[LTER-All-lter] LTER Network News | October 2019

Marty Downs downs at nceas.ucsb.edu
Fri Oct 18 06:01:11 PDT 2019 

October 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/documents/2019-lter-network-self-study/> is now
available on the LTER Network website. NSF is convening the review
committee, which will complete its work (likely including site visits) over
the next several months. Many thanks to all the hard working members
of the self
study committee
<https://lternet.edu/committees/40-year-self-study-committee/>!

Dave Garrison, long-time NSF Program Officer and Chair of the NSF LTER
working group is beginning his well-earned retirement. If you have photos,
quotes, and/or funny or poignant stories about Dave, please add them to
this google document
<https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/11SZhj7yLDO_uE8rXm1oG6IygP_oTTeaL?usp=sharing>
or pass them along to Marty Downs (downs at nceas.ucsb.edu) and we'll put a
package together, or send them direct to NSF program Officer Dan Thornhill (
dthornhi at nsf.gov).

The Powell Center Webinar series
<https://mailchi.mp/7f0c1f6b9703/powell-center-2019-fall-seminar-series-and-how-to-submit-a-proposal-webinar?e=020e3720ec>
kicks off October 21 with a talk by Dr. Melissa Kenney on "Predicting
Nature to improve environmental management: How close are we and how do we
get there?" On October 30, Center staff will present on "how to submit a
proposal to the John Wesley Powell Center for Analysis and Synthesis."
Preregistration is required.

The Fall Meeting of the American Geophysical Union
<https://www.agu.org/Fall-Meeting> is *December 9-13* in San Francisco.
Many LTER investigators will be presenting and the Network Office will
compile a listing of presentations. Please help us spread the word about
your talk, poster, or session, by sharing the link with us
<https://lternet.edu/stories/presenting-agu2019/>, including LTER in your
title or affiliation, and using the Network logo
<https://lternet.edu/graphic-resources/> on your title or acknowledgement
slide.

