EN668 Summer Transect 2021 group photo courtesy G. Matthias (URI)

EN661 Winter Transect 2021 group photo courtesy E. Peacock (WHOI)

EN657 Fall Transect 2020 group photo by Lynne Butler (URI)

12 investigators
from 5 organizations

12 investigators
from 5 organizations

What is the NES-LTER?

The Northeast U.S. Shelf (NES) Long-Term Ecological Research (LTER) project integrates observations, experiments, and models to understand and predict how planktonic food webs are changing in the region, and how those changes may impact the productivity of higher trophic levels.

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Team members shared research under a tent.

Strolling Through Woods Hole

Brett, Joel (not pictured), Kate and her son hosted a tent as part of the Woods Hole Science Stroll to share about our work. Over 2000 visitors learned about forage fish, our transect line and seasonal work, and helped create a dataset quipu showing warming ocean temperature and how that affects fisheries species like lobsters.…

Former REU Publishes Research

S. Alejandra Castillo Cieza was an REU in Co-PI Rachel Stanley’s chemistry lab at Wellesley College in 2020 and 2021. It wasn’t just a pandemic pushing Alejandra to dig deeper into data analysis and lab work. She’s driven to unraveling data-driven stories and sharing them as she is now pursuing her PhD in Biology at…

Undergraduate students present research on the Northeast U.S. Shelf ecosystem

This summer the Northeast U.S. Shelf Long-Term Ecological Research (NES-LTER) project hosted three undergraduate researchers in Woods Hole. All three presented posters at Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution (WHOI)’s annual summer student poster symposium held on August 10, 2023. Victoria Abunaw, a rising senior in Earth and Atmospheric Sciences at Cornell University, participated in WHOI’s Summer…

Data Jam Creativity Continues into 2022-23

In our fifth consecutive year of Data Jamming as part of education and outreach for the Northeast US Shelf Long Term Ecological Research (NES-LTER) project, we are pleased to announce the winners! From 30 full Data Jam projects (116 students) and 6 Mini Jam projects (23 students), 3 high schools, and 2 middle schools– we commend…

ASM is where the LTER Network shines

Four years ago, when our team attended the LTER Network All Scientists’ Meeting (ASM), we were “newbies”, only a year into playing our role in this long term network of researchers. After an extra 1-year delay of the meeting, our team returned with more attendees, more connections, more posters, more workshops, and more appreciation. Our…

NES LTER @NES_LTER ·

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New data publication: Sosik, Crockford, & Peacock. 2024. Dissolved inorganic nutrients from the Martha's Vineyard Coastal Observatory (MVCO), including 4 macro-nutrients from water column bottle samples, since 2003 v5. https://doi.org/10.6073/pasta/a5a26fe8dd8ac113641869fe1376da4b… @EDIgotdata @NSF @WHOI @USLTER

NES LTER @NES_LTER ·

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The summer transect cruise was a great success and the Lancer miniboat was launched at the shelf edge for its 4th voyage! where will she go? @miniboats @USLTER @NSF @WHOI @URIGSO

NES LTER @NES_LTER ·

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Our summer cruise is underway! When collecting for a long term time series, you just can't miss a cruise. This took some work thru two ship cancellations, but we made it. Follow along on https://marineops.gso.uri.edu/EndeavorNow as we stitch our stations together. @NSF @USLTER @WHOI @URIGSO

NES LTER @NES_LTER ·

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And another updated data package:
Sosik, Crockford, & Peacock. 2024. Dissolved Organic Carbon (DOC) and Dissolved Total Nitrogen (DTN) from Northeast U.S. Shelf (NES-LTER) Transect cruises, ongoing since 2022 ver 2. @EDIgotdata @USLTER @NSF https://doi.org/10.6073/pasta/bb6ff075debb617f28571e2e212007a6

Data Portals

The NES-LTER produces observational data, derived data products, and model data. Observational data are obtained in real-time from moored underwater instruments, underway and from sampling on research cruises, and post-cruise with laboratory analyses.