<div dir="ltr"><div style="box-sizing:border-box;margin-bottom:35px;text-align:center"><div style="box-sizing:border-box;display:inline-block;vertical-align:top;max-width:100%"><img width="542" height="118" src="https://lternet.edu/wp-content/uploads/2019/08/LTER-Network-news-2019-2010x437.png" alt="" style="outline:0px;box-sizing:border-box;border:0px;vertical-align:top;margin-right:25px"></div></div><div style="box-sizing:border-box;margin-bottom:35px"><div style="box-sizing:border-box;margin-bottom:0px"><p style="box-sizing:border-box;margin:0px 0px 10px;text-align:right">August 2020</p><p style="box-sizing:border-box;margin:0px"><em style="box-sizing:border-box;margin-bottom:0px">LTER <span>Network</span> <span>News</span> is a forum for sharing <span>news</span> and activities from across the LTER <span>Network</span>. This is our water cooler. If you have personnel changes, new grants, or cross-<span>Network</span> activities that might interest your LTER colleagues, please send them along to <a href="mailto:weiss@nceas.ucsb.edu" target="_blank">weiss@nceas.ucsb.edu</a></em></p></div></div><div style="box-sizing:border-box;margin-bottom:35px;display:flex;width:759.594px;margin-left:auto;margin-right:auto"><span style="box-sizing:border-box;height:1px;min-width:10%"><span 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 style="box-sizing:border-box;height:1px;min-width:10%"><span 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 style="box-sizing:border-box;margin-bottom:35px"><div style="box-sizing:border-box;margin-bottom:0px"><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><a href="https://lternet.edu/synthesis/request-for-proposals-2020/" style="color:rgb(5,99,193)" target="_blank">2020 Request
for Proposals: LTER Synthesis Working Groups</a>. The LTER Network Office has
announced a new request for synthesis working group proposals. The groups
support scientific collaboration across and beyond LTER sites using LTER and
other datasets. In the 2020 competition, the LNO expects to award 2-4 synthesis
working groups at a funding level of up to $55,000 per year for up to two
years. Proposals are due <b>October 14, 2020</b>, 5:00 p.m. PDT.</p></div></div><div style="box-sizing:border-box;margin-bottom:35px;display:flex;width:759.594px;margin-left:auto;margin-right:auto"><span style="box-sizing:border-box;height:1px;min-width:10%"><span 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 style="box-sizing:border-box;height:1px;min-width:10%"><span 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 style="box-sizing:border-box;margin-bottom:35px"><div 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="color:rgb(4,176,191);box-sizing:border-box;background-color:transparent;text-decoration-line:none;margin-bottom:0px" target="_blank">LTER <span>Network</span> Calendar</a>.</em></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><a href="https://www.2020sacnas.org/" style="color:rgb(5,99,193)" target="_blank">National Diversity in
STEM Conference</a>, October 22-24 2020, hosted by the Society for Advancement
of Chicanos/Hispanics and Native Americans in Science (SACNAS).</p><p style="box-sizing:border-box;margin:0px 0px 10px">
</p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif">The <a href="https://www.agu.org/Fall-Meeting" style="color:rgb(5,99,193)" target="_blank">Fall
Meeting</a> of the American Geophysical Union is scheduled for December
7-11 2020, as a mainly virtual meeting with the theme “Shaping the Future of
Science.”</p><div style="box-sizing:border-box;margin-bottom:35px"><div style="box-sizing:border-box;margin-bottom:0px"><p style="box-sizing:border-box;margin:0px"><em style="box-sizing:border-box;margin-bottom:0px"></em></p><div style="box-sizing:border-box;margin-bottom:35px"><div style="box-sizing:border-box;margin-bottom:0px"><p style="box-sizing:border-box;margin:0px 0px 10px"></p></div></div><p></p><div style="box-sizing:border-box;margin-bottom:35px;display:flex;width:759.594px;margin-left:auto;margin-right:auto"><span style="box-sizing:border-box;height:1px;min-width:10%"><span 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">DEI Resources</h4><span style="box-sizing:border-box;height:1px;min-width:10%"><span 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><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><i>As the reinvigorated <a href="https://lternet.edu/committees/diversity-committee/" style="color:rgb(5,99,193)" target="_blank">Diversity, Equity
and Inclusion Committee</a> expands network-wide activities, we’ll be
