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

Fri Feb 21 07:00:00 PST 2020

February 2020

*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.ucsb.edu
<weiss at nceas.ucsb.edu>.*
Announcements

Openings for EDI Soil Harmonization Workshop (14-16 April, 2020):
Environmental Data Initiative (EDI) is planning a thematic data
harmonization workshop
<https://environmentaldatainitiative.org/webinars-events/edi-workshop-on-soils-harmonization/>
in
Santa Barbara, CA focused on soil data and their use in synthesis. There
are still a few openings for participants, who may be producers or
consumers of soil data. Please contact Margaret O’Brien (
margaret.obrien at ucsb.edu) for more information on what’s involved.

Upcoming EDI Webinars: February 25, 2020 at 2PM ET “Annotation in EML 2.2
<https://environmentaldatainitiative.org/webinars-events/annotation-in-eml-2-2/>”,
and April 7, 2020 at 2PM ET: EDI Q&A
<https://zoom.us/meeting/register/v5MocOmqrToiAFFk6aXQkg9gre_HkRR_aw>  —
Join EDI team members for this webinar with your questions and feedback on
everything EDI.

SACNAS is hosting a Grant Writing and Peer Review Workshop
<https://www.sacnas.org/professional-programs/> May 1-3, 2020 to equip
early career STEM professionals, in either biology or STEM education, to
write a successful grant proposal for NSF funding. Apply by Feb 21.

The Japan LTER Network will host two International summer courses for grad
students on Marine Biology and Ecology (Level 2
<https://hokkaidosummerinstitute.oia.hokudai.ac.jp/courses/CourseDetail=G058>
 and Level 3
<https://hokkaidosummerinstitute.oia.hokudai.ac.jp/courses/CourseDetail=G066>)
at Akkeshi JaLTER-Site in Hokkaido, Japan in July 2020. Applications due Feb
21 and April 3, respectively.

The *NCEAS Learning Hub* is now offering week-long trainings in
reproducible research techniques for synthesis
<https://www.nceas.ucsb.edu/learning-hub/short-course>. Learn to make your
data and analysis re-usable (by yourself and others). The next short course
is *May 11-15*.
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/>.*

LTER Science Council 2020 — Hosted by The Central-Arizona Phoenix LTER Site
May 4:  Executive Board and one Executive Board Liaison each from the
Information Management, Education and Outreach, and Diversity Committees.
May 5 & 6: All the above, plus one Lead PI and one designee per site
May 7 (morning): Lead PIs only
More info to come soon!

Ecological Society of America Annual Meeting <https://www.esa.org/saltlake/>
, August 2-7, 2020 in Salt Lake City. LTER will be well represented at ESA
this year with multiple LTER-focused symposia and talks, as well as an
evening mixer to celebrate 40 years of the LTER network. The LNO staff will
be on site and hope to see you there! More details to come.
Around the Network

The LTER LNO welcomes three graduate students from across the network to
our science writing team this month: Erin Winslow of Moorea Coral Reef
LTER, Tasha Griffin of Beaufort Lagoon Ecosystems LTER and McMurdo Dry
Valleys LTER, and Haley Dunleavy of Bonanza Creek LTER. Erin, Tasha, and
Haley will contribute stories for the LTER Road Trip story map and website
over the next year.

Congratulations to Monica G. Turner of North Temperate Lakes LTER for
receiving the Benjamin Franklin medal
<https://www.fi.edu/laureates/monica-turner> and becoming a Franklin
Institute Laureate for 2020. She received the honor for her contributions
to our understanding of how changes in large-scale patterns associated with
natural processes can affect not only ecological systems but also the
social and economic well-being of society.

Congratulations to Dr. Eve Hinckley of Niwot Ridge LTER for receiving the
NSF CAREER award for her research on the consequences of high sulfur inputs
into soils.

Kellogg Biological Station’s first ever artist in residence, Erin
Schneider, recently completed a set of poems
<https://lter.kbs.msu.edu/get-involved/artists-in-residence/erin-schneider/>
based
on her experience visiting the site and interacting with KBS researchers
last summer.

