transparent;color:rgb(4,176,191);text-decoration-line:none;margin-bottom:0px">Cedar Creek LTER – Summer and Fall Plant Community Ecology Internships</a></li></ul><div><br></div><div><br></div><div><div class="gmail-vc_separator gmail-wpb_content_element gmail-vc_separator_align_center gmail-vc_sep_width_100 gmail-vc_sep_border_width_6 gmail-vc_sep_pos_align_center gmail-vc_sep_color_peacoc gmail-vc_separator-has-text" style="box-sizing:border-box;margin-bottom:35px;display:flex;width:759.594px;margin-left:auto;margin-right:auto"><span class="gmail-vc_sep_holder gmail-vc_sep_holder_l" style="box-sizing:border-box;height:1px;min-width:10%"><span class="gmail-vc_sep_line" style="box-sizing:border-box;height:1px;border-top:6px solid rgb(76,173,201);display:block;width:296.453px;border-right-color:rgb(76,173,201);border-bottom-color:rgb(76,173,201);border-left-color:rgb(76,173,201)"></span></span><h4 style="box-sizing:border-box;font-family:inherit;line-height:1em;color:inherit;margin:0px;padding:0px 0.8em">Featured Twitter Pics</h4><span class="gmail-vc_sep_holder gmail-vc_sep_holder_r" style="box-sizing:border-box;height:1px;min-width:10%"><span class="gmail-vc_sep_line" style="box-sizing:border-box;height:1px;border-top:6px solid rgb(76,173,201);display:block;width:296.453px;border-right-color:rgb(76,173,201);border-bottom-color:rgb(76,173,201);border-left-color:rgb(76,173,201)"><br></span></span></div></div><div><div style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:small;background-color:rgb(255,255,255);box-sizing:border-box"><i style="box-sizing:border-box"><span style="box-sizing:border-box">A new section where we feature some of the eye-catching Tweets and photos from around the LTER network over the past month. Thanks Tricia and Mike for posting about your awesome LTER research! Be sure to tag us at @USLTER for a chance to be featured in future newsletters.</span></i></div><div style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:small;background-color:rgb(255,255,255);box-sizing:border-box"><br></div><div style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:small;background-color:rgb(255,255,255);box-sizing:border-box"><img src="https://lternet.edu/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/Screen-Shot-2020-02-19-at-11.37.22-AM.png" alt="" width="297" height="475" class="gmail-CToWUd gmail-a6T" tabindex="0" style="cursor: pointer; outline: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; border: 0px; vertical-align: middle; margin-right: 0px;">                            <img src="https://lternet.edu/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/Screen-Shot-2020-02-19-at-11.34.52-AM.png" alt="" width="301" height="303" class="gmail-CToWUd gmail-a6T" tabindex="0" style="cursor: pointer; outline: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; border: 0px; vertical-align: middle; max-width: 100%; height: auto; width: 301px;"></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div>