Cross-site Science
NEON’s Mobile Deployment Platform: Seeking Input on a Community Resource
Poster Number: 73 Presenter/Primary Author: Mike SanClements We seek input from the LTER community on the National Ecological Observatory Network’s (NEON) PI and agency requestable Mobile Deployment Platform (MDP).
The Disappearing Cryosphere: Ecological and Biogeochemical Consequences. An LTER Network Cross-Site Initiative
Poster Number: 66 Presenter/Primary Author: Hugh Ducklow The cryosphere, that portion of the Earth’s surface where water is in solid form for at least a month a year, has been shrinking in response to climate warming. The areal extent and duration
Density fractionation and 13C reveal changes in soil carbon following woody encroachment in a desert ecosystem
Poster Number: 58 Presenter/Primary Author: Kate Lajtha Woody encroachment has dramatically changed land cover patterns in arid and semiarid systems (drylands) worldwide over the past 150 years.
Science in the time of Big Data: what happens when Google meets the Jornada LTER?
Poster Number: 48 Presenter/Primary Author: Debra Peters Big Data - large quantities of data of more types moving at faster rates – may be the greatest technological advance of the early 21st century.
The EcoTrends Project: long-term data provide ecological insights to scientists and non-scientists
Poster Number: 42 Presenter/Primary Author: Stacey Peters Environmental drivers are changing at local to global scales with corresponding effects on ecological dynamics. Large amounts of data have been collected to document these changes.