This month in Ecosphere, researchers from across the LTER network shared a collection of insights learned from 40-years of long-term research. The special feature, “Forecasting Earth’s Ecosystems with Long-Term Ecological Research”, includes papers that touch on themes of cascading effects, time lags, connectivity, state changes, and resilience. Several researchers from the Jornada, along with researchers

In a new piece in the journal BioScience (Yahdjian et al. 2021), ecologists with ties to the DroughtNet and LTER networks argue that coordinated distributed experiments, such as the DroughtNet International Drought Experiment and NutNet, should expand to cover more of the globe. Such experiments hold great promise for understanding ecosystem sensitivity to a range

The 2021-2022 Jornada LTER Graduate Fellowship recipients have been announced. This year, we were excited to add the Deb Peters Dryland Fellowship to our graduate research program. The Peters Fellowships are supported by New Mexico State University’s College of Agricultural, Consumer, and Environmental Sciences in recognition of Dr. Deb Peters’ long-term leadership of the LTER.

Nate Pierce will defend his PhD dissertation on May 17th at 2:00PM MDT/1:00PM PDT. Nate is a graduate student in the Archer Lab at University of Arizona and a former Jornada Basin Graduate Research Fellow. Please see the announcement below for details and Zoom link. Nate Pierce PhD Dissertation DefenseAdvisor: Dr. Steve ArcherCommittee Members: Dr. Mitch McClaran, Dr.