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Collaboration Beyond the Jornada LTER: How Ocean Variation Creates Rodent Inflation

Although many experiments are conducted within the physical boundaries of the Jornada Basin, the Jornada’s influence is much wider reaching! The Jornada Basin LTER program is special because it relies on its own long-term data to inspire new studies–both within the Jornada Basin and across the globe-spanning LTER network. The resulting scientist collaborations and data […]

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Introducing… Cameron!

Featured / Madeleine Soss

Please welcome Cameron Duquette, our newest Jornada postdoctoral researcher! Originally from central Massachusetts, Cameron majored in Wildlife and Conservation Biology at the University of New Hampshire. He then continued his education at Oklahoma State University, where his master’s thesis focused on the effects of the oil and gas industry on Northern Bobwhite habitat selection. Most recently,

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Welcome Stephanie Bestelmeyer to the Executive Committee

Featured / Madeleine Soss

The Executive Committee of the Jornada LTER program would like to welcome Dr. Stephanie Bestelmeyer as its newest member. Holding a Ph.D. in Biology from Colorado State University as well as a B.S. in Biology and minor in Teaching from the University of California San Diego, Dr. Bestelmeyer has been working with the Asombro Institute

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Ecological insight through machine learning

Featured / Greg Maurer

In a new paper published in Methods in Ecology and Evolution, Jornada LTER scientists, led by Dr. Quiyan Yu, review salient methods in machine learning algorithms and evaluate their effect on successful ecological inference. A number of recommendations emerged, including the removal of spurious (correlated but not functionally important) variables from ML models, and the

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Desert Ecology Short-Course 2021

Featured / Nina Joffe

This year’s Jornada LTER Desert Ecology Short-Course took place as a hybrid (virtual and in-person) event from June 28-30, 2021 and was well-attended by graduate students and Jornada researchers. This year’s short-course included many exciting and informative sessions such as student presentations, investigator talks, field visits, data management workshops, and a data jam. Topics included

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