[LTER-All-lter] LTER Network News | June 2020
Kristen Weiss
weiss at nceas.ucsb.edu
Thu Jun 25 06:00:00 PDT 2020
June 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*
*The LTER Network Office has curated a list of anti-racism resources &
actions <https://lternet.edu/network-organization/diversity-resources/>
focused on ecology and academia. We hope this provides a jumping off point
for individuals, programs, and departments actively working to promote
diversity and inclusion in science. If you have resources to add, please
email dows at nceas.ucsb.edu <dows at nceas.ucsb.edu>. You can also read our full
statement
<https://lternet.edu/stories/message-from-the-lter-executive-board-on-recent-events/>
in support of racial equality in academia and beyond.*
*Diversity, Equity & Inclusion Resources of the Month*
*As the reinvigorated Diversity, Equity and Inclusion Committee
<https://lternet.edu/committees/diversity-committee/> expands network-wide
activities, we’ll be highlighting a new diversity resource in this space
each month.*
*The ADVANCEGeo partnership has curated a valuable list of resources
<https://serc.carleton.edu/advancegeo/resources/index.html> to help the
research community implement diversity and inclusion practices in the
field, lab, and virtual spaces. The site includes advice on drafting codes
of conduct, responding to hostile behaviors, recognizing bias, reporting
harassment, and more.*
*LTER Graduate Student Spotlight*
This month we feature a Q&A with Allison Swartz
<https://lternet.edu/stories/lter-graduate-student-spotlight-allison-swartz/>,
a grad student representative from H.J. Andrews Experimental forest who
studies the connection between forest canopy structure and aquatic
ecosystem processes. Be sure to also check out the latest submissions to
the LTER Grad Student blog <https://ssalter.blog/> and posts from grad
student takeovers on our LTER Instagram account
<https://www.instagram.com/lter_community/>.
*AROUND THE NETWORK*
*Congratulations to Andrew Myers of Kellogg Biological Station LTER, who
won this year’s Reviewers’ Choice first runner-up paper
<https://academic.oup.com/insect-science/pages/ee-and-jee-award-winners> in
the journal Environmental Entomology for the paper “Habitat Type Influences
Danaus plexippus (Lepidoptera: Nymphalidae) Oviposition and Egg Survival on
Asclepias syriaca (Gentianales: Apocynaceae)”.*
*Baltimore Ecosystem Study LTER’s Director’s Blog
<https://baltimoreecosystemstudy.org/balto-brief-v2/> features stories this
month from guest bloggers Dr. Charles Nilon and Dr. Ela-Sita Carpenter
about birding while Black in Baltimore. BES LTER also hosted a virtual Data
Jam
<https://baltimoreecosystemstudy.org/2020/06/19/congratulations-to-our-2020-data-jam-winners/>
with the theme Accessible Science.*
*Alaska Ocean Acidification Network recently interviewed Arley Muth
<https://aoos.org/alaska-ocean-acidification-network/scientist-interview-arley-hurley/>,
a Beaufort Lagoon Ecosystems LTER scientist working on the Boulder Patch
area east of Prudhoe Bay to study seasonal levels of pH among other
ecological questions. *
A new college-level lesson plan
<https://qubeshub.org/qubesresources/publications/1867/about?v=1> created
by Harvard Forest LTER Research Associate Meghan MacLean uses the New
England Landscape Futures Explorer too <https://newenglandlandscapes.org/>l
to help students explore the connections between land-use decisions and
land-cover change into the future.
