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LUQ-LTER February 2016 Newsletter
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<span style="font-size:24px"><span style="font-family:tahoma,verdana,segoe,sans-serif"><span style="color: #B22222;">Thank you to everyone who attended the LUQ planning meeting in January!</span></span></span>
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<div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family:tahoma,verdana,segoe,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:14px"><span style="font-size:16px"><span style="color:#B22222"><span style="font-size:20px"><strong>Join us by computer or phone via GoTo meeting on the following dates for the LUQ Monthly Meetings!</strong> </span></span></span></span></span><br>
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<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family:tahoma,verdana,segoe,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:14px"><span style="font-size:16px">Feb 23: 3 pm AST 2 pm EST<br>
March 29: 3 pm AST, 3 pm EDT<br>
April 26: 3 pm AST, 3 pm EDT<br>
May 31: 3 pm AST, 3 pm EDT</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family:tahoma,verdana,segoe,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:14px"><span style="font-size:16px">Meetings are generally ~ 1 hour of scientific presentations and discussion followed by a general business meeting. The link/phone number to join is sent out via e-mail before the meeting.</span></span></span>
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<div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size:23px"><span style="font-family:tahoma,verdana,segoe,sans-serif"><span style="color: #B22222;"><strong>LUQ REU Applications Open</strong></span></span></span></div>
<p style="margin: 10px 0;padding: 0;mso-line-height-rule: exactly;-ms-text-size-adjust: 100%;-webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%;color: #666666;font-family: Helvetica;font-size: 16px;line-height: 150%;text-align: left;"><span style="font-size:16px"><span style="font-family:tahoma,verdana,segoe,sans-serif">We are now accepting applications for the Summer 2016 internship in Tropical Ecology and Evolution at El Verde Field Station. The internship will run from May 30 - August 5. </span></span></p>
<p style="margin: 10px 0;padding: 0;mso-line-height-rule: exactly;-ms-text-size-adjust: 100%;-webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%;color: #666666;font-family: Helvetica;font-size: 16px;line-height: 150%;text-align: left;"><span style="font-size:16px"><span style="font-family:tahoma,verdana,segoe,sans-serif">Application deadline: <span data-term="goog_1268198057" tabindex="0">28 February 2016</span></span></span></p>
<p style="margin: 10px 0;padding: 0;mso-line-height-rule: exactly;-ms-text-size-adjust: 100%;-webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%;color: #666666;font-family: Helvetica;font-size: 16px;line-height: 150%;text-align: left;"><span style="font-size:16px"><span style="font-family:tahoma,verdana,segoe,sans-serif">The program will offer students the opportunity to have hands-on experience fields such as:<br>
- Aquatic insect ecology<br>
- Web-spinning spider ecology<br>
- Plant-animal interactions<br>
- Plant population biology<br>
- Soil and leaf litter fungal diversity</span></span></p>
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<p style="margin: 10px 0;padding: 0;mso-line-height-rule: exactly;-ms-text-size-adjust: 100%;-webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%;color: #666666;font-family: Helvetica;font-size: 16px;line-height: 150%;text-align: left;"><span style="font-size:16px"><span style="font-family:tahoma,verdana,segoe,sans-serif">The program is limited to undergraduate students pursuing a bachelor degree at a college or university during summer 2016 that are US citizens or permanent residents.</span></span></p>
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<div style="text-align: left;"><span style="color:#696969"><span style="font-size:16px"><span style="font-family:tahoma,verdana,segoe,sans-serif">On November 21, 2015, the Luquillo Schoolyard LTER Program conducted an eight hour field protocol workshop, welcoming two of our former Schoolyard participants: Glenda Almodóvar and Diana González, and two new teachers, Arlene Gómez and Yomaira Ortiz from the Carmen Feliciano Middle School in Palmer, a local El Yunque community. The objective of the workshop was to learn about field methodologies for assessing forest dynamics, stream ecology and soil characterization at El Verde, in addition to data collection, entry and analysis.<br>
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Guiding the teachers were Dr. Omar Pérez Reyes, Christopher Nytch, and Seth Rifkin, Research Manager of the Luquillo Forest Dynamics Plot. The teachers and the mentors conducted a brief analysis of the data, comparing their results to those collected in previous internships. In addition to the regular data collection activities, Adriana Herrera, a post-doctoral technician at El Verde Field Station, together with Sarah Stankavich, LTER Coordinator, lead a night walk that focused on discovering the nocturnal biodiversity at El Verde. <br>
