[LTER-All-lter] LTER Network News | December 2020

[Marty Downs]

December 2019

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

LTER Network Self Study
<https://lternet.edu/wp-content/uploads/2019/10/LTER_Self_Study_2019-10-04.pdf>
is
available on the LTER Network website. NSF is convening the review
committee, which will complete its work over the next several months. Many
thanks to all the hard working members of the self study committee!

Sethuraman Panchanathan nominated to be next NSF director
<https://nsf.gov/news/news_summ.jsp?cntn_id=299735&org=NSF&from=news>.
Currently, Dr. Panchanathan leads the knowledge enterprise development at
Arizona State University (ASU), which advances research, innovation,
strategic partnerships, entrepreneurship, and global and economic
development at ASU.

Battelle Names Paula Mabee as Chief Scientist and Observatory Director
<https://www.neonscience.org/observatory/observatory-blog/battelle-names-paula-mabee-chief-scientist-observatory-director>
for
National Ecological Observatory Network. Currently a professor in the
Department of Biology at the University of South Dakota, Mabee served as
Division Director for the Division of Environmental Biology in the
Directorate of Biological Sciences at the National Science Foundation from
2015 until 2017.

Forest Structural Diversity Workshop
<https://purdue.ca1.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_5sCqQ1gM8c0ZMah>, May 18-20,
2020 at the NEON headquarters in Boulder, Colorado. University faculty
members, government or NGO scientists, postdoctoral researchers, and PhD
students nearing degree completion are welcome to apply. Travel support is
available for up to 30 participants. Application deadline is January 20,
2020.

Applications are now being accepted for the 2020 SEEDS National Field Trip
<https://esa.org/seeds/field-trip/national-field-trip/> for undergraduates
to the Sevilleta LTER site in La Joya, New Mexico from April 15-19.
Application deadline is January 31, 2020.  Or support field trip
opportunities through a contribution to  the Henry L. Gholz National SEEDS
Field trip endowment
<http://r20.rs6.net/tn.jsp?f=001PKLy_VIyD7Kyh9uhZyFUAImLB_EDgQ50bhKbK8t1rxg37ccHT5uYkX7-3dYI1Lti5TVpWBYhJjmLG4r7u_upLa9OG0YDm1Edg2I-xTRuZKC6N41Om4ItS2gwiMEwKbVqFuCxy4vpVhEZPsHwQsDJi4khuOirwlxe&c=zD_RZUj_VWTRTvPzkZek50TR37wfLdx-SySJKbBTQ-9ocXqTF9Qxuw==&ch=6ZZe-KoXyJfvmgUjRVYbpouIqenL80H5KnB-Hi3708z1sh4VcJmuog==>,
which delivers life-changing opportunities to explore and discover
ecological connections and engagement with like-minded students and
scientists who study our world.

SESYNC SEEDS Workshop on Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion
<https://www.sesync.org/opportunities/research-workshops/diversity-equity-and-inclusion-in-socio-environmental-synthesis>
in
Socio-Environmental Synthesis Research, March 24-27, 2020 in Annapolis,
Maryland. In addition to building Socio-Environmental synthesis skills and
advancing scientific diversity, the workshop is designed to prepare
graduate students to lead and/or otherwise contribute to the beginnings of
a Graduate Pursuit. Application deadline: January 21, 2020.

Enabling Interdisciplinary and Team Science
<https://www.aibs.org/events/team_science_event.html>: This intensive,
two-day, interactive, professional development course, hosted by the
American Institute of Biological Sciences, was designed by scientists and
experts on collaboration and teamwork to provide participants with the
knowledge and skills required to become productive and effective members of
scientific teams. Next session is April 27-28, 2020 in Washington D.C.

The NATURA project (Nature-based Solutions for Urban Resilience in the
Anthropocene) <https://natura-net.org/> is an international network of
networks that exchange & synthesize knowledge, data, and solutions among
researchers and practitioners on nature-based solutions to advance urban
resilience. You are invited to respond to this brief survey
<https://docs.google.com/forms/d/1g2NEjytAsxH0fhhOLN86SX4kbhAECFKx8tyix40u8Yo/viewform?ts=5dbb151e&edit_requested=true>
to
help the coordinating committee further articulate the vision and goals for
NATURA.
Save the Dates

*LTER Committee Meetings and LTER-related events are available for your
reference at any time on the LTER Network Calendar
<https://lternet.edu/home/lter-network-calendar/>.*

The 2020 LTER Science Council Meeting is scheduled for May 5-7, 2020 in
Tempe Arizona.

