[LTER-All-lter] News from the NCO - Summer 2017

[Marty Downs]

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July 15, 2017
Governance Update

The LTER Science Council and Executive Board met at Hubbard Brook, May
16-19, where they welcomed representatives of three new LTER sites
<https://lternet.edu/node/84416>, discussed some great science, and made a
few key decisions:

   - LTER bylaws
   <http://intranet2.lternet.edu/documents/lter-network-bylaws-2017-revisions>
have
   been revised to refer to the Network Communications Office (NCO)
   <https://nco.lternet.edu/>, rather than the LTER Network Office (LNO)
   and to clarify the relationships among the LTER Executive Board, the
   Science Council, the Network Communications Office, and the Environmental
   Data Initiative (EDI) <https://environmentaldatainitiative.org/>.
   - The Director of the LTER Network Communications Office will hold a
   voting seat on the LTER Executive Board and the Director of the
   Environmental Data Initiative will hold an *ex officio* seat on the LTER
   Executive Board. The Information Management and Education and Outreach
   Committees will continue to hold non-voting seats on the LTER Executive
   Board and the LTER Science Council.
   - The Science Council approved a recommendation by the Executive Board
   to update the LTER data access policy
   <http://intranet2.lternet.edu/documents/data-access-policy-revised-5192017>
to
   reflect the movement towards open and unrestricted access to data. When no
   specific access policy is specified for a data set, the LTER data portal
   will now default to  a Creative Commons license requiring attribution (CC
   BY 4.0 <https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/>).
   - We appreciate the service of  Anne Giblin (PIE), Gary Lovett (HBR),
   and Sherrie Johnson (AND), who rotated off the Executive Board, and welcome
   new (and returning) EB members: Katherine Suding (NWT), David Foster (HFR),
   and Jess Zimmerman (LUQ).
   - The LTER Information Management Committee is meeting before the Earth
   Science Information Partners (ESIP)
   <http://www.esipfed.org/meetings/upcoming-meetings/esip-summer-meeting-2017>
Annual
   Meeting in Bloomington, Indiana, July 24.

Synthesis Activities

In addition to the five synthesis working groups
<https://www.nceas.ucsb.edu/lter-network-communications-office#synthesis>
currently
underway, the LTER Science Council is working on products emerging from the
2017 and 2018 Science Council meetings.

   - Peter Groffman is pulling together a set of papers from each site on
   LTER Futures for a special issue of *Ecosphere.*
   - A team led by Evelyn Gaiser is organizing a manuscript that will
   elaborate a framework for understanding humans as an integral part of
   ecosystems.

LTER at the Ecological Society of America (ESA) Meeting

A listing of talks and posters being presented at ESA will be available
shortly. Meanwhile please plan on joining us for:

   - Science Stories <http://portland-esa-mixer.weebly.com/>, the Wednesday
   evening mixer at McMenamins Mission Theater, cosponsored by LTER
   <https://lternet.edu/>, NCEAS, <https://www.nceas.ucsb.edu/> and SNAPP
   <http://snappartnership.net/about/>.

The NCO is organizing three workshops at ESA, and will be promoting REU
opportunities at the Diversity Luncheon, but will not have a booth this
year. Workshops:

   - Video in a Hurry (and on a Shoestring)
   <https://eco.confex.com/eco/2017/webprogram/Session13182.html>, Sunday,
   August 6, 12-5 p.m.
   - Phenomenal Ecology in the Classroom: Turning Phenomena into Something
   Phenomenal for K-12 Learning,
   <https://eco.confex.com/eco/2017/webprogram/Session13159.html>Tuesday,
   August 8, 2017: 11:30 AM-1:15 p.m.
   - Data Nuggets and Data Jams: Strategies to Increase Your Broader
   Impacts and Student Quantitative Reasoning,
   <https://eco.confex.com/eco/2017/webprogram/Session13164.html>Thursday,
   August 10, 2017: 11:30 AM-1:15 p.m.

Communications Trainings

Curriculum materials from the NCO’s  8-week online, interactive course in
science communications are now available online at  Telling the Right
Story, for the Right People, at the Right Time
<https://nco.lternet.edu/science-communications-fundamentals/>.
Save the Dates

   - The 2018 Science Council/Executive Board Meeting will be hosted by the
   Northern Temperate Lakes LTER. Madison, here we come!
      - May 15: Executive Board
      - May 16 & 17: Science Council
      - May 18 (a.m.): PI Meeting
   - Tentative dates for the 2018 All-Scientists Meeting are September
   9-13th, 2018 at Asilomar Conference Grounds
   <http://www.visitasilomar.com/>.
   - Can’t keep track of key LTER dates? The NCO maintains a calendar
   <https://nco.lternet.edu/nco-calendar/> with key committee and
   Network-wide meetings.

NCO Personnel Update

After 22 years of dedication to improving the availability and usability of
environmental data, Mark Schildhauer is retiring
<https://www.nceas.ucsb.edu/news/Mark-Schildhauer-retires> from the the
day-to-day management of NCEAS computing, but he’ll continue to apply his
talents to a variety of special projects.
Open Positions

   - The Rassweiler and Lester Labs at Florida State University are seeking
    a research technician
<https://lternet.edu/research-technician-fsu-2017> with
   strong quantitative skills to work on measuring marine biodiversity as part
   of a multi-institution Marine Biodiversity Observing Network
   <http://sbc.marinebon.org/about/> project.

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>.
Conferences and Special Issues

Abstracts for the Fall 2018 American Geophysical Union (AGU) Meeting
<https://fallmeeting.agu.org/2017/abstract-submissions/> are due August 2
(July 26 for early submission). Please include LTER or Long-Term Ecological
Research in your abstract to help us find and promote your talk.

Also, consider submitting an abstract to Public Affairs session 013: How
Does Your Geoscience Research Matter and Can You Explain How it Matters to
the Public?
<https://agu.confex.com/agu/fm17/preliminaryview.cgi/Session24142>
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-- 
Marty Downs
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