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

[Kristen Weiss]

October 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

We are happy to announce a special virtual training for the LTER
Community, *Improving
workplace climate: empowering individuals to become active bystanders*
<https://lternet.edu/stories/training-opportunity-bystander-intervention/>.
Have you ever witnessed harassment or hostile behavior but felt at a loss
about how to interrupt or intervene? Field research — especially in remote
locations — can create unique vulnerabilities. *Register*
<https://lternet.edu/stories/training-opportunity-bystander-intervention/> to
your LTER colleagues for an interactive training on safe and effective
approaches to intervention on *November 13, Noon-3 pm Pacific Time.*

The Ecological Forecasting Initiative’s Research Coordination Network
(EFI-RCN) is pleased to announce the launch of the inaugural NEON
Ecological Forecast Challenge
<https://ecoforecast.org/efi-rcn-forecast-challenges/>!  The challenge is
open to any individual or team and is asking participants to make
predictions for ecological data being collected by the National Ecological
Observatory Network (NEON). Participants may use any modeling approach
(statistical, process-based, machine learning, etc). There are a few
universities that are participating in the challenge as part of class
projects — if you’re interested in participating as a class let us know at
eco4cast.initiative at gmail.com.
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 Fall Meeting <https://www.agu.org/Fall-Meeting> of the American
   Geophysical Union is scheduled for December 7-11 2020, as a mainly virtual
   meeting with the theme “Shaping the Future of Science.”
   - LTER All Scientists' Meeting:  September 20-24 at Asilomar in
   Monterey, California (assuming reduced COVID restrictions)
   - Science Council Meeting: May 17-19, 2021 hosted by Central
   Arizona-Phoenix LTER

DEI Resources

*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. **Learn more at the DEI resources
<https://lternet.edu/network-organization/diversity-resources/> page.*

Need a little inspiration this month? Check out the winners of NSF’s STEM
Diversity and Inclusion Video Exhibition Challenge
<https://www.includesnetwork.org/blogs/nsf-includes-coordination-hub1/2020/10/06/innovative-stem-dive-video-series-showcases-creati>,
which highlights innovative programs intended to broaden participation in
STEM.

Also take some time to read this new publication in Eos, Raising Our Voices
for Diversity in the Geosciences
<https://eos.org/opinions/raising-our-voices-for-diversity-in-the-geosciences>,
which highlights what makes for successful DEI initiatives and why they are
important.

Grad Student Spotlight

This month we feature *Charles Scaife*, a 5th year PhD candidate at the
University of Virginia in the Department of Environmental Sciences as well
as a John A. Knauss Marine Policy Fellow with the US Department of Energy
in Washington, DC. His research has been primarily at the Coweeta
Hydrologic Laboratory and the Coweeta LTER. Read about Charles’ experience
<https://lternet.edu/stories/lter-graduate-student-spotlight-charles-scaife/>
as
a researcher and graduate student committee member in the LTER Network.
Around the Network

Researchers Jennifer Lau and Katy Heath from *Kellogg Biological Station
LTER *are part of a new $12.5M National Science Foundation (NSF) funded
project that will synthesize biological data across several disciplines
<https://lternet.edu/stories/kellogg-lter-biology-integration-institute/> to
study the role of symbioses in evolution and ecology as part of a Genomics
and Eco-evolution of Multi-scale Symbioses Biology Integration Institute
(GEMS BII).

*Kellogg Biological Station LTER* researchers are featured in a new video
<https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zs7A2c-NhXQ&feature=youtu.be> discussing
their work with prairie strips--sections of native prairie plants that lie
between agricultural crop plantings.

*Virginia Coast Reserve LTER* will feature a Virtual Art Exhibit called
‘Ghosts from the Coast’
<https://www.coastaleducation.virginia.edu/wp/?page_id=1389>beginning Nov
1, 2020. The Exhibit features work from 10 artists focused on coastal ghost
forests and the stories they tell about a changing climate and coastline.

*Virginia Coast Reserve LTER* is also featured in a new short film, Turning
the Tide <https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TpwmQJunf8w&feature=youtu.be>,
produced by Maryland Seagrant. The film describes research undertaken by
the Chesapeake Bay Sentinel Site Cooperative (CBSSC), a group of
ecosystem-based study sites across the Chesapeake Bay that work together to
measure the impacts of sea level rise in the Bay.

The USDA featured a Data Nugget on Experimental Forests and Rangelands
<https://www.usda.gov/media/blog/2020/10/08/experimental-forests-offer-one-kind-remote-learning-materials>
created
by *H.J. Andrews Experimental Forest LTER* on their website.