AGU Ocean Sciences Meeting <https://www2.agu.org/ocean-sciences-meeting/> is
scheduled for 16-21 February, 2020 in San Diego, CA. Heidi Sosik, who leads
the Northeast Shelf LTER site, will be keynoting. (Heidi rocked the Rachel
Carson lecture at AGU, btw)

Society for Range Management Annual Meeting will be held in Denver from
February 17-20, 2020. There are opportunities for LTER researchers to
participate in both the technical meeting
<http://www.srm2020.org/trade-show.html> and the range practicum
<http://www.srm2020.org/range-practicum.html>.
Around the Network

Plum Island Ecosystems LTER PI Anne Giblin has a new genus of cyanobacteria
named in her honor. And she’s in good company. The genera *Gibliniella* and
*Shackletoniella* were described in a recent issue of FEMS Microbiology
Ecology
<https://academic.oup.com/femsec/advance-article/doi/10.1093/femsec/fiz189/5645229>
.

Harvard Forest dendrochronology data is featured in a newly-released Data
Nugget <http://datanuggets.org/2019/12/window-into-a-trees-world/>.
Students use authentic data to study how a species of tree responds to
warming temperatures from climate change, and learn how to date real tree
cores.

Research and scientists from Hubbard Brook and Harvard Forest LTER sites
are both featured in this recent Northern Woods Resilient Forest series
<https://northernwoodlands.org/resilient-forest/part-3-the-birds-of-hubbard-brook>
.

Hubbard Brook LTER researchers also published a new Science Links report
titled “Confronting Our Changing Winters
<https://hubbardbrook.org/sites/default/files/documents/HBRF/reports/ConfrontingOurChangingWinters.pdf>”
that provides a set of specific indicators of how winter conditions are
changing, right now, on the ground, in northeastern North America.

A Torgersen Island, Antarctica penguin live webcam
<https://www.usap.gov/videoclipsandmaps/palwebcam.cfm> is now online –
follow Adelie penguin breeding season and watch for updates on the Palmer
LTER field season research cruises set for January and February.

Congratulations to Nancy Grimm of the Central Arizona Phoenix LTER, who
holds the Virginia M. Ullman Chair in Ecology in the School of Life
Sciences at Arizona State University, and was recently awarded the highest
ASU faculty award possible
<https://asunow.asu.edu/20191121-asu-news-5-top-asu-researchers-earn-prestigious-regents-professor-title>:
Regents Professor.
Recent Press
>From the National Science Foundation

Warming at the poles will have global consequences
<https://nsf.gov/discoveries/disc_summ.jsp?cntn_id=299694>
Microplastics million times more abundant in the ocean than previously
thought <https://nsf.gov/discoveries/disc_summ.jsp?cntn_id=299718>
Plant biodiversity struggles to return in wake of agricultural abandonment
<https://nsf.gov/discoveries/disc_summ.jsp?cntn_id=299644>
Other media

Northwoods Researcher Finds Tree Ring Sizes Match Historic Lake Levels,
Giving Window Into Past
<https://www.wxpr.org/post/northwoods-researcher-finds-tree-ring-sizes-match-historic-lake-levels-giving-window-past#stream/0>
|
WXPR Public Radio
360 Perspective: Allison Zahorec on Studying Microarthropods
<https://msutoday.msu.edu/360/2019/allison-zahorec-studying-microarthropods/?utm_source=weekly-newsletter&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=standard-promo&utm_content=image&id=13c8367fda16c9481c9734e4dd0d23c1>
|
MSU Today
Warming at the poles will soon be felt globally in rising seas, extreme
weather <https://www.nationalgeographic.com/science/2019/12/arctic/> |
National Geographic
UNH scientist one of ‘the world’s most influential researchers
<https://www.unionleader.com/news/education/web-of-science-group-names-unh-scientist-as-one-of/article_d83b9082-255c-5ab2-ac40-5dde1772571a.html>‘
| NH Union Leader
Papers of Interest

The most recent LTER-related papers <https://lternet.edu/bibliography/> are
available on the LTER Network web site and the full Network bibliography is
available at the LTER Network Zotero Group Library
<https://www.zotero.org/groups/2055673/lter_network/items>. Listed here is
just a small sampling of the 30-40 LTER related papers that are published
each month.