Luquillo LTER has a new research manager. Monique Picon, a graduate student
with Jess Zimmerman, has taken on the role. Congratulations and welcome,
Monique.
Recent Press
>From the National Science Foundation

   - Giant kelp gives Southern California marine ecosystems a strong
   foundation <https://www.nsf.gov/discoveries/disc_summ.jsp?cntn_id=299959>
   - Everglades ‘remembers’ severe weather
   <https://www.nsf.gov/discoveries/disc_summ.jsp?cntn_id=299983&org=NSF&from=news>

Other media

   - The Big (yet Hidden) Consequences of Antarctica’s Record Heat
   <https://www.wired.com/story/antarctica-record-heat/> | Wired
   - Why is this Antarctic Glacier “Bleeding?”
   <https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=085vQpDGZdw&feature=youtu.be> | PBS Nova
   - Hurricanes fertilize mangrove forests, shape coastal landscape of the
   Florida Everglades
   <https://news.fiu.edu/2020/hurricanes-fertilize-mangrove-forests,-shape-coastal-landscape-of-the-florida-everglades>
|
   FIU News
   - The chemists policing Earth’s atmosphere for rogue pollution
   <https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-020-00110-8?WT.ec_id=NATURE-20200123&utm_source=nature_etoc&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=20200123&sap-outbound-id=8986F83A407BC3051896B9846EE07B9D3FA88B22&mkt-key=005056B0331B1ED78393806F8C76F007>
|
   Nature
   - Protecting redundancy in the food web helps ensure ecological
   resilience
   <https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2020/02/200212131505.htm> |
   Science Daily
   - Bison on the Savanna
   <https://video.pioneer.org/video/bison-savanna-fjkwby/> | PBS
   - In Their Own Words: Diana Wall
   <https://academic.oup.com/bioscience/article-abstract/70/2/136/5733718> |
   Bioscience

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.*

   - Scaling‐up biodiversity‐ecosystem functioning research
   <https://doi.org/10.1111/ele.13456>  |  Ecology Letters
   - Long-Term Ecological Research and Evolving Frameworks of Disturbance
   Ecology
   <https://academic.oup.com/bioscience/advance-article/doi/10.1093/biosci/biz162/5714640>
|
   BioScience
   - Nutrient addition increases grassland sensitivity to droughts
   <https://esajournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1002/ecy.2981> |
   Ecology
   - Compounding the Disturbance: Family Forest Owner Reactions to Invasive
   Forest Insects
   <https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0921800919307104> |
   Ecological Economics
   - Effects of 10 yr of nitrogen and phosphorus fertilization on carbon
   and nutrient cycling in a tidal freshwater marsh
   <https://aslopubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1002/lno.11411> |
   Limnology And Oceanography
   - Know your watershed and know your neighbor: Paths to supporting urban
   watershed conservation and restoration in Baltimore, MD and Phoenix, AZ
   <https://www.fs.usda.gov/treesearch/pubs/59153> | Landscape And Urban
   Planning
   - Foundation species promote community stability by increasing diversity
   in a giant kelp forest
   <https://esajournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1002/ecy.2987> |
   Ecology