The *H.J. Andrews Experimental Forest LTER* Youtube channel released a video
<https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=grOs5gbyI_Q&feature=youtu.be> featuring a
walk along part of the north-facing slope in Watershed 1, shortly after the
Holiday Farm Fire burned the forest, to show the effect on the landscape.

*Santa Barbara Coastal LTER* just joined Twitter! You can follow them at
@LterSbc to keep up with SBC LTER research, publications, job
opportunities, and more.
Recent Press
>From the National Science Foundation

   - Scientists shed new light on role of viruses in coral bleaching
   <https://www.nsf.gov/discoveries/disc_summ.jsp?cntn_id=301467&org=NSF&from=news>
   - Seagrasses restored to Virginia bays are flourishing
   <https://www.nsf.gov/discoveries/disc_summ.jsp?cntn_id=301462&org=NSF&from=news>
   - Wildfires are changing forest communities in interior Alaska
   <https://www.nsf.gov/discoveries/disc_summ.jsp?cntn_id=301422>
   - New study reveals that soil is a significant carbon sequestration
   driver <https://www.nsf.gov/discoveries/disc_summ.jsp?cntn_id=301294>

Other media

   - Marine to Myrmecologist: One Entomologist’s Journey to Understand and
   Conserve Native Biodiversity
   <https://entomologytoday.org/2020/01/31/marine-myrmecologist-entomologist-journey-understand-conserve-native-biodiversity-jackson-helms/>
|
   Entomology Today
   - How planting 70 million eelgrass seeds led to an ecosystem’s rapid
   recovery
   <https://www.sciencenews.org/article/seagrass-restoration-project-virginia-ecosystem-rapid-recovery>
|
   ScienceNews
   - Some good news: Seagrass restored to Eastern Shore bays is flourishing
   <https://news.virginia.edu/content/some-good-news-seagrass-restored-eastern-shore-bays-flourishing?utm_source=DailyReport&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=news>
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   UVA Today
   - Q&A: Researchers Probe How Health of California's Kelp Forests Affects
   Other Systems
   <https://news.virginia.edu/content/qa-researchers-probe-how-health-californias-kelp-forests-affects-other-systems>
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   UVA Today
   - URI scientists investigate effects of marine heat wave on ocean life
   off southern New England
   <https://today.uri.edu/news/uri-scientists-investigate-effects-of-marine-heat-wave-on-ocean-life-off-southern-new-england/>
|
   URI Today

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 approach and initial forest response to a simulated ice
   storm experiment in a northern hardwood forest
   <https://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal.pone.0239619>
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   PLOS One
   - We cannot shrug off the shoulder seasons: addressing knowledge and
   data gaps in an Arctic headwater
   <https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.1088/1748-9326/ab9d3c> |
   Environmental Research Letters
   - Ranking the ecological effects of coastal armoring on mobile
   macroinvertebrates across intertidal zones on sandy beaches
   <https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0048969720361027?dgcid=coauthor#s0060>
|
   Science of the Total Environment
   - Restoration of seagrass habitat leads to rapid recovery of coastal
   ecosystem services
   <https://advances.sciencemag.org/content/6/41/eabc6434> | Science
   Advances
   - Increasing effects of chronic nutrient enrichment on plant diversity
   loss and ecosystem productivity over time
   <https://esajournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1002/ecy.3218> |
   Ecology
   - Micro‐scale geography of synchrony in a serpentine plant community
   <https://besjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/1365-2745.13503> |
   Journal of Ecology
   - GIS tool to predict photosynthetically active radiation in a Dry Valley
   <https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/antarctic-science/article/gis-tool-to-predict-photosynthetically-active-radiation-in-a-dry-valley/BD0BE4FF6A8F3DAAF32D698797287078>
|
   Antarctic Science
   - Growing-season warming and winter soil freeze/thaw cycles increase
   transpiration in a northern hardwood forest
   <https://esajournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1002/ecy.3173> |
   Ecology
   - Global impacts of fertilization and herbivore removal on soil net
   nitrogen mineralization are modulated by local climate and soil properties
   <https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1111/gcb.15308> | Global
   Change Biology

