[LTER-All-lter] LTER News from the NCO | 2017 Autumn update

[Marty Downs]

[image: Santa Barbara shoreline and wharf header]

December 18, 2017

*News from the NCO* is a forum for sharing news and activities from the
Network Communications Office and from across LTER Network. This is our
water cooler. If you have personnel changes, new grants, cross-Network
activities that might interest your LTER colleagues, please send them along
to downs at nceas.lternet.edu.

The NCO and NCEAS have been feeling the effects of the Thomas fire, which
continues to burn in the hills around Santa Barbara. Smoke and power
outages have forced most NCEAS personnel to work from alternate locations,
but the fire is now 45% contained and the fight seems to have turned a
corner Sunday. Thanks from all here for your thoughts and good wishes.
Save these dates

   - 2018 NSF-LTER Symposium
   April 19, 2018 – NSF Headquarters, 2415 Eisenhower Avenue, Alexandria,
   Virginia
   - 2018 LTER Executive Board Meeting
   May 15, 2018 – Madison, WI
   - 2018 Science Council Meeting
   May 16-17, 2018 – Madison, WI
   - 2018 Lead PI Meeting
   May 18, 2018 – Madison, WI
   - 2018 LTER All Scientists Meeting
   September 30-October 4, 2018 – Asilomar Conference Grounds, Pacific
   Grove, California

2018 synthesis webinar series

Wondering what all those LTER synthesis working groups have been busy
doing? The NCO is hosting a spring webinar series, featuring each of the
current synthesis working groups. Webinars will be on Zoom, at 11 am PST.
Additional details to follow, but save these dates:

   - January 11 – Discussion of team science (Stephanie Hampton) and series
   introduction (Jenn Caselle)
   - February 8 – Communities to Ecosystems: Integrating plant community
   and ecosystem responses to chronic global change drivers (Avolio, Wilcox)
   - March 8 – Stream elemental cycling: Global patterns in stream energy
   and nutrient cycling (Wymore, Kaushal)
   - April 12 – Scaling-Up Productivity Responses to Changes in
   Biodiversity (Isbell, Cowles, Dee)
   - May 10 – Metacommunity mediated responses to ecosystem disturbance
   (Wisnoski, Sokol, Swan)
   - June 7 – Synthesizing population and community synchrony to understand
   drivers of ecological stability across LTER sites (Hallett, Reumann, Suding)

New LTER website coming soon

The LTER Network Communications Office is working with New Directions in
Computing
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to
develop a new website for the Network. Features include more and
better-quality images, with easy-to-update LTER site profile pages and
image galleries. Education and research content has been expanded and
updated. Integration between the main web site, image galleries, and
intranet will be improved, making it simpler to use gallery images and
documents on web pages and to navigate between formerly separate sites. An
events calendar with i-cal integration will be available, as well as more
fluid integration with  social media and newsletters.
Baltimore Public Schools to incorporate BES science

The Baltimore Ecosystem Study will be incorporating LTER data into
Baltimore Public Schools chemistry curriculum. The newly designed
Integrating Chemistry and Earth science (ICE) unit infuses Earth science
into chemistry at the high school level; it will be taught to every student
taking chemistry this year. ICE aligns with the Next Generation Science
Standards (NGSS), adopted by the state of Maryland in 2013, which are
designed to help students practice ‘real science’ and explore connections
across scientific disciplines.
Open Positions

Several key positions are opening up around the Network. Please circulate
these announcements to qualified candidates:

   - Diversity Mentor faculty position in Earth & Environment Department at
   FIU, Miami <https://lternet.edu/node/84533>
   - Assistant Professor, Ecosystem Ecology and Biodiversity-University of
   Florida <https://lternet.edu/node/84532>
   - Coastal Scientist Position – University of Georgia
   <https://lternet.edu/node/84527>
   - Postdoctoral Scientist Opportunity in Freshwater Fish Ecology and
   Habitat Modeling – University of Alaska Fairbanks
   <https://lternet.edu/node/84535>
   - Ph.D. Graduate Research Assistantship in Stream Fish Ecology –
   University of Alaska Fairbanks <https://lternet.edu/node/84534>
   - Graduate Student Opportunity: C and N cycling across a boreal-arctic
   gradient – University of Alaska Fairbanks
   <https://lternet.edu/node/84528>