highlighting a new diversity resource in this space each month. </i><span style="font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif"><i>Learn more at the <a href="https://lternet.edu/network-organization/diversity-resources/" target="_blank">DEI resources</a> page.</i></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><i><br></i></p><p style="box-sizing:border-box;margin:0px"><em style="box-sizing:border-box;margin-bottom:0px">
</em></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><a href="https://www.preprints.org/manuscript/202008.0021/v1" style="color:rgb(5,99,193)" target="_blank">Safe
Fieldwork Strategies for At-Risk Individuals</a> – Certain individuals are
at higher risk for conflict and violence when they are in the field due to
prejudice against their race/ethnicity, sexual orientation, disability, gender
identity, and/or religion. This paper provides strategies for acknowledging and
reducing the risk of conflict, promoting a diverse and inclusive environment,
and maintaining the safety of researchers in the field.</p><div style="box-sizing:border-box;margin-bottom:35px"><div style="box-sizing:border-box;margin-bottom:0px"><div style="box-sizing:border-box;margin-bottom:35px"><div style="box-sizing:border-box;margin-bottom:0px"><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"></p><div style="box-sizing:border-box;margin-bottom:35px"><div style="box-sizing:border-box;margin-bottom:0px"><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"></p></div></div><p></p><div style="box-sizing:border-box;margin-bottom:35px;display:flex;width:759.594px;margin-left:auto;margin-right:auto"><span style="box-sizing:border-box;height:1px;min-width:10%"><span 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">Grad Student Spotlight</h4><span style="box-sizing:border-box;height:1px;min-width:10%"><span 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)"><br></span></span></div></div></div></div></div><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif">This month we feature a <a href="https://lternet.edu/stories/lter-graduate-student-spotlight-brian-kim/">Q&A with Brian Kim</a>, Chair of the LTER graduate student committee and a PhD student at the Virginia Institute of Marine Science. He researches benthic biogeochemistry at the Beaufort Lagoon LTER in Alaska, and has helped organize a number of community-building and professional development events for LTER grad students.<br></p></div></div></div></div><div style="box-sizing:border-box;margin-bottom:35px;display:flex;width:759.594px;margin-left:auto;margin-right:auto"><span style="box-sizing:border-box;height:1px;min-width:10%"><span 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 <span>Network</span></h4><span style="box-sizing:border-box;height:1px;min-width:10%"><span 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 style="box-sizing:border-box;margin-bottom:35px"><div style="box-sizing:border-box;margin-bottom:0px"><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif">Congratulations to David Tilman of <b>Cedar Creek
Ecosystem LTER</b> who was awarded the prestigious <a href="https://www.af-info.or.jp/en/blueplanet/introduction.html" style="color:rgb(5,99,193)" target="_blank">2020 Blue Planet
Prize</a> for his work on the “diet-environment-health trilemma” and his
advocacy for changes in agriculture and consumption.</p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><br></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif">Congratulations to Emeritus <b>McMurdo Dry Valleys LTER</b> PI
Berry Lyons, who was awarded the <a href="https://www.scar.org/general-scar-news/2020-scar-medals/" style="color:rgb(5,99,193)" target="_blank">2020 SCAR Medal
for Excellence in Antarctic Research</a> by the Scientific Committee on
Antarctic Research (SCAR)</p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><br></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><b>Florida Coastal Everglades LTER's</b> <span style="background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Liza Goldberg helped create the </span><a href="https://www.nasa.gov/feature/goddard/2020/nasa-study-maps-the-roots-of-global-mangrove-loss" style="font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;text-decoration-line:none" target="_blank"><span style="font-family:Arial;background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;text-decoration-line:underline;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">first map showing global mangrove habitats</span></a><span style="background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"> between 