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IMAGE: The National Science Foundation is funding a new long-term ecological research (LTER) site in Minneapolis/St. Paul, Minnesota. The site is one of two urban LTERs in the nation. view more
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The USDA Forest Service is part of a partnership that will establish the first urban long-term ecosystem research (LTER) site in the Midwest. Funded by a $7.1 million grant from the National Science Foundation, the Minneapolis-Saint Paul (MSP) Long-Term Ecological Research Program will focus on the dynamics of urban nature and the urban social system in the face of rapid environmental and social change.
February 28, 2021 at 11:20am
The National Science Foundation is providing a four-year $4.75 million renewal of the FIU Institute of Environment’s Florida Coastal Everglades Long Term Ecological Research (FCE LTER) program.
This marks the fourth renewal since the program’s founding in 2000. For two decades, FIU researchers and their partners have collected data on water quality, plant and animal communities and ecosystem function from a network of research sites in Everglades National Park.
“The FCE LTER is invaluable to our understanding of how the Everglades is changing because it provides long-term data documenting changes that take place over years to decades,” said Evelyn Gaiser, the Endowed George Barley Eminent Scholars Chair and FIU biological sciences professor who has led the program since 2007.
Dr. Daniel B. Botkin, Professor Emeritus of Biology for UC Santa Barbara, previous Faculty for Yale University’s School of Forestry and Environmental Studies; Former Adjunct Professor at the.