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Each teacher chose one protocol that they would like to conduct with their students during the spring semester. They will return to El Verde with up to 20 students in the coming months to be trained in their chosen protocol, and they will also have the option to use LUQ LTER data sets to develop an ecological research question that leads to a presentation at the 2016 LTER Schoolyard Annual Symposium.<br>
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<div style="text-align: left;"><span style="color:#696969"><span style="font-size:16px"><span style="font-family:tahoma,verdana,segoe,sans-serif">On November 20th, 2015, 22 science teachers from private and public schools in Puerto Rico participated in a six-hour Data Jam Workshop hosted at the Forward Learning facilities in Guaynabo. <span style="background-color:transparent; font-style:normal; font-variant:normal; font-weight:400; text-decoration:none; vertical-align:baseline">During the workshop, teachers had the opportunity to work with the 1994 and 2015 drought data and parameters such as stream flow, rainfall, reservoir height and soil moisture obtained from LUQ-LTER, LCZO, and USGS</span><span style="background-color:transparent; font-style:normal; font-variant:normal; font-weight:400; text-decoration:none; vertical-align:baseline"> </span><span style="background-color:transparent; font-style:normal; font-variant:normal; font-weight:400; text-decoration:none; vertical-align:baseline">databases</span><span style="background-color:transparent; font-style:normal; font-variant:normal; font-weight:400; text-decoration:none; vertical-align:baseline"> </span><span style="background-color:transparent; font-style:normal; font-variant:normal; font-weight:400; text-decoration:none; vertical-align:baseline">to investigate a basic ecology question and develop a claim-evidence-reasoning PowerPoint presentation to demonstrate their findings. Excel and PowerPoint training was provided by Dayánez Torres from Forward Learning. Following the workshop, the teachers will conduct data jams with their students back in the classroom over the course of the school year, motivating them to use ecological data collected in the Luquillo Experimental Forest by the LCZO, LUQ-LTER and USGS to create a project that presents the data in a non-traditional way.</span><span style="background-color:transparent; font-style:normal; font-variant:normal; font-weight:400; text-decoration:none; vertical-align:baseline"> </span><span style="background-color:transparent; font-style:normal; font-variant:normal; font-weight:400; text-decoration:none; vertical-align:baseline">Students will be able to submit their creative projects for consideration to present at the annual symposium at UPRRP in May. Those teachers who successfully implement the data jam with their students are eligible be invited to participate in a Fieldwork Protocols workshop for the subsequent school year.</span></span></span></span><br>
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<div style="text-align: left;"><span style="color:#696969"><span style="font-size:16px"><span style="font-family:tahoma,verdana,segoe,sans-serif">The success of this effort was achieved through the collaboration among several partner groups and individuals: Dr. Steven McGee and Noelia Báez, LUQ-LTER educator representatives; Dr. Jess Zimmerman, LUQ-LTER Lead-PI; Bill McDowell, LCZO Lead-PI; Miguel León, LCZO Information Manager; Sra. Dilia Haddock, PR Department of Education Science Director; Alexis Torres, President of Forward Learning, and Mayrelis Narváez, a science educator consultant for Forward Learning.</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="color:#B22222"><span style="font-size:21px"><strong><span style="font-family:tahoma,verdana,segoe,sans-serif">Dr. Joseph Wunderle Awarded 2015 Ralph W. Schrieber Conservation Award</span></strong></span></span><br>
<div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size:21px"><span style="font-family:tahoma,verdana,segoe,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:16px">The American Ornithologists' Union awarded IITF scientist Dr. Joseph Wunderle the 2015 Ralph W. Schrieber Conservation Award. The award, established in 2005, "recognizes extraordinary scientific contributions to the conservation, restoration, or preservation of birds and/or their habitats by an individual or small team." Congratulations, Joe! <a href="http://lternet.us10.list-manage.com/track/click?u=3bfbcf00b80c0e72a4ca091af&id=e9f5100da6&e=cdc2d0dea1" target="_blank" style="mso-line-height-rule: exactly;-ms-text-size-adjust: 100%;-webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%;color: #656565;font-weight: normal;text-decoration: underline;">View the full article from AOU here</a></span></span></span><br>
