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Konza LTER featured in U.S. Department of Interior Museum photography exhibition
Posted By: tmcowiti on Thursday, July 03, 2008

The Konza Prairie Biological Station, home of the Konza Prairie Long Tern Ecological Research (LTER) site, is the subject of an upcoming photography exhibition by the U.S. Department of the Interior Museum in Washington, D.C.

Scientists expound on 'ecological connectivity'
Posted By: tmcowiti on Friday, June 06, 2008

‘Frontiers’ special issue highlights LTER work

Scientists have long suspected that the world’s ecosystems were interconnected in more ways than might appear at first glance. Now, a group of Long-Term Ecological Research (LTER) scientists and their non-LTER colleagues have taken an in-depth look at this very issue in a series of articles published in a special issue of the Ecological Society of America’s Frontiers in Ecology and the Environment, Issue 5, Volume 6 of June 2008.

LTER scientists help unveil role of streams and rivers in pollution control
Posted By: tmcowiti on Monday, March 17, 2008

The nation’s streams and rivers play a very important role in filtering out pollutants such as nitrogen and removing them from the ecosystem, researchers affiliated with the Long Term Ecological Research (LTER) Network and their collaborators have determined. Their conclusion stems from the Lotic Intersite Nitrogen eXperiment (LINX), a long term, NSF-funded study whose results were recently published in the scientific journal, Nature.

BES LTER major player in the Baltimore Watershed Conference
Posted By: tmcowiti on Thursday, March 06, 2008

The Baltimore Ecosystem Study (BES) Long Term Ecological Research (LTER) site provided the keynote address at the Baltimore Watershed Conference on March 1, 2008. The Conference celebrated the announcement of the Baltimore Watershed Agreement by Baltimore County Executive Jim Smith, and City of Baltimore Mayor Sheila Dixon. The two leaders confirmed their commitment to working jointly to improve the environmental quality and sustainability of these important land-water resources. They charged a blue ribbon Committee of Principals, representing the action agencies and community leaders in both the City and County, with recommending priorities to the two jurisdictional executive leaders for activities advancing each of the five goals for improving watershed sustainability in metropolitan Baltimore: 1) community greening, 2) development and restoration, 3) stormwater management, 4) trash as a contaminant, and 5) public health. For the text of the agreement and more on what each of these goals might encompass see http://resources.baltimorecountymd.gov/Documents/Environment/Watersheds/watershedgree06.pdf

NTL scientists report less winter ice on lakes, rivers, and ponds
Posted By: tmcowiti on Thursday, March 06, 2008

In a study funded by the National Science Foundation (NSF) and published in the September 2007 issue of the journal Limnology & Oceanography, North Temperate Lakes (NTL) LTER and University of Wisconsin at Madison researchers John Magnuson, Olaf Jensen and Barbara Benson reported that winter ice cover over lakes, rivers, and ponds in the region are lasting fewer and fewer days.