Funding Opportunities

   - Dear Colleague Letter: Developing New Research Collaborations Between
   Evolutionary Biologists and LTER Scientists
   <https://www.nsf.gov/pubs/2020/nsf20038/nsf20038.jsp#.Xi9i7fINnhU.twitter>.
   The NSF Division of Environmental Biology (DEB) aims to catalyze new
   collaborations that foster eco-evo research involving Long-Term Ecological
   Research (LTER) sites by soliciting proposals for conferences and workshops
   that lead to new research and collaborations between evolutionary
   biologists and current LTER scientists. Conference proposals can be
   submitted any time before April 1, 2021.
   - Dear Colleague Letter: IMAGiNE 2020: Organisms in a Dynamic Environment
   <https://www.nsf.gov/pubs/2020/nsf20044/nsf20044.jsp?WT.mc_id=USNSF_25&WT.mc_ev=click>.
   The Division of Integrative Organismal Systems (IOS) in the Directorate for
   Biological Sciences (BIO) of the National Science Foundation (NSF)
   encourages submission of proposals to core programs focused on integrated
   studies that will investigate how genomes, phenomes, and the environment
   interact to influence the development, expression and evolution of complex
   traits.
   - SESYNC Propose A Pursuit
   <https://www.sesync.org/opportunities/propose-a-pursuit>. The National
   Socio-Environmental Synthesis Center (SESYNC) invites proposals for
   collaborative team-based synthesis research (Pursuits) around emerging
   socio-environmental systems (SES) topics. Applications due March 30, 2020
   .
   - NSF Signals in the Soil (SitS) RFP
   <https://nsf.gov/funding/pgm_summ.jsp?pims_id=505752&org=NSF&sel_org=NSF&from=fund>
   : The SitS program encourages convergent research that transforms
   existing capabilities in understanding dynamic soil processes, including
   soil formation, through advances in sensor systems and modeling. Full
   proposal due May 30, 2020.

Jobs & Fellowships

   - Research Associate In Quantitative Ecology Of Kelp Forest Ecosystems
   <https://uva.wd1.myworkdayjobs.com/en-US/UVAJobs/job/Charlottesville-VA/Research-Associate-In-Quantitative-Ecology-Of-Kelp-Forest-Ecosystems_R0011498>
   | University of Virginia in collaboration with Santa Barbara Coastal LTER
   - Marine/Coastal Ecologist at The Ecosystems Center
   <https://lternet.edu/opportunities/mbl-marine-ecologist/> | Plum Island
   Ecosystems LTER, Marine Biological Laboratory
   - Lead/Asst. Lead Research Technicians
   <https://employment.marquette.edu/postings/12959> and Research
   Technicians <https://employment.marquette.edu/postings/12960> wanted –
   Old-growth forest dynamics | H.J. Andrews Experimental Forest LTER
   - Summer Field Assistants
   <https://recruiting.ultipro.com/MAR1033MBL/JobBoard/4c3007c3-6354-41de-a13f-d95be60d91e9/?q=&o=postedDateDesc>
|
   Arctic LTER, Marine Biological Laboratory
   - UREx SRN – Latin American International Research Experience (for
   undergrad and grad students) in Bogotá, Colombia
   <https://lternet.edu/opportunities/urex-srn-latin-american-international-research-experience/>
|
   Arizona State University

Featured Research Experiences for Undergraduates (REUs)

   - The Future of Urban Ecosystem Services <https://t.co/FYOPeB86GR>
undergraduate
   research opportunity (UREx SRN)
   - Luquillo Tropical Ecology REUs <https://www.ramirezlab.net/reu>
   - Arctic LTER REUs
   <https://recruiting.ultipro.com/MAR1033MBL/JobBoard/4c3007c3-6354-41de-a13f-d95be60d91e9/OpportunityDetail?opportunityId=253eb0c8-e1ba-455c-8423-c952d13bfae2>
   - Hubbard Brook LTER REUs
   <https://hubbardbrook.org/research-experience-undergraduates-reu>
   - Plum Island Ecosystems LTER REUs
   <https://lternet.edu/opportunities/research-experience-for-undergraduates-reu-pie-lter/>
   - Kellogg Biological Station REUs
   <http://www.kbs.msu.edu/education/undergraduate-program/research-experiences-for-undergraduates-reu/>
   - Cedar Creek LTER – Summer and Fall Plant Community Ecology Internships
   <https://lternet.edu/opportunities/summer-and-fall-plant-community-ecology-internship/>

Featured Twitter Pics
*A new section where we feature some of the eye-catching Tweets and photos
from around the LTER network over the past month. Thanks Tricia and Mike
for posting about your awesome LTER research! Be sure to tag us at @USLTER
for a chance to be featured in future newsletters.*
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