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<span style="color:#B22222"><span style="font-size:21px"><span style="font-family:tahoma,verdana,segoe,sans-serif"><strong>White House Water Summit</strong></span></span></span>
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<span style="font-size:16px"><span style="font-family:tahoma,verdana,segoe,sans-serif">On <span data-term="goog_441148561" tabindex="0">March 22, 2016</span>, the Administration will host a White House Water Summit to raise awareness of water issues in the United States, and to catalyze ideas and actions to help build a sustainable and secure water future through innovative solutions. This event, which builds on the December 15, 2015 <a href="http://lternet.us10.list-manage.com/track/click?u=3bfbcf00b80c0e72a4ca091af&id=debada61aa&e=cdc2d0dea1" target="_blank" style="mso-line-height-rule: exactly;-ms-text-size-adjust: 100%;-webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%;color: #656565;font-weight: normal;text-decoration: underline;"> White House Roundtable on Water Innovation</a> and other Administration activities, will bring together representatives from Federal, state, regional, local and tribal levels, and from other stakeholder groups, to discuss and advance progress in this important area.<br>
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As part of this effort, the White House is issuing a call-to-action for individuals, organizations, and institutions from all sectors to take new, specific, and measurable steps to address key water issues, such as drought or flooding; water availability or quality; water-use efficiency; water security; ecosystem requirements; or others. If applicable, announcements of these steps may be incorporated into official materials for the White House Water Summit, and involved individuals may be invited to participate in the White House Water Summit and/or related events.<br>
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For more information on this event (including links to examples of commitments made in response to previous White House calls-to-action), and to submit your input, click <strong><u><a href="http://lternet.us10.list-manage.com/track/click?u=3bfbcf00b80c0e72a4ca091af&id=ccf7a9c27c&e=cdc2d0dea1" target="_blank" style="mso-line-height-rule: exactly;-ms-text-size-adjust: 100%;-webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%;color: #656565;font-weight: normal;text-decoration: underline;">here</a></u></strong>.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family:tahoma,verdana,segoe,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:16px"><span style="color:#B22222">Tamara Heartsill-Scalley and Grizelle Gonz<span lang="ES-PR">á</span>lez holding a hardcopy of the 1<sup>st</sup> special issue of Caribbean Naturalist on the 16<sup>th</sup> Caribbean Foresters Meeting. </span><a href="http://lternet.us10.list-manage.com/track/click?u=3bfbcf00b80c0e72a4ca091af&id=114d630309&e=cdc2d0dea1" target="_blank" style="mso-line-height-rule: exactly;-ms-text-size-adjust: 100%;-webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%;color: #656565;font-weight: normal;text-decoration: underline;"><span style="color:#B22222">See the contents of the issue here.</span></a></span></span>
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<span style="color:#B22222"><span style="font-size:20px"><strong><span style="font-family:tahoma,verdana,segoe,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:23px">Recent Publications</span></span></strong></span></span><br>
<div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family:tahoma,verdana,segoe,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:16px"><span style="color:#696969">Dalling, J.W., K. Heineman, G. González<strong>, </strong> and R. Ostertag, R. 2015. Geographic, environmental and biotic sources of variation in the nutrient relations of tropical montane forests. Journal of Tropical Ecology, Special issue on RCN – TMF. Published online. <span lang="EN">DOI:</span>10.1017/S0266467415000619<br>
<span style="font-size:14px"> </span></span><span style="font-size:14px"><a href="http://lternet.us10.list-manage1.com/track/click?u=3bfbcf00b80c0e72a4ca091af&id=d854dd2185&e=cdc2d0dea1" target="_blank" style="mso-line-height-rule: exactly;-ms-text-size-adjust: 100%;-webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%;color: #656565;font-weight: normal;text-decoration: underline;"><span style="color: #696969;">Click here to access this article</span></a></span><br>
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<span style="color:#696969">Figueroa-Nieves, D., McDowell, W. H., Potter, J. D., and Martinez, G. 2015. Limited uptake of nutrient input from sewage effluent in a tropical landscape. Freshwater Science DOI:10.1086/684992.<br>