Funding & Training

   - NSF Sustainable Regional Systems Research Networks (SRS RNs)
   <https://www.nsf.gov/pubs/2020/nsf20611/nsf20611.htm?org=NSF>: The goal
   of this solicitation is to fund convergent research and education that will
   advance sustainable regional systems science, engineering, and education to
   facilitate the transformation of current regional systems to enhance
   sustainability. NSF will hold an informational webinar
   <https://nsf.zoomgov.com/webinar/register/WN_nh16JLVfQ3qzYtRqLlxA7g>
on* October
   27, 2020*, from 2:30-3:30 pm EST to discuss the SRS RNs solicitation and
   answer questions. A Q&A page
   <https://www.nsf.gov/pubs/2021/nsf21011/nsf21011.jsp?WT.mc_id=USNSF_25&WT.mc_ev=click>
is
   also available. *Full proposals due January 11, 2021*.
   - Cedar Creek Ecosystem Science Reserve is seeking proposal submissions
   to fund working groups
   <https://drive.google.com/file/d/15oqGh2nPHEq4XplmUTQwScN0uJyu4bLQ/view>
that
   will synthesize data from Cedar Creek and other LTER sites to address
   important, novel, & interesting ecological questions. *Proposals due
   December 1 2020*.
   - The National Center for Ecological Analysis and Synthesis (NCEAS) and
   DataOne are hosting a 5-day virtual short course, Reproducible Research
   Techniques for Synthesis
   <https://www.nceas.ucsb.edu/learning-hub/short-course>, on *November
   12-13, 16-18, 202*0. The workshop will help researchers acquire good
   data science skills to maximize their productivity, share their data with
   the scientific community effectively and efficiently, and benefit from the
   re-use of their data by others.
   - The Ecologic Institute, Migration in Harmony Research Coordination
   Network (MiH-RCN), and The Arctic Institute are seeking application
for the 2021
   Arctic Winter College
   <https://www.thearcticinstitute.org/call-applications-arctic-winter-college/>.
   The Arctic Winter College creates a network of emerging leaders and experts
   that will be brought together for 10 weeks in a series of web-based
   seminars (webinars) from *January through March, 2021*.
   - A new online Graduate Seminar, Research Data Management for
   Ecologists, will be held in *Spring 2021*. The course is oriented toward
   students interested in open science, and will cover topics such as data
   management plans, identifying data repositories, and effective data
   cleaning and formatting. Please contact Kristin Vanderbilt (
   krvander at fiu.edu) or Andrea Nocentini (j.a.nocentini at gmail.com) with
   questions about the course or registration.

Jobs & Fellowships

   - Southern California Regional Ecosystem Services Observation Network
   (RESON) Project Coordinator (Assistant-Associate Specialist)
   <https://lternet.edu/opportunities/southern-california-regional-ecosystem-services-observation-network-reson-project-coordinator-assistant-associate-specialist/>
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   UCSB Marine Science Institute & Santa Barbara Coastal LTER
   - Postdoctoral Research Associate in the Spatial Synchrony of Kelp
   Forest Ecosystems
   <https://lternet.edu/opportunities/postdoctoral-research-associate-in-the-spatial-synchrony-of-kelp-forest-ecosystems/>
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   University of Virginia/Santa Barbara Coastal LTER
   - USFS Soil Science Postdoctoral Fellowship
   <https://lternet.edu/opportunities/usfs-soil-science-postdoctoral-fellowship/>
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   Affiliated with Coweeta and Hubbard Brook LTERs
   - Postdoctoral Research Associate in Ecology and Evolution
   <https://lternet.edu/opportunities/postdoctoral-research-associate-in-ecology-and-evolution-michigan-state-university/>
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   Michigan State University/Kellogg Biological Station
   - Data Systems Analyst for California Coastal Ecosystem LTER and CalCOFI
   <https://lternet.edu/opportunities/data-systems-analyst-for-cce-lter-and-calcofi-uc-san-diego/>
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   UC San Diego
   - AAAS Mass Media Science & Engineering Fellowships
   <https://www.aaas.org/fellowships/mass-media/apply>
   - Dear Colleague Letter
   <https://www.nsf.gov/pubs/2020/nsf20131/nsf20131.jsp>: Division of Ocean
   Sciences' Postdoctoral Research Fellowship Opportunities for 2021 |
   National Science Foundation
   - McMurdo Dry Valleys LTER Research Experiences for Undergraduates (REU)
   Program <https://mcm.lternet.edu/reu> | Various institutions

Committees and Interest Groups

Feeling a little isolated under COVID19? It is only by drawing on the
energy and expertise of LTER participants that the Network can be relevant
to your needs. Visit the *LTER committees*
<https://lternet.edu/committees/> page
to learn what’s happening and how to get involved.
Tweets of the Month

We love seeing the creative art and science collaborations inspired by LTER
sites. This month we spotted artistic interpretations of two LTER forest
sites featured on Twitter. Keep the tweets coming and be sure to tag
@USLTER.
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