[LTER-All-lter] News from the LTER-NCO: November 2016

Fri Nov 4 13:51:39 PDT 2016

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November 2, 2016
*Synthesis*

The LTER-NCO received nineteen proposals for Synthesis Working Groups in
the October call for proposals. The review committee meets in late November
and selections will be announced in December.

Meanwhile, the Metacommunities Working Group
<https://www.nceas.ucsb.edu/featured/sokol> got started with a bang,
hosting a very successful workshop at ESA
<https://eco.confex.com/eco/2016/webprogram/Session11862.html> and their
first meeting at the LTER-NCO in September.
*Mark your calendars*

The NSF mini-symposium is scheduled for March 21, 2017. Keep an eye on the
web site for topics and speakers.

The annual Executive Board meeting is scheduled for May 16, 2017 at Hubbard
Brook LTER. The Science Council meeting will follow on May 17th, 18th, and
19th.
*Communications Trainings*

By popular demand, the NCO is hosting a discussion of video abstracts and
video shorts
<https://nco.lternet.edu/video-abstracts-where-when-why-and-how/> on
November 17, 2016. Pre-registration
<https://ucsb.zoom.us/meeting/register/7fb8907223bc4ce9cde7dc3c8da9331e> is
required and background reading
<https://nco.lternet.edu/nco/communications/videos/> is recommended.

Through a collaboration with SciFund Challenge, the NCO is offering an 8
week online, interactive course in science communications fundamentals: Telling
the Right Story, for the Right People, at the Right Time
<https://nco.lternet.edu/science-communications-fundamentals/>. The course
will run from January 8-March 4, 2017.
*Meetings and Outreach*

*ILTER*: Almost 50 US LTER researchers were among the 300 delegates at ILTER’s
first open science meeting <https://lternet.edu/ilter2016>,  held October
9-13 in Kruger National Park, South Africa. Meeting highlights included
workshops on uncertainty in long-term research, distributed experiments,
and visits to the many long-term sites operated by SANParks and SAEON.

*AGU Meeting*: LTER researchers will present over 100 talks and posters at
the American Geophysical Union meeting <https://fallmeeting.agu.org/2016/>,
December 12-16.  Find a list of LTER-related talks
<http://lternet.edu/agu2016abstracts> on the LTERNET web site. Did we miss
yours? Drop a line to nco-comm at lternet.edu to add it. And next year, be
sure to include “LTER” somewhere in your affiliation or abstract!

*OBFS Annual Meeting*: Matt Jones presented at the Organization of
Biological Field Stations Annual Meeting
<http://www.obfs.org/annual-meeting> Sept 21-25 in Sitka, Alaska on behalf
of the LTER-NCO and the Network. He encountered strong interest in
developing collaborative working group proposals.
*NCO Personnel Update*

The NCO welcomes our new Education Lead, Sam Norlin
<https://nco.lternet.edu/nco/nco-personnel/>. He’ll continue as Project
Director for  the Raising Educational Achievement through Cultural Heritage
(REACH Up) Project at University of Alaska-Fairbanks while devoting 30% of
his time to stewarding the LTER Network education effort.
*LTER Newsletters*

LTER Science update
<http://us12.campaign-archive1.com/?u=d7494403ed9d8c97a5479f0d4&id=4bd8b90142>,
issued monthly, provides brief, accessible summaries of recent science from
across the Network. It is designed to inform partners, educators, and the
broader ecological community as well as Network scientists. Please share
and encourage your colleagues to subscribe.

News from the NCO <https://nco.lternet.edu/news-from-the-nco/>, issued
quarterly, provides regular organizational updates to LTER-associated
personnel.
*LTER Mailing List Reference*

Quick! Which email lists reaches site administrators and which reaches site
PI’s? The NCO has recently updated the major centrally-managed email lists
and added this handy reference page
<http://intranet2.lternet.edu/content/frequently-requested-network-email-lists>
to
the web site.
*Open Positions*

   - The Central Arizona-Phoenix LTER is seeking a program manager
   <https://lternet.edu/CAP-Program-Manager>. Deadline is November 10.
   Spread the word, fast.
   - The Environmental Data Initiative is seeking a data manager
   <https://lternet.edu/EDI-Data-Manager-UW>. Deadlinbe: November 21.
   - Santa Barbara Coastal LTER seeks a data manager
   <http://sbc.lternet.edu/>.
   - NCEAS is currently seeking <https://www.nceas.ucsb.edu/positionsopen> a
   deputy director, a scientific programmer, and a training and outreach
   coordinator.

