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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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…

word cloud of titles and project types for this year's Data Jam

Data Jam 2021-22 Jammin’ more than ever

120 students and 38 projects from grades 7 through 12 generated raps, a symphony, dancing scallops and wind and satellites, claymation, cupcake data points, board games, poems, comic strips, and puppet shows. Students used 13 different datasets from the provided Data Jam datasets and entertained 17 judges from the NES research team for days. While…

Model results of Scallop Scope for Growth, for Jan-Feb and Mar-Apr with color scale above

Scallop Balance- Modeling for Management

In the recent publication of Fisheries Oceanography, Zhengchen Zang et al. share their sea scallop scope for growth (SFG) model. Scallop energy dynamics depend on the spatial and seasonal variability on the Northeast US Shelf. The scallop SFG model is therefore driven by high-resolution hydrodynamic and biological models and provides key information about scallop growth…

NES LTER @NES_LTER ·

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Looking for Chl data? Just in: Sosik, Crockford, Peacock, Rynearson, Fontaine, Menden-Deuer, Marrec, & OOI CGSN. 2023. Size-fractionated Chl from water column bottle samples, NES-LTER Transect cruises, since 2017. @EDIgotdata @USLTER @NSF https://doi.org/10.6073/pasta/a8170b4f30fec183592ea7868d7bc1d4

NES LTER @NES_LTER ·

1 Sep 1697676179493319064

While you're grazing this weekend, check out: Menden-Deuer, S. and P. Marrec. 2023. Phytoplankton growth and microzooplankton grazing rates from NES-LTER transect cruises, ongoing since 2018. ver 2. Environmental Data Initiative. https://doi.org/10.6073/pasta/b3366e0d4206a401b415953ed3e60389. @USLTER @URIGSO @NSF

NES LTER @NES_LTER ·

24 Jul 1683482484091101188

Pointing out that we're reaching out to make our point at ESIP 2023 -- data is a great way for students to practice science! #datajam @USLTER @ESIPfed @NSF

NES LTER @NES_LTER ·

12 Jul 1679172139927105536

New paper from the shelf!
Catlett, D., Peacock, Crockford, Futrelle, Batchelder, Fowler, Gast, Zhang, Sosik. Temperature dependence of parasitoid infection and abundance of a diatom revealed by automated imaging and classification. @USLTER @NSF @WHOI

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.