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New article on community composition and realized thermal niches of diatoms
NES-LTER PI Tatiana Rynearson, Sarah A. Flickinger, and graduate student Diana Fontaine just published a new article: “Metabarcoding Reveals Temporal Patterns of Community Composition and Realized Thermal Niches of Thalassiosira Spp. (Bacillariophyceae) from the Narragansett Bay Long-Term Plankton Time Series” (https://doi.org/10.3390/biology9010019).
Read More2019-20 Data Jam competition sees more students, new talents
In just its second year, the NES-LTER Data Jam saw nearly three times as many student entries and broadening the region of engagement. Education Outreach specialist, Annette Brickley, commented, “I think we’re reaching new teachers through the Massachusetts Marine Educators (MME) annual meeting each year in May, which is great, but I think our best…
Read MoreHeidi Sosik receives award for Rachel Carson Lecture at AGU Fall Meeting
We are pleased to announce that NES-LTER Lead PI Heidi Sosik will be presenting the Rachel Carson Lecture for the Ocean Sciences Section at the 2019 American Geophysical Union (AGU) Fall Meeting. Her talk is entitled “Observing Plankton in the 21st Century: Big Data and Big Surprises.” Heidi received this award as a scientist who…
Read MorePelagic fish data packages available online at EDI!
This fall Jaxine Wolfe joined us as an Information Systems Assistant to help publish NES-LTER data to the Environmental Data Initiative (EDI) repository. Her first two data packages are now available online, both prepared to accompany WHOI graduate student Justin Suca’s recent journal article. The data packages, for pelagic fish diet composition and stable isotopes,…
Read MoreILTER – The International Long-Term Ecological Research Network as a Platform for Global Coastal and Ocean Observation
Article in Frontiers in Marine Science, published 28 August 2019, with co-authors Heidi Sosik and Stace Beaulieu: https://doi.org/10.3389/fmars.2019.00527
Read MoreOur EDI Summer Fellow developed workflows to visualize and publish IFCB data products
In summer 2019 we had the wonderful opportunity to host Kathy Qi (see photo) as an Environmental Data Initiative (EDI) Fellow. The EDI Summer Fellowship program sponsors undergraduate, graduate, and recent postgraduate students at a variety of host institutions across the U.S. with training in ecological data management. Kathy is an undergraduate majoring in Marine…
Read MoreSampling neuston near NES-LTER Station L1
We kicked off summer 2019 with a unique opportunity to sample zooplankton at the surface near NES-LTER Station L1. Jaxine Wolfe, one of our summer REUs (Research Experiences for Undergraduates), joined other students as part of the Woods Hole Partnership Education Program (PEP) on a cruise on the Sea Education Association‘s research sailing vessel Corwith…
Read MoreAwards for the NES-LTER Schoolyard’s first Data Jam!
The winning team for the 1st Annual Northeast U.S. Ecosystems Data Jam Competition is from Fairhaven High School (Fairhaven, MA), for their Level 3 project titled, “A Flood and Nitrogen: The Perfect Recipe for an Algae Feast”. Honorable Mentions go to: Level 1 – a team from Our Sisters’ School (New Bedford, MA) for “The…
Read MoreA second successful Winter Transect cruise!
The NES-LTER Team just returned from the second successful Winter Transect cruise! The top photo shows PI Joel Llopiz happily displaying a sand lance, one of our target species of forage fish. Check the Twitter hashtag #NESLTER for another photo of Joel with an impressive sample resulting from towing a plankton net near the shelf…
Read MoreNES Newbies at the LTER All Scientists Meeting
NES-LTER team members from WHOI and URI participated in their first LTER Network All Scientists Meeting from Sep. 30 – Oct. 3. Highlights included a session with peers from other pelagic ocean LTER sites, including California Current Ecosystem (CCE), Northern Gulf of Alaska (NGA), and Palmer (PAL). Undergraduate Julia Cox received a student poster award!…
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