2000 and 2016 - a valuable tool to aid conservation efforts for these vital coastline defenders. Goldberg, a NASA Goddard intern and freshman at Stanford University, was one of the map developers and created a </span><a href="https://www.mangrovelossdrivers.app/app" style="font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;text-decoration-line:none" target="_blank"><span style="font-family:Arial;background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;text-decoration-line:underline;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">website</span></a><span style="background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"> to explore the data.</span><br></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><br></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif">The <b>Baltimore Ecosystem Study LTER</b>’s <a href="http://cadrek12.org/analyzing-interpreting-data-across-stem-disciplines#berkowitz" style="color:rgb(5,99,193)" target="_blank">Integrating
Chemistry and Earth Science (ICE)</a> was featured in the <a href="http://cadrek12.org/analyzing-interpreting-data-across-stem-disciplines" style="color:rgb(5,99,193)" target="_blank">CADRE
Spotlight on Analyzing & Interpreting Data</a>. The ICE Project created 3-D
Earth science infused chemistry units and subsequent assessments that bring
together lab and field investigations and exploration of local data sets to
support teaching and learning about compelling phenomena in the Baltimore
environment.</p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><br></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif">Scott Simon of <b>Santa Barbara Coastal LTER</b> ran
a 3-day, remote, teacher professional development workshop this summer with
approximately 25 local teachers, who also received a copy of <a href="https://lternet.edu/schoolyard-book-series/the-golden-forest/" style="color:rgb(5,99,193)" target="_blank"><i>The
Golden Forest</i></a>, the SBC LTER children’s book. The LTER education team
also runs a <a href="https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCzNC-IK5BNlgY3cZrGrWEqQ" style="color:rgb(5,99,193)" target="_blank">VirtualREEF
YouTube Channel</a> which contains videos about both the SBC and Moorea
Coral Reef LTERs and related topics.</p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><br></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><b>Cedar Creek LTER</b> has been hosting monthly <a href="https://www.cedarcreek.umn.edu/lwas" style="color:rgb(5,99,193)" target="_blank">Lunch with a Scientist live
broadcasts</a> to offer remote education opportunities on topics including
bison, fungi, and bees. They also host a <a href="https://www.cedarcreek.umn.edu/bookclub" style="color:rgb(5,99,193)" target="_blank">Cedar Creek Ecology book club</a> that
gathers on zoom, and a video series on FlipGrid.</p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><br></p><p style="box-sizing:border-box;margin:0px 0px 10px">
<span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif">Several <b>Hubbard Brook LTER</b> researchers
held a <a href="https://hubbardbrook.org/articles/hubbard-brook-holds-virtual-climate-change-roundtable-representative-annie-kuster" style="color:rgb(5,99,193)" target="_blank">Virtual
Climate Change Roundtable</a> with New Hampshire Representative Annie
Kuster to discuss the latest research and findings on climate change in the
region.</span> <br></p></div></div><div style="box-sizing:border-box;margin-bottom:35px;display:flex;width:759.594px;margin-left:auto;margin-right:auto"><span style="box-sizing:border-box;height:1px;min-width:10%"><span 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 style="box-sizing:border-box;height:1px;min-width:10%"><span 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 style="box-sizing:border-box;margin-bottom:35px"><div 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="margin-top:0in;margin-bottom:0in" type="disc">
<li class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><a href="https://nsf.gov/discoveries/disc_summ.jsp?cntn_id=301013" style="color:rgb(5,99,193)" target="_blank">In a
warming world, New England’s trees are storing more carbon</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="margin-top:0in;margin-bottom:0in" type="disc">
<li class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><a href="https://www.nationalgeographic.com/animals/2020/07/lynx-long-journeys-mountains-alaska-canada/" style="color:rgb(5,99,193)" target="_blank">Lynx