*SAVE THE DATESLTER 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/> *
*This Friday, June 26th, the LTER Network Office is hosting our third
Virtual Career Panel webinar
<https://lternet.edu/stories/lter-virtual-career-panel-series/> featuring
panelists in science communication and outreach professions. We invite LTER
graduate and REU students and other early career researchers interested in
learning about careers outside of traditional academia to join!*
*Ecological Society of America 2020 Annual Meeting (Virtual)
<https://www.esa.org/saltlake/>, August 3-6, 2020. ESA’s meeting theme this
year is harnessing the ecological data revolution. Stay tuned for a list of
LTER sessions, presentations and other events connected to the meeting.*
*National Diversity in STEM Conference <https://www.2020sacnas.org/>,
October 22-24, 2020, hosted by the Society for Advancement of
Chicanos/Hispanics and Native Americans in Science (SACNAS). Student
research presentation applications
<http://www.2020sacnas.org/research-presentations/> due July 10, 2020.*
*The Fall Meeting <https://www.agu.org/Fall-Meeting> of the American
Geophysical Union is scheduled for December 7-11, 2020.as <http://2020.as>
a mainly virtual meeting. Abstract submissions
<https://www.agu.org/Fall-Meeting/2020/Present/Abstracts> are open June 22
- July 29, 2020.*
*RECENT PRESS*
>From the National Science Foundation
-
Ocean research in the time of COVID-19: Expedition to the Gulf of Alaska
keeps vital research and data collection on course
<https://beta.nsf.gov/science-matters/ocean-research-time-covid-19-expedition-gulf-alaska-keeps-vital-research-and-data>
-
Patterns in permafrost soils could help climate change models
<https://www.nsf.gov/discoveries/disc_summ.jsp?cntn_id=300756&org=NSF&from=news>
-
Small Arctic coastal waterbodies, with big carbon release
<https://www.nsf.gov/discoveries/disc_summ.jsp?cntn_id=300695&org=NSF&from=news>
Other media
-
Ground Control: How forests adapt to climate change
<https://harpers.org/archive/2020/06/ground-control-harvard-forest-massachusetts/>
| Harper’s Magazine
-
The ground is softening. Something is shifting in Antarctica’s McMurdo
Dry Valleys
<https://massivesci.com/articles/antarctica-dry-valley-melting-ozone-water-climate-change-science-friday/>
| Massive Science
-
Monarch research takes flight in a social distancing world
<https://www.canr.msu.edu/news/monarch-research-takes-flight-in-a-social-distancing-world>
| MSU College of Agriculture & Natural Resources News
-
'We have one Earth': Researchers Work To Boost Farm Production Without
Causing More Harm
<https://www.wvik.org/post/we-have-one-earth-researchers-work-boost-farm-production-without-causing-more-harm#stream/0>
| WVIK
-
Pandemic Disrupts Colorado-Based Research In Antarctica
<https://www.cpr.org/show-segment/pandemic-disrupts-colorado-based-research-in-antarctica/>
| Colorado Public Radio
-
Shorter, warmer winters, less snow. What next?
<https://thebulletin.org/2020/05/shorter-warmer-winters-less-snow-what-next-qa-with-biologist-pamela-templer/>
| Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists
-
Long-term Ecological Reflections: Art + Science at Bonanza Creek, Alaska
<https://www.terrain.org/2020/lter/bonanza-creek-alaska/> | Terrain
-
Mo'orea: Coral Reef Research in Paradise
<https://www.moorea.news.ucsb.edu/> | The Current
*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.