   - Experimental effects of elevated temperature and nitrogen deposition
   on high-elevation aquatic communities
   <https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007%2Fs00027-019-0678-4> |
   Aquatic Sciences
   - The life aquatic in high relief: shifts in the physical and biological
   characteristics of alpine lakes along an elevation gradient in the Rocky
   Mountains, USA
   <https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s00027-019-0684-6> | Aquatic
   Sciences
   - Evidence for phosphorus limitation in high-elevation unvegetated
   soils, Niwot Ridge, Colorado
   <https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007%2Fs10533-019-00624-y> |
   Biogeochemistry
   - Microbial spatial footprint as a driver of soil carbon stabilization
   <https://www.nature.com/articles/s41467-019-11057-4> | Nature
   Communications
   - popler: An r package for extraction and synthesis of population time
   series from the long‐term ecological research (LTER) network
   <https://besjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1111/2041-210X.13319?campaign=wolearlyview>
|
   Methods in Ecology and Evolution
   - Ant biodiversity and ecosystem services in bioenergy landscapes
   <https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0167880919303974?dgcid=coauthor>
|
   Agriculture, Ecosystems & Environment
   - Local‐regional similarity in drylands increases during multiyear wet
   and dry periods and in response to extreme events
   <https://esajournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/ecs2.2939> |
   Ecosphere
   - Diversity of cyanobacteria at the Alaska North Slope with description
   of two new genera: *Gibliniella* and *Shackletoniella*
   <https://academic.oup.com/femsec/advance-article/doi/10.1093/femsec/fiz189/5645229#.Xef2bCQEdIU.twitter>
|
   Microbiology Ecology
   - Biomass loss and change in species dominance shift stream community
   excretion stoichiometry during severe drought
   <https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/fwb.13433> | Freshwater
   Biology
   - Know your watershed and know your neighbor: Paths to supporting urban
   watershed conservation and restoration in Baltimore, MD and Phoenix, AZ
   <https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0169204619304013?dgcid=coauthor>
|
   Landscape and Urban Planning

Funding Opportunities

   - NSF’s LTER Site Renewal RFP
   <https://www.nsf.gov/publications/pub_summ.jsp?WT.z_pims_id=7671&ods_key=nsf19593>
is
   posted
   Due date: March 5, 2020
   - Growing Convergence Research (GCR)
   <https://www.nsf.gov/pubs/2019/nsf19551/nsf19551.htm>
   Full proposals due May 8  |  *Note from solicitation: “Proposers must
   make a convincing case that the research to be conducted is within NSF’s
   purview and cannot be supported by existing NSF programs and
   multidisciplinary initiatives. Proposals involving convergence in areas
   covered by existing programs and solicitations will be returned without
   review.”*
   - NSF Biology Integration Institutes (BII)
   <https://www.nsf.gov/pubs/2020/nsf20508/nsf20508.htm>
   Letters of Intent due December 20, 2019; full proposal due February 6,
   2020
   - Navigating the New Arctic (NNA)
   <https://www.nsf.gov/pubs/2020/nsf20514/nsf20514.htm>
   Full proposals due February 11, 2020
   - Understanding the Rules of Life: Microbiome Theory and Mechanisms
   <https://www.nsf.gov/pubs/2020/nsf20513/nsf20513.htm?WT.mc_id=USNSF_25&WT.mc_ev=click>
   Letters of intent due January 17, 2020; full proposals due March 2, 2020
   - Toolik Field Station TUNDRA Awards
   <https://toolik.alaska.edu/give/tundra.php> (Tundra Userdays for
   Naturally Developing Research Abilities). TUNDRA provides user-day support
   for early career researchers. Two yearly deadlines: March 15th and August
   15th
   - Research Coordination Networks in Undergraduate Biology Education
   (RCN-UBE) <https://nsf.gov/pubs/2018/nsf18510/nsf18510.htm>
   Full proposal: January 21, 2020
   - Improving Undergraduate STEM Education: Education and Human Resources
   <https://nsf.gov/funding/pgm_summ.jsp?pims_id=505082&org=NSF&sel_org=NSF&from=fund>
   Full proposal: February 4, 2020
   - Botany in Action (BIA) Fellowship program
   <https://www.phipps.conservatory.org/green-innovation/for-the-world/botany-in-action/call-for-proposals>
for
   PhD students
   - 2020 Katherine S. McCarter Graduate Student Policy Award
   <https://www.esa.org/public-policy/get-involved/esa-graduate-student-policy-award/>
   - Huyck Preserve 2020 Research Grants
   <https://www.huyckpreserve.org/huyck-research-grants.html>