take epic, 2,000-mile treks—but why is a mystery</a> | National
Geographic</li>
<li class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><a href="https://scripps.ucsd.edu/news/all-female-science-party-aboard-rv-sally-ride-continues-71-year-calcofi-measurement-series" style="color:rgb(5,99,193)" target="_blank">All-Female
Science Party aboard R/V Sally Ride Continues 71-year CalCOFI Measurement
Series</a> | Scripps News</li>
<li class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><a href="https://www.news.ucsb.edu/2020/019990/collaborative-approach" style="color:rgb(5,99,193)" target="_blank">A
Collaborative Approach: Marine scientists will lead new research network
focused on coastal California</a> | The Current</li>
<li class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/science/insect-apocalypse-not-happening-yet-in-north-america/2020/08/14/cde0b190-dcb4-11ea-8051-d5f887d73381_story.html" style="color:rgb(5,99,193)" target="_blank">No
signs of large-scale insect apocalypse in North America yet, study says</a> |
Washington Post</li>
<li class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><a href="https://www.sciencemag.org/news/2020/08/pandemic-stilled-human-activity-what-did-anthropause-mean-wildlife" style="color:rgb(5,99,193)" target="_blank">The
pandemic stilled human activity. What did this ‘anthropause’ mean for
wildlife?</a> | Science Magazine</li>
<li class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><a href="https://thebulletin.org/2020/08/making-your-own-ice-storm-latest-in-climate-science-research/" style="color:rgb(5,99,193)" target="_blank">Making
your own ice storm: Latest in climate science research</a> | Bulletin
of the Atomic Scientists</li>
<li class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><a href="https://greatlakesecho.org/2020/08/07/msu-study-finds-no-till-farming-yields-long-term-economic-benefits/" style="color:rgb(5,99,193)" target="_blank">MSU
study finds no-till farming yields long-term economic benefits</a> |
Great Lakes Echo</li>
<li class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><a href="https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2020/08/24/climate/racism-redlining-cities-global-warming.html?action=click&module=Top%20Stories&pgtype=Homepage" style="color:rgb(5,99,193)" target="_blank">How
Decades of Racist Housing Policy Left Neighborhoods Sweltering</a> |
New York Times</li>
</ul></div></div><div style="box-sizing:border-box;margin-bottom:35px;display:flex;width:759.594px;margin-left:auto;margin-right:auto"><span style="box-sizing:border-box;height:1px;min-width:10%"><span 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 style="box-sizing:border-box;height:1px;min-width:10%"><span 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 style="box-sizing:border-box;margin-bottom:35px"><div style="box-sizing:border-box;margin-bottom:0px"><p style="box-sizing:border-box;margin:0px 0px 10px">The <a href="https://lternet.edu/bibliography/" style="color:rgb(4,176,191);box-sizing:border-box;background-color:transparent;text-decoration-line:none" target="_blank">most recent LTER-related papers</a> are available on the LTER <span>Network</span> web site and the full <span>Network</span> bibliography is available at the <a href="https://www.zotero.org/groups/2055673/lter_network/items" style="color:rgb(4,176,191);box-sizing:border-box;background-color:transparent;text-decoration-line:none;margin-bottom:0px" target="_blank">LTER <span>Network</span> Zotero Group Library</a>. Listed here is just a small sampling of the 30-40 LTER related papers that are published each month.</p><ul style="margin-top:0in;margin-bottom:0in" type="disc">
<li class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><a href="https://esajournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/ecs2.3215" style="color:rgb(5,99,193)" target="_blank">What
can we learn from wildlife sightings during the COVID‐19 global shutdown?</a> |
Ecosphere</li>
<li class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><a href="https://esajournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1002/ecm.1423" style="color:rgb(5,99,193)" target="_blank">Carbon
budget of the Harvard Forest Long‐Term Ecological Research site: pattern,
process, and response to global change</a> | Ecological Monographs</li>
<li class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><a href="https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1111/gcb.15275" style="color:rgb(5,99,193)" target="_blank">Global
declines in human-driven mangrove loss</a> | Global Change Biology</li>
