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Save the date for Mikaela Hoellrich’s MS defense seminar on July 9th at 10:00 AM (Mountain Time). Mikaela is a graduate student in the Pietrasiak Lab at New Mexico State University and a current Jornada Graduate Research Fellow. 

Save the date for Corey Nelson’s PhD defense on July 6th at 1:00 PM (NM)/12:00 PM (AZ). Corey is a graduate student in the Garcia-Pichel Lab at Arizona State University and a current Jornada Graduate Research Fellow.

Save the date for Tyler Turk’s MS defense on July 6th, 2021 at 9 AM (Mountain Time). Tyler is a graduate student in the Faist Lab at New Mexico State University and a current Jornada Graduate Research Fellow. 

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