Trout Lake Station highlights 100 years of research impact

The Ripple Effect - title over image of a small boat on a lake

Wisconsin Public Radio interviews Trout Lake Field Station Director Gretchen Gerrish in a new documentary highlighting local and global impacts of the research that has been conducted at the Trout Lake Station over the last 100 years of its operations. The National Science Foundation-funded Long Term Ecological Research Program has been an integral partner in… Read more »

LTER Photo Contest 2025

Introducing the LTER Photo Contest, 2025! Spurred on by the great images submitted last year and the fierce site vs. site competition that took place on our Instagram page to pick a winner, we’re back with a new theme!

A Day in the Life: Behind the Scenes on Sapelo Island

It is hard to put into words how exciting and simultaneously peaceful life is in this hidden corner of the world. The best we can hope to do is take you along for a regular day GCE LTER…make sure to slather yourself with sunscreen!

Fall 2025 Young Voices of Science Program

The Young Voices of Science program consists of a series of expert-led workshops, each designed to prepare and empower science scholars to share their knowledge, concerns, and hopes for the future with the wider world, and provide a launch pad for public engagement, early in their scientific careers.

LTER at ESA, 2025

LTER has an outsized presence at ESA, and this year is no different. See all the LTER talks here.

Morning in the Midnight Sun

Fairbanks, Alaska isn’t always the snow-covered tundra that most of us in the lower 48 would imagine. Eleanor Serocki covers a summer at the Bonanza Creek LTER.