<li class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><a href="https://www.nature.com/articles/s41559-020-1269-4" style="color:rgb(5,99,193)" target="_blank">No net insect
abundance and diversity declines across US Long Term Ecological Research
sites</a> | Nature Ecology & Evolution</li>
<li class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><a href="https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0025322720302036?via%3Dihub" style="color:rgb(5,99,193)" target="_blank">Evaluating
the effects of regional climate trends along the West Antarctic Peninsula
shelf based on the seabed distribution of naturally occurring
radioisotopic tracers</a> | Marine Geology</li>
<li class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><a href="https://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal.pone.0237368" style="color:rgb(5,99,193)" target="_blank">Patient
propagules: Do soil archives preserve the legacy of fungal and prokaryotic
communities?</a> | PLOS One</li>
<li class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><a href="https://besjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/1365-2435.13661#.XzBUjUAPjEk.twitter" style="color:rgb(5,99,193)" target="_blank">Root
herbivory controls the effects of water availability on the partitioning
between above and belowground grass biomass</a> | Functional Ecology</li>
<li class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><a href="https://science.sciencemag.org/content/early/2020/08/12/science.aay4497" style="color:rgb(5,99,193)" target="_blank">The
ecological and evolutionary consequences of systemic racism in urban
environments</a> | Science</li>
</ul></div></div><div style="box-sizing:border-box;margin-bottom:35px;display:flex;width:759.594px;margin-left:auto;margin-right:auto"><span style="box-sizing:border-box;height:1px;min-width:10%"><span 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 style="box-sizing:border-box;height:1px;min-width:10%"><span 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 style="box-sizing:border-box;margin-bottom:35px"><div style="box-sizing:border-box;margin-bottom:0px"><ul style="margin-top:0in;margin-bottom:0in" type="disc">
<li class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><a href="https://nsf.gov/funding/pgm_summ.jsp?pims_id=505772&org=NSF&sel_org=NSF&from=fund" style="color:rgb(5,99,193)" target="_blank">NSF
Coastlines and People Hubs for Research and Broadening Participation
(CoPe)</a> | Letter of Intent due September 28, 2020</li>
<li class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><a href="https://nsf.gov/funding/pgm_summ.jsp?pims_id=505289&org=NSF&sel_org=NSF&from=fund" style="color:rgb(5,99,193)" target="_blank">NSF
Inclusion across the Nation of Communities of Learners of Underrepresented
Discoverers in Engineering and Science (INCLUDES)</a> | Letter of
intent due October 9, 2020</li>
<li class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><a href="https://nsf.gov/funding/pgm_summ.jsp?pims_id=6201&org=NSF&sel_org=NSF&from=fund" style="color:rgb(5,99,193)" target="_blank">NSF
Graduate Research Fellowship Program (GRFP)</a> | Full proposal
due October 19, 2020</li>
</ul></div></div><div style="box-sizing:border-box;margin-bottom:35px;display:flex;width:759.594px;margin-left:auto;margin-right:auto"><span style="box-sizing:border-box;height:1px;min-width:10%"><span 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 and Fellowships</h4><span style="box-sizing:border-box;height:1px;min-width:10%"><span 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 style="box-sizing:border-box;margin-bottom:35px"><div style="box-sizing:border-box;margin-bottom:0px"><ul style="margin-top:0in;margin-bottom:0in" type="disc">
<li class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><a href="https://lternet.edu/opportunities/postdoctoral-research-scholar-in-earth-system-science-for-the-anthropocene/" style="color:rgb(5,99,193)" target="_blank">Postdoctoral
Research Scholar in Earth System Science for the Anthropocene</a> |
Arizona State University</li>
<li class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><a href="https://lternet.edu/opportunities/ph-d-position-in-seagrass-biodiversity/" style="color:rgb(5,99,193)" target="_blank">Ph.D.
position in seagrass biodiversity</a> | University of Virginia</li>
<li class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><a href="https://lternet.edu/opportunities/ph-d-position-in-ecological-synchrony-of-kelp-forests/" style="color:rgb(5,99,193)" target="_blank">Ph.D.