</span><a href="http://lternet.us10.list-manage.com/track/click?u=3bfbcf00b80c0e72a4ca091af&id=007d1a22a0&e=cdc2d0dea1" target="_blank" style="mso-line-height-rule: exactly;-ms-text-size-adjust: 100%;-webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%;color: #656565;font-weight: normal;text-decoration: underline;"><span style="color:#696969"><span style="font-size:14px">Click here to access this article</span></span></a><br>
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<span style="line-height:115%"><span style="color:#696969">González, G., and T. Heartsill-Scalley. 2016. Building a Collaborative Network to Understand Regional Forest Dynamics and for the Advancement of Forestry Initiatives in the Caribbean. Caribbean Naturalist 245-256.<br>
</span><span style="font-size:14px"><a href="http://lternet.us10.list-manage.com/track/click?u=3bfbcf00b80c0e72a4ca091af&id=fbe51ad86c&e=cdc2d0dea1" target="_blank" style="mso-line-height-rule: exactly;-ms-text-size-adjust: 100%;-webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%;color: #656565;font-weight: normal;text-decoration: underline;"><span style="color: #696969;">Click here to access this article</span></a></span></span><br>
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<span style="line-height:115%"><span style="color:#696969">Heartsill-Scalley, T. and G. González. 2016. Introduction: Caribbean forest dynamics and community and regional forestry initiatives. Caribbean Naturalist 1-12.<br>
</span><a href="http://lternet.us10.list-manage.com/track/click?u=3bfbcf00b80c0e72a4ca091af&id=e142861569&e=cdc2d0dea1" target="_blank" style="mso-line-height-rule: exactly;-ms-text-size-adjust: 100%;-webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%;color: #656565;font-weight: normal;text-decoration: underline;"><span style="color:#696969"><span style="font-size:14px">Click here to access this article</span></span></a><br>
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<span style="color:#696969">Meléndez-Ackerman, E., J. Rojas-Sandoval, D. S. Fernández, G. González, A. López, J. Sustache, M. Morales, M. García-Bermúdez, and S. Aragón. 2016.<strong> </strong>Associations between soil variables and vegetation structure and composition of Caribbean Dry Forests. Caribbean Naturalist 176-198.</span></span><span style="color:#696969"> </span><br>
<span style="line-height:115%"><span style="text-decoration:none"><span style="color:#696969"> </span><span style="font-size:14px"><a href="http://lternet.us10.list-manage1.com/track/click?u=3bfbcf00b80c0e72a4ca091af&id=66e5519a34&e=cdc2d0dea1" target="_blank" style="mso-line-height-rule: exactly;-ms-text-size-adjust: 100%;-webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%;color: #656565;font-weight: normal;text-decoration: underline;"><span style="color: #696969;">Click here to access this article</span></a></span></span></span></span></span><br>
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<span style="font-family:tahoma,verdana,segoe,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:16px"><span class="_5yl5">Ramseyer, C. A., and T. L. Mote. Atmospheric controls on Puerto Rico precipitation using artificial neural networks. Climate Dynamics (2016): 1-12.</span></span></span><br>
<span style="font-family:tahoma,verdana,segoe,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:16px"><span style="line-height:115%"><span style="text-decoration:none"><span style="font-size:14px"><span style="color: #696969;"> </span><a href="http://lternet.us10.list-manage.com/track/click?u=3bfbcf00b80c0e72a4ca091af&id=f0fb67914f&e=cdc2d0dea1" target="_blank" style="mso-line-height-rule: exactly;-ms-text-size-adjust: 100%;-webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%;color: #656565;font-weight: normal;text-decoration: underline;"><span style="color: #696969;">Click here to access this article</span></a></span></span></span></span></span><br>
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<span style="color:#696969"><span style="font-family:tahoma,verdana,segoe,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:16px"><span style="line-height:115%">Scholl, M.A., J. B. Shanley, S. F. Murphy, J. K. Willenbring, M. Occhi, and G. González. 2015. Stable-isotope and solute-chemistry approaches to flow characterization in a forested tropical watershed, Luquillo Mountains, Puerto Rico. Applied Geochemistry </span></span></span></span><span style="font-family:times new roman,serif; font-size:12.0pt; line-height:115%" lang="EN"><span style="font-family:tahoma,verdana,segoe,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:16px"><span style="color:#696969">63:484-497.<br>
</span><span style="font-size:14px"><a href="http://lternet.us10.list-manage.com/track/click?u=3bfbcf00b80c0e72a4ca091af&id=a5e9fac104&e=cdc2d0dea1" target="_blank" style="mso-line-height-rule: exactly;-ms-text-size-adjust: 100%;-webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%;color: #656565;font-weight: normal;text-decoration: underline;"><span style="color: #696969;">Click here to access this article</span></a></span></span></span></span></div>
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