Jobs and Fellowships

   - Ph.D. Assistantship in Hydrology and Biogeochemistry
   <https://hydro.vwrrc.vt.edu/2019/12/05/ph-d-assistantship-in-hydrology-and-biogeochemistry-virginia-tech/>
–
   Virginia Tech
   - Research opportunities in Disturbance Ecology
   <https://lternet.edu/opportunities/research-opportunities-in-disturbance-ecology/>
–
   Malone Lab
   - Graduate Assistantship in Forest Nutrient Cycling
   <https://lternet.edu/opportunities/graduate-assistantship-forest-nutrient-cycling/>
–
   Hubbard Brook and Bartlett Experimental Forest
   - Prescribed Burn Technician
   <https://lternet.edu/opportunities/prescribed-burn-technician/> – Cedar
   Creek LTER

Featured Research Experiences for Undergraduates (REUs)

   - The Future of Urban Ecosystem Services <https://t.co/FYOPeB86GR>
undergraduate
   research opportunity (UREx SRN)
   - Northeast U.S. Shelf Long-Term Ecological Research (NES-LTER) REUs
   <https://docs.google.com/document/d/1KU2SiNDBWhAmRO0CgSA3i3FC-1HNralYnvr9UeR_Qek/edit>
   - Harvard Forest REUs
   <https://harvardforest.fas.harvard.edu/other-tags/reu>
   - Luquillo Tropical Ecology REUs <https://www.ramirezlab.net/reu>
   - Carey Institute of Ecosystem Studies REU Program
   <https://www.caryinstitute.org/eco-inquiry/reu-program>
   - Sevilleta Field Station REU Program
   <https://sevilletareu.wordpress.com/>
   - Hubbard Brook LTER REUs
   <https://hubbardbrook.org/research-experience-undergraduates-reu>
   - Florida Coastal Everglades LTER REUs
   <https://inwe.fiu.edu/opportunities/coastal-ecosystems-reu-site/index.html>
   - Plum Island Ecosystems LTER REUs
   <https://lternet.edu/opportunities/research-experience-for-undergraduates-reu-pie-lter/>
   - Arctic LTER (Toolik Lake) REUs
   <https://lternet.edu/opportunities/research-experience-for-undergraduates-reu-arctic-lter-2/>
   - Northeast Shelf LTER REUs
   <https://lternet.edu/opportunities/research-experiences-for-undergraduates-at-nes-lter/>
   - Cedar Creek LTER – Summer and Fall Plant Community Ecology Internships
   <https://lternet.edu/opportunities/summer-and-fall-plant-community-ecology-internship/>

Promoting summer REU fellowships? Please capitalize on our video from the
2018 All Scientists’ Meeting: “How Undergrads Can Get Involved in LTER
Research <https://youtu.be/b1YSeoFbnMU>“

Committees and Interest Groups

*The following committees are actively seeking new members. Please reach
out to the designated contact people if you have interest. The listing of
active LTER committees and their membership
<https://lternet.edu/committees/> is always available on the LTER Network
website.*

Diversity Committee <https://lternet.edu/committees/diversity-committee/>:
Interested in helping develop a set of resources and best practices to
apply across the Network? Alan Berkowitz (berkowitza at caryinstitute.org)
co-chairs this committee.
Communications Committee
<https://lternet.edu/committees/communication-committee/>: Clarisse Hart (
hart3 at fas.harvard.edu) and Lina DiGregorio (lina.digregorio at oregonstate.edu)
chair this committee that is building a community of practice among LTER
communicators and investigators.

Happy Holidays to all! See you in 2020!

-- 
Marty Downs (she/her/hers)
Director, LTER Network Office



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