Twenty-eight research sites constitute the LTER Network at present
The geographic distribution of sites ranges from Alaska to Antarctica and from the Caribbean to French Polynesia. It includes agricultural lands, alpine tundra, barrier islands, coastal lagoons, cold and hot deserts, coral reefs, estuaries, forests, freshwater wetlands, grasslands, kelp forests, lakes, open ocean, savannas, streams and urban landscapes.
LTER Network announcements
- The LTER Network always puts in a strong showing at the Ecological Society of America Annual Meeting and 2026 is no exception. Please use and share our day-by-day list of LTER and related events to find your footing at this fun and approachable meeting. If you don’t see your talk or session listed below, please… […]
- Site exchanges are designed to facilitate between-site comparisons and support the development of cross-site projects. The 2026 awardees exemplify a variety of approaches to such collaboration, including: shared sampling efforts, development and dissemination of new methods, collaboration on shared best practices, and work toward joint publications. The post 2026 Site Exchanges Announced appeared first on […]
- Who doesn’t like getting postcards? Sign up to exchange postcards with someone at another LTER this summer! You’ll receive a postcard from a fellow scientist at another LTER, and send one of your own. This exchange is open to all and the form will remain open until July 10. The post Summer Network-wide Postcard Exchange […]
- This webinar will introduce the NSF-funded Decomposition Across Dtylands (DeAD)project, which combines field experiments, long-term observations, remote sensing and hierarchical modeling to better understand dryland decomposition across scales. The post ILTER Webinar: Resolving and scaling litter decomposition controls from leaf to landscape appeared first on LTER.
LTER events
- July 8, 2026 – 9:00 am-10:00 am (PT) | Are you a new graduate student, undergraduate, investigator, or staff member at an LTER site? After you get settled into your local site, join us to learn about the integrative science and opportunities that being part of a national network can open up. The LTER network […]
LTER news
- The LTER Network always puts in a strong showing at the Ecological Society of America Annual Meeting and 2026 is no exception. Please use and share our day-by-day list of LTER and related events to find your footing at this fun and approachable meeting. If you don’t see your talk or session listed below, please… […]
- Site exchanges are designed to facilitate between-site comparisons and support the development of cross-site projects. The 2026 awardees exemplify a variety of approaches to such collaboration, including: shared sampling efforts, development and dissemination of new methods, collaboration on shared best practices, and work toward joint publications. The post 2026 Site Exchanges Announced appeared first on […]
- Doctoral student Shirah Strock will travel from the Virginia Coast Reserve (VCR) LTER to the Santa Barbara Coastal (SBC) LTER. She will receive hands-on training in ViQi, an AI platform used to quantify sessile organism (algae, invertebrate) recruitment from long-term benthic imagery. The post Shirah Strock | Virginia Coast Reserve LTER to Santa Barbara Coastal […]
- Lin Hou, A PhD student at the California Current (CCE) LTER site, will visit the Northeast Shelf (NES) LTER to refine her Imaging Flow Cytobot (IFCB) analysis techniques, drawing on approaches used in the Sosik lab at Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution. The post Vivian (Lin) Hou | California Current LTER to Northeast Shelf LTER appeared […]
- Dr. Nicholas Medina will travel to the Minneapolis-St. Paul (MSP) LTER and sample soils for eDNA extraction and ITS sequencing. The results will complement MSP data on tree distribution, soil nutrients, heavy metals, and earthworms, while expanding Nicholas' work on the temporal dynamics of mycorrhizal fungal exploration traits. The post Dr. Nicholas Medina | Morton […]
- Brittany Washington, a PhD student with the Baltimore Ecosystem Study, will visit the two LTER urban sites: Central Arizona-Phoenix (CAP) LTER and Minneapolis-St. Paul (MSP) LTER to become familiar with groundwater connectivity and how it is assessed at these two very different LTER sites. The post Brittany Washington | Baltimore Ecosystem Study to Two Urban […]