*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/>

   - A consortium of critical zone research organizations is planning a
   workshop at the 2019 American Geophysical Union Meeting: “Toward an
   International Critical Zone Network-of-Networks for the Next Generation
   through Shared Science, Tools, Data and Philosophy
   <https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=https-3A__nam01.safelinks.protection.outlook.com_-3Furl-3Dhttps-253A-252F-252Fsites.google.com-252Flbl.gov-252Fczonetwork-2Dof-2Dnetworks-2Dagu2019-252Fhome-26data-3D02-257C01-257Ctsw113-2540psu.edu-257C0feefd16ec824587a6f808d73b7b8df3-257C7cf48d453ddb4389a9c1c115526eb52e-257C0-257C1-257C637043274629227403-26sdata-3DKu3z15dDtpKaetuWcdlkqhk-252BJVcOGeFtPhEE1EXmMHI-253D-26reserved-3D0&d=DwMFaQ&c=c6MrceVCY5m5A_KAUkrdoA&r=i-t7bu_DSOi3KNxPpxUfUL9jt9cl0cQ9W84NQbiIFhw&m=ljAFwwMqT2s2Nv2dZSzXbABnj5HZH-sB48H0gCpNiY8&s=L4uVU8hnu9jWx-xIMrBAVINi0vlTDkmAwCl4Xmh4lYQ&e=>.”
   They are convening several webinar discussions
   <https://sites.google.com/lbl.gov/czonetwork-of-networks-agu2019/news-and-events?authuser=0#h.p_tR0yoJ2bWz3M>
   in advance. The first two, "An Overview of the Network of CZOs and their
   Watershed Equivalents" and "Instrumentation and User-Facilities -
   Applicability, Advantages and Limitations"  have passed. the third,
   Model-data integration" will be held in November and requires
   preregistration
   <https://docs.google.com/forms/d/11Dhr45dDSs0xscq5LmI0zm0IkujmrJwo9DPvOxJp6BI/viewform?edit_requested=true>
   .
   - The AGU Ocean Sciences Meeting
   <https://www2.agu.org/ocean-sciences-meeting/> is scheduled for *16-21
   February, 2020* in San Diego, CA. Abstract submissions are open until 11
   September, 2019. Heidi Sosik, who leads the Northeast Shelf LTER site will
   be keynoting.
   - The *2020 LTER Science Council Meeting* is scheduled for *May 5-7,
   2020* in Tempe Arizona.
   - The 8th global nitrogen conference (INI 2020) <https://ini2020.com/>
   will be held in Berlin, next *May 2020*. The original deadline for
   abstract submissions has been extended to the end of this October. This is
   a great opportunity to share research findings with the ILTER network and
   broader communities.
   - The deadline for proposals for Workshops
   <http://r20.rs6.net/tn.jsp?f=001rI7Xtzjydlkphy_B_AddY0rysLo7O8kxvMKwVOeVsj0R5q-yBWVIMbAfDWiUEksjcW9QW1Av1vqbdGcfKoo2NMAwkRjvx7Y7D9cgulYDljR67NvGwHld6sHDSGDq5yVqeLMYBv-1QqA8mznj-VvKE-OzB7hSHJazILE_OeTh7vs=&c=DXFMoerzDLfKBP-D08iDz_fau4zd4nWXvtALFqKZvb_8bNwVT-n49w==&ch=r7A8dAOCQV_b6RE5eEfNRCpli3GERnG4mqWOQFMouOuyuz2TRnKrug==>
   , Short Courses
   <http://r20.rs6.net/tn.jsp?f=001rI7Xtzjydlkphy_B_AddY0rysLo7O8kxvMKwVOeVsj0R5q-yBWVIMbAfDWiUEksjpUgkd-oG2YUOscS9aPWf_Z_s9dAPzHQRQbyXH4JWmV4Ln9r2UOVvEKNjASnq-DFupQuRtn_Ms5BLdvEJ-zH4D8DTMWPE9Ty6CqOd_qMDqB7ltThtZ0j8lw==&c=DXFMoerzDLfKBP-D08iDz_fau4zd4nWXvtALFqKZvb_8bNwVT-n49w==&ch=r7A8dAOCQV_b6RE5eEfNRCpli3GERnG4mqWOQFMouOuyuz2TRnKrug==>
   , Special Sessions
   <http://r20.rs6.net/tn.jsp?f=001rI7Xtzjydlkphy_B_AddY0rysLo7O8kxvMKwVOeVsj0R5q-yBWVIMbAfDWiUEksjrUl5Oal7BYL4-9Zpt3vhZnMMspGjMwbkALGvOPo0fG1g6Do7av-xEtFpKnoOeAm5XTTtV0qc-aRF2yCcJFeW7WElSIAkstvjFm_DNQrQynEAKFKUnMR-4Q==&c=DXFMoerzDLfKBP-D08iDz_fau4zd4nWXvtALFqKZvb_8bNwVT-n49w==&ch=r7A8dAOCQV_b6RE5eEfNRCpli3GERnG4mqWOQFMouOuyuz2TRnKrug==>,
   and Field Trips
   <http://r20.rs6.net/tn.jsp?f=001rI7Xtzjydlkphy_B_AddY0rysLo7O8kxvMKwVOeVsj0R5q-yBWVIMbAfDWiUEksj5-SKb_VNx7XSIqmB7iz2okkAq7vhuysJrUL7AqNWQNQv3--PkX62uAGaT8Pt6wp12iIhzIfnuM8HCbKcGTYKZ7ZGISP5YnR32fJRPfYJ4xI=&c=DXFMoerzDLfKBP-D08iDz_fau4zd4nWXvtALFqKZvb_8bNwVT-n49w==&ch=r7A8dAOCQV_b6RE5eEfNRCpli3GERnG4mqWOQFMouOuyuz2TRnKrug==>
   for the Ecological Society of America's 2020 Annual Meeting  is *November
   21, 2019 at 5 PM EST.*

*RECENT PRESS*
*>From the National Science Foundation*

   - Research provides new view of the critical role of plankton in marine
   carbon storage <https://nsf.gov/discoveries/disc_summ.jsp?cntn_id=299285>