To learn about LTER Network-related job openings as they arise, email
downs at nceas.ucsb requesting to join opportunities at lternet.edu or visit
our opportunities
page <https://lternet.edu/opportunities>.
Research Experience for Undergraduates and Internships

   - 2018 REUs at California Current Ecosystem
   <https://lternet.edu/node/84540>
   - 2018 URP with Urban Water Innovation Network: Sustainable Water
   Transdisciplinary Research <https://lternet.edu/node/84539>
   - 2018 REU positions at Cary Institute: Translational Ecology
   <https://lternet.edu/node/84538>
   - 2018 REUs at Sevilleta Field Station – 12 positions
   <https://lternet.edu/node/84537>
   - 2018 REU at Hubbard Brook Experimental Forest
   <https://lternet.edu/node/84536>

Please share REU program announcements or individual REU opportunities with
the LTER Network Office as they arise.
NEON wants your input

The National Ecological Observatory Network is gathering feedback from its
stakeholder community to better understand its needs and to optimize use of
the Observatory as it transitions from construction to initial operations.
Please take 5 minutes to provide your feedback HERE
<http://bit.ly/2AcMhje> before
January 31. A report from this effort will be developed and shared with
NEON stakeholders, and the information will be used in its strategic
planning process.

Interested participants will be entered into a drawing to win one of five
$25 cash prizes. The survey averages 5-7 minutes to complete. All of your
responses are completely anonymous. If you have any questions about this
survey, you may contact Alycia Crall <%20acrall at battelleecology.org>,
the NEON Project evaluator.
Conferences, Special Issues and other Opportunities

The Powell Center <https://powellcenter.usgs.gov/> seeks projects that
address development and testing of important Earth system science ideas and
theories using existing data, cutting-edge analysis of Earth system
information, and use of sound science in policy and management
decisions. Working
Group Proposal <https://powellcenter.usgs.gov/proposals> submission
deadline is January 31, 2018.
The global ILTER <http://www.ilter.network/> and its East Asia Pacific
(EAP) Network will conduct a one-week joint conference from 15-19 October
2018 in Taichung City, Taiwan.  The topic is Resilience of
Social-Ecological Systems in natural and in human-dominated landscapes. The
meeting will be hosted by the Taiwan Agricultural Research Institute,
Tunghai University, TERN (Taiwan Ecological Research Network).  For more
information, please see the featured news item on the ILTER website:
www.ilter.network

The Fall Meeting of the American Geosciences Union
<http://fallmeeting.agu.org/2017/> was held December 11-15 in New Orleans.
The LTER Network Communications Office compiled a list of LTER-related talks
<https://lternet.edu/agu-2017>, which was also circulated through a
National Science Foundation news Release. Highlights included a day-long
symposium on Arctic vulnerability and resilience; a session on the
water-energy-society nexus in urban systems; artificial ice storms and
hurricanes; and several sessions on drought and precipitation manipulations.
Newsletters

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issued monthly, provides brief, accessible summaries of recent science from
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broader ecological community as well as LTER Network scientists. Please
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quarterly, provides regular organizational updates to LTER-associated
personnel.*

>From related organizations:

   - The LTER data repository is now the Environmental Data Initiative
   <http://environmentaldatainitiative.us14.list-manage.com/subscribe?u=c258a774cbd4d34290410d1ea&id=da346b264c>,
   serving LTER as well as a broader community of environmental biologists.
   Visit the EDI website and subscribe to the bi-monthly newsletter to stay
   up-to-date on their training webinars and in-person training opportunities.
   - Critical Zone Observatory Network
   <http://us11.campaign-archive2.com/home/?u=352231f5e14f7bad9721e3a45&id=330ade1465>
offers
   an occasional newsletter with news on Network research, education, and
   meeting activities.
   - The International LTER Network <https://www.ilter.network/> maintains
   an email list and a twitter presence <https://twitter.com/ILTER_network>.
   Check out their new web site at https://www.ilter.network/
   - Sign up for NEON’s monthly newsletter
   <http://www.neonscience.org/observatory/observatory-blog> to learn more
   about the National Ecological Observatory Network and data collections
   rapidly coming online.

-- 
Marty Downs
Deputy Director
LTER Network Communications Office (LTER NCO) <https://nco.lternet.edu/>
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