position in ecological synchrony of kelp forests</a> | University of
Virginia</li>
<li class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><a href="https://lternet.edu/opportunities/doctoral-position-available-in-tropical-ant-ecology-starting-2021/" style="color:rgb(5,99,193)" target="_blank">Doctoral
position in tropical ant ecology</a> | Luquillo LTER via University
of Southern Mississippi</li>
<li class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><a href="https://lternet.edu/opportunities/2020-summer-and-fall-jobs-plant-community-ecology-internship/" style="color:rgb(5,99,193)" target="_blank">2020
Summer and Fall Jobs: Plant Community Ecology Internship</a> | Cedar
Creek Ecosystem Reserve</li></ul><p style="box-sizing:border-box;margin:0px"></p></div></div><div style="box-sizing:border-box;margin-bottom:35px;display:flex;width:759.594px;margin-left:auto;margin-right:auto"><span style="box-sizing:border-box;height:1px;min-width:10%"><span style="box-sizing:border-box;height:1px;border-top:6px solid rgb(76,173,201);display:block;width:254.375px;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">Committees and Interest Groups</h4><span style="box-sizing:border-box;height:1px;min-width:10%"><span style="box-sizing:border-box;height:1px;border-top:6px solid rgb(76,173,201);display:block;width:254.375px;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 style="box-sizing:border-box;margin-bottom:35px"><div style="box-sizing:border-box;margin-bottom:0px"><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif">Feeling a little isolated under COVID19? It is only by drawing
on the energy and expertise of LTER participants that the Network can be
relevant to your needs. Visit the <a href="https://lternet.edu/committees/" style="color:rgb(5,99,193)" target="_blank"><b>LTER
committees</b></a> page to learn what’s happening and how to get involved.</p></div></div><div><div style="box-sizing:border-box;margin-bottom:35px;display:flex;width:759.594px;margin-left:auto;margin-right:auto"><span style="box-sizing:border-box;height:1px;min-width:10%"><span style="box-sizing:border-box;height:1px;border-top:6px solid rgb(76,173,201);display:block;width:254.375px;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">Tweets of the Month</h4><span style="box-sizing:border-box;height:1px;min-width:10%"><span style="box-sizing:border-box;height:1px;border-top:6px solid rgb(76,173,201);display:block;width:254.375px;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 style="box-sizing:border-box;margin-bottom:35px"><div style="box-sizing:border-box;margin-bottom:0px"><p style="box-sizing:border-box;margin:0px 0px 10px"></p></div></div></div><div><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif">We love welcoming new people and projects to our LTER sites,
and are extra excited when we folks share about it on Twitter. Keep those
Tweets coming and tag us at @USLTER so we don’t miss any!</p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><br></p><div><div><img src="cid:ii_kebznjcv2" alt="LTER Tweet Aug 3.png" width="403" height="239" style="margin-right:0px"><br></div><div><img src="cid:ii_kebznqrh3" alt="LTER Tweet Aug 1.png" width="401" height="252" style="margin-right:0px"><br></div></div><div><br></div><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><br></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><br></p></div>-- <br><div dir="ltr" data-smartmail="gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div>Kristen Weiss, PhD</div><div>Communications Coordinator, Network Communications Office</div><div><div style="font-size:12.8px"><span style="font-size:12.8px"><a href="https://lternet.edu/" style="color:rgb(17,85,204)" target="_blank">Long-Term Ecological Research Network</a></span></div><div style="font-size:12.8px"><a href="http://us12.campaign-archive.com/?u=d7494403ed9d8c97a5479f0d4&id=9c0b9b36a4" style="color:rgb(17,85,204)" target="_blank">LTER Science Update</a></div><div style="font-size:12.8px">t: @USLTER</div><div style="font-size:12.8px">f: USLTER</div><div style="font-size:12.8px"><br></div><div style="font-size:12.8px"><span style="font-size:12.8px">National Center for Ecological Analysis and Synthesis (NCEAS)</span><br></div><div style="font-size:12.8px"><span style="font-size:12.8px">University of California, Santa Barbara</span></div></div><div style="font-size:12.8px">Cell: 805-843-2794</div><div style="font-size:12.8px"><a href="mailto:weiss@nceas.ucsb.edu" target="_blank">weiss@nceas.ucsb.edu</a></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div>