*Other media*

   - Lake Mendota’s Muck
   <http://www.beachwoodreporter.com/people_places_things/lake_mendotas_muck.php>
   | The Beachwood Reporter
   - Baby sharks know when to run away from hurricanes
   <https://news.fiu.edu/2019/baby-sharks-know-when-to-run-away-from-hurricanes>
   | FIU News
   - USV Completes First Autonomous Circumnavigation of Antarctica
   <https://www.hydro-international.com/content/article/usv-completes-first-autonomous-circumnavigation-of-antarctica>
   | Hydro International
   - Coastal Futures Conservatory Merges Science, Arts, Humanities for
   Environment
   <https://news.virginia.edu/content/coastal-futures-conservatory-merges-science-arts-humanities-environment>
   | UVA Today
   - Preparing for the Future
   <https://www.news.ucsb.edu/2019/019646/preparing-future> | The Current
   - Shark Talks: Shark Ecologist Bradley Strickland
   <https://www.sharkophile.com/2019/09/24/shark-talks-shark-ecologist-bradley-strickland/>
   | Sharkophile
   - Here's What The New U.N. Report On Oceans And Ice Means For New England
   <https://www.wbur.org/earthwhile/2019/09/25/ipcc-oceans-ice-massachusetts-northeast-takeaways>
   |  WBUR Radio

*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.*

   - Stand dynamics and topographic setting influence changes in live tree
   biomass over a 34-year permanent plot record in a subalpine forest in the
   Colorado Front Range
   <https://www.nrcresearchpress.com/doi/abs/10.1139/cjfr-2019-0023?mobileUi=0#.XajfEZNKigQ>
   | Canadian Journal of Forest Research
   - Soil fungal community changes in response to long-term fire cessation
   and N fertilization in tallgrass prairie
   <https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S1754504818302538>
   | Fungal Ecology
   - Intensified inundation shifts a freshwater wetland from a CO2 sink to
   a source <https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1111/gcb.14718> |
   Global Change Biology
   - A combined grazing and fire management may reverse woody shrub
   encroachment in desert grasslands
   <https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s10980-019-00873-0> |
   Landscape Ecology
   - The landscape of soil carbon data: emerging questions, synergies and
   databases <https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1177/0309133319873309>
   | Progress in Physical Geography: Earth and Environment
   - Global change effects on plant communities are magnified by time and
   the number of global change factors imposed
   <https://www.pnas.org/content/116/36/17867> | PNAS
   - Nutrient retention and loss during ecosystem succession: revisiting a
   classic model
   <https://esajournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1002/ecy.2896>
   |  Ecology
   - ILTER – The International Long-Term Ecological Research Network as a
   Platform for Global Coastal and Ocean Observation
   <https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fmars.2019.00527/full>  |
   Frontiers in Marine Science

*AROUND THE NETWORK*

*Virginia Coast Reserve:* Long-time VCR/LTER Investigator Iris
Anderson has received
the 2019 Odum Lifetime Achievement Award
<https://www.vcrlter.virginia.edu/home2/?p=557> from the Coastal &
Estuarine Research Federation (CERF).

*Luquillo LTER* welcomes a new information manager, Miguel Leon, who joins
the LTER from the Luquillo CZO.

*Harvard Forest LTER* launches the New England Landscape Futures Explorer
<https://newenglandlandscapes.org/>, an interactive tool for exploring
different possible outcomes based on global trends and local decisions.

*Cedar Creek LTER.* Cheri Stockinger, an artist in residence at Cedar
Creek, is holding quilting classes at the Reserve and attracted more than
30 participants -- ages 6 to 89 -- to the October class.

*Bonanza Creek LTER.* Ecologist Terry Chapin will receive the Volvo
Environment Prize
<http://www.lter.uaf.edu/event_items/Volvo_Chapin_Release_2019-10-07.pdf>,
one of the world’s most prestigious environmental prizes. The prize
consists of a diploma, a glass sculpture and a cash sum of SEK 1.5 million
and will be presented at a ceremony in Stockholm on 7 November 2019. The
committee lauded Chapin's work: "Throughout his decades-long career in
ecosystems research and global change, Professor Terry Chapin has worked
tirelessly with people and for the planet. His work will have a
long-lasting impact on the ways we seek to build a sustainable future, with
the concept of Earth Stewardship supporting the deep institutional and
structural change required to meet the challenges ahead."

*FUNDING OPPORTUNITIES*

*LTER Synthesis Working Groups*

The 2019 LTER synthesis working groups application deadline is fast
approaching! Find *the RFP and new resources*
<https://lternet.edu/synthesis/request-for-proposals-2019/> for developing
collaborative proposals on the LTER Network website under “synthesis.”
Proposals due October 23.