-
Accounting for Carbon Flux to Mycorrhizal Fungi May Resolve
Discrepancies in Forest Carbon Budgets
<https://doi.org/10.1007/s10021-019-00440-3> | Ecosystems
-
Microbial processing of plant remains is co‐limited by multiple
nutrients in global grasslands
<https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1111/gcb.15146> | Global
Change Biology
-
Strong mineralogic control of soil organic matter composition in
response to nutrient addition across diverse grassland sites
<https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0048969720313516> |
Science of the Total Environment
-
Decreased Soil Organic Matter in a Long‐Term Soil Warming Experiment
Lowers Soil Water Holding Capacity and Affects Soil Thermal and
Hydrological Buffering <https://doi.org/10.1029/2019JG005158> | JGR
Biogeoscience
-
Seepage Erosion in the Luquillo Mountains, Puerto Rico, Relict Landscapes
<https://agupubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1029/2019JF005341> |
JGR Earth Landscapes
-
LINX I and II: Lessons Learned and Emerging Questions
<https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fenvs.2019.00181/full>
| Frontiers
in Environmental Science
-
Growing-season length and soil microbes influence the performance of a
generalist bunchgrass beyond its current range
<https://esajournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1002/ecy.3095> |
Ecology
-
Lakes at Risk of Chloride Contamination
<https://pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/acs.est.9b07718> | Environmental
Science & Technology
-
Factors shaping alternate successional trajectories in burned black
spruce forests of Alaska
<https://esajournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1002/ecs2.3129>
| Ecosphere
-
Distribution of n-alkanes and their delta H-2 and delta C-13 values in
typical plants along a terrestrial-coastal-oceanic gradient
<https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0016703720303082>
| Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta
*JOBS, GRADUATE, AND UNDERGRADUATE OPPORTUNITIES*
-
Postdoctoral Research Position in ecological modelling
<https://hr.peoplesoft.nau.edu/psp/ph92prta/EMPLOYEE/HRMS/c/HRS_HRAM.HRS_APP_SCHJOB.GBL?FOCUS=Applicant&Siteid=1&FolderPath=PORTAL_ROOT_OBJECT.HC_HRS_CE_GBL2&IsFolder=false&IgnoreParamTempl=FolderPath%2cIsFolder>
(Job ID: 604696) | Northern Arizona University, with some work at
Sevilleta LTER
-
Graduate Student Position in population and community ecology
<http://www.louthanlab.com/join-the-lab.html> | Kansas State University
and Konza LTER
-
Postdoctoral Research Position in ecosystem science
<https://apply.interfolio.com/76582> | Arizona State University and
Jornada LTER
*FUNDING OPPORTUNITIES*
-
Faculty Early Career Development Program (CAREER)
<https://nsf.gov/funding/pgm_summ.jsp?pims_id=503214&org=NSF&sel_org=NSF&from=fund>.
Full proposal due: August 11, 2020
-
Coastlines and People Hubs for Research and Broadening Participation
(CoPe)
<https://nsf.gov/funding/pgm_summ.jsp?pims_id=505772&org=NSF&sel_org=NSF&from=fund>.
Letter of Intent due: August 10, 2020. Full Proposal due: September 9, 2020
-
Disaster Resilience Research Grants (DRRG)
<https://nsf.gov/funding/pgm_summ.jsp?pims_id=505790&org=NSF&sel_org=NSF&from=fund>.
Letter of Intent due: August 14, 2020. Full proposal due: September 15 2020
-
Biological Oceanography
<https://nsf.gov/funding/pgm_summ.jsp?pims_id=11696&org=NSF&sel_org=NSF&from=fund>,
Chemical Oceanography
<https://nsf.gov/funding/pgm_summ.jsp?pims_id=11698&org=NSF&sel_org=NSF&from=fund>
and Physical Oceanography
<https://nsf.gov/funding/pgm_summ.jsp?pims_id=12729&org=NSF&sel_org=NSF&from=fund>.
Full proposal due: August 17, 2020
-
Research Experiences for Undergraduates (REU)
<https://nsf.gov/funding/pgm_summ.jsp?pims_id=5517&org=NSF&sel_org=NSF&from=fund>.
Full proposal due: August 26, 2020
-
NSF Earth Sciences Postdoctoral Fellowships
<https://nsf.gov/funding/pgm_summ.jsp?pims_id=503144&org=NSF&sel_org=NSF&from=fund>.
Full proposal due: September 9, 2020
-
Science of Science: Discovery, Communication, and Impact
<https://nsf.gov/funding/pgm_summ.jsp?pims_id=505730&org=NSF&sel_org=NSF&from=fund>.
Full proposal due: September 9, 2020
-
ADVANCE: Organizational Change for Gender Equity in STEM Academic
Professions
<https://nsf.gov/funding/pgm_summ.jsp?pims_id=5383&org=NSF&sel_org=NSF&from=fund>.
Letter of Intent due: November 3, 2020
*TWITTER PICS OF THE MONTH*
This month, as some LTER researchers made their way back into the field,
lab, or just the outdoors, Jane Tucker and Eric Seabloom went the extra
mile in protection and style with their LTER face masks! Be sure to tag
@USLTER in your tweets for a chance to be featured in future newsletters.
[image: LTER Twitter Pics.png]
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