*Conferences and Special Issues*

LTER is partnering with ESA to get out the word about their annual *Life
Discovery Conference* <http://www.esa.org/ldc/>, which highlights leading
science, curriculum design, implementation, and data exploration for high
school and undergraduate education. Proposals <http://www.esa.org/ldc/cfp/> for
short presentations and hands-on workshops are being accepted until
December 15, 2016

*Science of the Total Environment*
<http://www.journals.elsevier.com/science-of-the-total-environment/> is
planning a special issue on detecting and explaining natural and
anthropogenic changes by making use of large extent, long-term ecological
research facilities of the international long-term ecosystem research
(ILTER) network.

They are particularly interested in regional or global studies. To inquire
about contributing a manuscript, email peter.haase at senckenberg.de by
December 1, 2016, with: Name of author(s), institute, country, indicative
title, abstract.

*ESA invites proposals*
<http://campaign.r20.constantcontact.com/render?m=1122476215901&ca=cd38f801-c45f-4e55-acd4-af868f91d3c0>
 for Workshops
<http://r20.rs6.net/tn.jsp?f=001IAlGR-8t49Stu3bhOt2kvFiKv9PxTpbFda-Jl-rVfPKI_rcErwI4v5m0apKu9TlGZQzDz-t21HRKOKAoDa2svnKNB6kPt5E7L6ci7HbwL-CCeKF4Xt2jqI065I5xT_q_L5cnzN7aVpyKya2C6Owy6SQ_PWAaDXEVL14CKEWUhjSXMSSVQk_xU2vaeehfmR3OdYQcWXbZBSM=&c=&ch=>
, Special Sessions
<http://r20.rs6.net/tn.jsp?f=001IAlGR-8t49Stu3bhOt2kvFiKv9PxTpbFda-Jl-rVfPKI_rcErwI4v5m0apKu9TlGT4fViLOJ0pC-5DvQ3yYmX5ocL2sqYb72ROG1lE0AELWdOIeRdTGN88HxBTUXaIEUXFVRAL4S1r2r6qo8WUZ4eLhO7FeuBhedTx542mEIE8Roh7ImmVuFjWRgk5gIU1HgR9HXgcJSQSE=&c=&ch=>
, Field Trips
<http://r20.rs6.net/tn.jsp?f=001IAlGR-8t49Stu3bhOt2kvFiKv9PxTpbFda-Jl-rVfPKI_rcErwI4v5m0apKu9TlGRSn7HwazmVE0AXYGgcF5T0rtrOJPL5CdNStV0RddYsB9VdyWP9KhTdMS5gSxS5-_H-TgcWz13bxLzZ3s_sJrljzDavKk-Q6bNkILaLAMQSuaCGBBAcRBlXwxP9Fm71s4doUH_2nal4g=&c=&ch=>,
and Ignite Sessions
<http://r20.rs6.net/tn.jsp?f=001IAlGR-8t49Stu3bhOt2kvFiKv9PxTpbFda-Jl-rVfPKI_rcErwI4v5m0apKu9TlGTdM9izrc77f5FnsBrUAzevP8VL3ZQaAxTUlAnzwaGnVgIzog2UetySVwBaOvPvX2v3N4IQhu91xI7wRHEeMZnCg-fopnFAJlH244nhkdm3Am0Znf0Also9YycC0cxXx9BiLz9_RZ8lk=&c=&ch=>
for
the 2017 Annual Meeting in Portland, Oregon. The meeting theme is "Linking
biodiversity, material cycling and ecosystem services in a changing world."

Marty Downs
Communications Lead
LTER Network Communications Office (LTER NCO)
LTER Science Update
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National Center for Ecological Analysis and Synthesis (NCEAS)
University of California, Santa Barbara
Office: 805-893-7549
Cell: 617-833-7930
downs at nceas.ucsb.edu
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