*LTER Site Renewals & New Urban Site Opportunity: *NSF’s LTER Site Renewal
RFP
<https://www.nsf.gov/publications/pub_summ.jsp?WT.z_pims_id=7671&ods_key=nsf19593>
is now live. Due date: March 5, 2020. NSF has also released a new *Urban
Site solicitation*
<https://www.nsf.gov/pubs/2019/nsf19594/nsf19594.htm?org=NS>*.* Preliminary
Proposal due date: December 4, 2019: Full proposal: June 15, 2020.

NSF Postdoctoral Research Fellowships in Biology (PRFB)
<https://nsf.gov/funding/pgm_summ.jsp?pims_id=503622&org=NSF&sel_org=NSF&from=fund>:
Full proposal due November 19, 2019

NSF Ecology and Evolution of Infectious Diseases (EEID)
<https://nsf.gov/funding/pgm_summ.jsp?pims_id=5269&org=NSF&sel_org=NSF&from=fund>:
Full proposal due November 20, 2019

NSF Oceanographic Facilities and Equipment Support
<https://nsf.gov/funding/pgm_summ.jsp?pims_id=504848&org=NSF&sel_org=NSF&from=fund>:
Full proposal due December 16, 2019

NSF ADVANCE - Organizational Change for Gender Equity in STEM Academic
Professions  (ADVANCE)
<https://nsf.gov/funding/pgm_summ.jsp?pims_id=5383&org=NSF&sel_org=NSF&from=fund>:
Full proposal due January 15, 2019

*JOBS AND FELLOWSHIPS*

   - *Environmental Data Initiative Summer Fellowships
   <https://environmentaldatainitiative.org/edi-summer-fellowship-program/>.*
   Informational webinar: October 29; Apply by: December 13. This 2-month data
   management fellowship is intended for undergraduate, graduate and recent
   postgraduate students. Fellows will receive training from EDI staff and
   participate in data preparation and publishing with scientists and
   information managers at host research sites.
   - Interdisciplinary Cluster Hire in Freshwater Sustainability, UW
   Madision/NTL LTER
   <https://lternet.edu/opportunities/interdisciplinary-cluster-hire-in-freshwater-sustainability/>
   - Two Positions: Forest Ecosystems and Society, Oregon State University
   <https://lternet.edu/opportunities/opportunities-forest-ecosystems-society-osu/>
   - Tenure track position in forest ecology, West Virginia University
   <https://wvu.taleo.net/careersection/faculty/jobdetail.ftl?job=13196&lang=en>.
   The department is seeking an individual who can leverage “Big Data” (e.g.,
   NEON, FIA, NADP, ForestGEO, or AmeriFlux data) to link changes in tree
   species composition with the resulting impacts on forest ecosystem function.
   - Research Manager Positions – Luquillo Long-Term Ecological Research
   Program
   <https://lternet.edu/opportunities/research-manager-positions-luquillo-long-term-ecological-research-program/>
   - Three NSF-funded Ph.D. positions in grassland ecology, multiple LTERs
   <https://www.k-state.edu/ecophyslab/PhD_positions.html>
   - Harvard Forest Postdoc – Understanding the New England Land System
   <https://lternet.edu/opportunities/harvard-forest-postdoc-understanding-the-new-england-land-system/>
   - MS and PhD Research opportunities in the Malone Disturbance Ecology
   Lab, FCE LTER
   <https://lternet.edu/opportunities/ms-and-phd-research-opportunities-in-the-malone-disturbance-ecology-lab/>
   - Graduate positions (MS/PhD) in community ecology, resilience, and
   global change biology, Konza Prairie LTER
   <http://zaratajczak.wixsite.com/zak-ratajczak/bio>
   - Graduate Student Opportunities in ecosystem ecology, biogeochemistry,
   and ecohydrology; University of Alaska Fairbanks, Jones Ecosystem Lab,
   Bonanza Creek LTER
   <https://sites.google.com/alaska.edu/jeremyjones/graduate-student-opportunities?authuser=0>

*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*: 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*: 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.

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



https://lternet.edu
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