MSP LTER
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The Minneapolis-St. Paul Long Term Ecological Research site studies interactions between urban nature and people in the context of environmental and social change, to improve environmental outcomes for all residents.
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· Dec 19
🐝What's the buzz? Find out by perusing our Fall 2025 City Buzz Newsletter! Learn what our researchers & partners have been up to over the past few months through featured blog posts, updates from our Co-Directors, and site news & media mentions.
z.umn.edu/CityBuzzFall25
z.umn.edu/CityBuzzFall25
🐝What's the buzz? Find out by perusing our Fall 2025 City Buzz Newsletter! Learn what our researchers & partners have been up to over the past few months through featured blog posts, updates from our Co-Directors, and site news & media mentions.
z.umn.edu/CityBuzzFall25
z.umn.edu/CityBuzzFall25
December 19, 2025 at 7:54 PM
🐝What's the buzz? Find out by perusing our Fall 2025 City Buzz Newsletter! Learn what our researchers & partners have been up to over the past few months through featured blog posts, updates from our Co-Directors, and site news & media mentions.
z.umn.edu/CityBuzzFall25
z.umn.edu/CityBuzzFall25
A beautiful fall walk starts with open scientific data! 🌳🍂
A @startribune.com article used a publicly-available dataset built by MSP LTER researchers to map 340,000 trees across the #TwinCities in an effort to predict where to see the best fall color—and identify disparities in #treecanopy cover.
A @startribune.com article used a publicly-available dataset built by MSP LTER researchers to map 340,000 trees across the #TwinCities in an effort to predict where to see the best fall color—and identify disparities in #treecanopy cover.
The best fall color in the Twin Cities? We mapped 340,000 trees to find it
Minneapolis and St. Paul’s tree inventory shows where density and color collide.
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October 23, 2025 at 9:36 PM
A beautiful fall walk starts with open scientific data! 🌳🍂
A @startribune.com article used a publicly-available dataset built by MSP LTER researchers to map 340,000 trees across the #TwinCities in an effort to predict where to see the best fall color—and identify disparities in #treecanopy cover.
A @startribune.com article used a publicly-available dataset built by MSP LTER researchers to map 340,000 trees across the #TwinCities in an effort to predict where to see the best fall color—and identify disparities in #treecanopy cover.
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JOB ALERT! Do you also love large ecological experiments? Become coordinator of our big new geo-biosphere experiment in @terra-cluster.org. 7-year position! Follow link for details.
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Stellenangebote: Universität Hohenheim
Aktuelle Stellenangebote der Universität Hohenheim.
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October 6, 2025 at 4:09 PM
JOB ALERT! Do you also love large ecological experiments? Become coordinator of our big new geo-biosphere experiment in @terra-cluster.org. 7-year position! Follow link for details.
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Join University of Minnesota College of Biological Sciences (@umncbs.bsky.social) researchers & partners for an afternoon of learning and exploring in St. Paul's Pig's Eye Regional Park, on Saturday, October 25 from 1-4pm! For more information & to register, visit: z.umn.edu/Oct25PigsEye
October 9, 2025 at 6:07 PM
Join University of Minnesota College of Biological Sciences (@umncbs.bsky.social) researchers & partners for an afternoon of learning and exploring in St. Paul's Pig's Eye Regional Park, on Saturday, October 25 from 1-4pm! For more information & to register, visit: z.umn.edu/Oct25PigsEye
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"Useless" and/or "silly" federally-funded research has turned the United States into the world’s leader in science and technology over the past 75 years. Such science is under attack throughout the federally-funded agencies in the United States. More at: www.americanscientist.org/article/%E2%...
July 2, 2025 at 4:18 PM
"Useless" and/or "silly" federally-funded research has turned the United States into the world’s leader in science and technology over the past 75 years. Such science is under attack throughout the federally-funded agencies in the United States. More at: www.americanscientist.org/article/%E2%...
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🌽It's #MNStateFair time!
🌱Aug 23 & 28, we'll be at The Common Table in the SE Hall of the Ag Hort Bldg. Enter our prize drawing for 1 of 3 prize packages valued up to nearly $500!
🥘Aug 25, 11am, 1pm, 3pm, Team Cook Fresh will be doing cooking demos in the SE corner of the Eco Experience Bldg.
🌱Aug 23 & 28, we'll be at The Common Table in the SE Hall of the Ag Hort Bldg. Enter our prize drawing for 1 of 3 prize packages valued up to nearly $500!
🥘Aug 25, 11am, 1pm, 3pm, Team Cook Fresh will be doing cooking demos in the SE corner of the Eco Experience Bldg.
August 21, 2025 at 9:52 PM
🌽It's #MNStateFair time!
🌱Aug 23 & 28, we'll be at The Common Table in the SE Hall of the Ag Hort Bldg. Enter our prize drawing for 1 of 3 prize packages valued up to nearly $500!
🥘Aug 25, 11am, 1pm, 3pm, Team Cook Fresh will be doing cooking demos in the SE corner of the Eco Experience Bldg.
🌱Aug 23 & 28, we'll be at The Common Table in the SE Hall of the Ag Hort Bldg. Enter our prize drawing for 1 of 3 prize packages valued up to nearly $500!
🥘Aug 25, 11am, 1pm, 3pm, Team Cook Fresh will be doing cooking demos in the SE corner of the Eco Experience Bldg.
1/5 | Join us for informational gatherings about the Twin Cities Tree Stewardship Mapping Project! msp-lter.github.io/stewmap/even...
Friday, Aug 29, 8-9:30am at Rivoli Bluffs Farm
Saturday, Sept 6, 3-6pm at Bang Brewing
Thursday, Sept 18, 3-6pm at Eloise Butler Wildflower Garden
Friday, Aug 29, 8-9:30am at Rivoli Bluffs Farm
Saturday, Sept 6, 3-6pm at Bang Brewing
Thursday, Sept 18, 3-6pm at Eloise Butler Wildflower Garden
August 21, 2025 at 4:44 PM
1/5 | Join us for informational gatherings about the Twin Cities Tree Stewardship Mapping Project! msp-lter.github.io/stewmap/even...
Friday, Aug 29, 8-9:30am at Rivoli Bluffs Farm
Saturday, Sept 6, 3-6pm at Bang Brewing
Thursday, Sept 18, 3-6pm at Eloise Butler Wildflower Garden
Friday, Aug 29, 8-9:30am at Rivoli Bluffs Farm
Saturday, Sept 6, 3-6pm at Bang Brewing
Thursday, Sept 18, 3-6pm at Eloise Butler Wildflower Garden
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✨🍁Now Open! 🍁✨
The application for the Fall 2025 Young Voices of Science Program is now open through Friday, September 5th! Please share with your community!
Application Form: forms.gle/Q7PvvNWQowF9...
🔗No need to be a student to apply!
#science #sciencecommunication #scicomm
The application for the Fall 2025 Young Voices of Science Program is now open through Friday, September 5th! Please share with your community!
Application Form: forms.gle/Q7PvvNWQowF9...
🔗No need to be a student to apply!
#science #sciencecommunication #scicomm
August 19, 2025 at 2:35 PM
✨🍁Now Open! 🍁✨
The application for the Fall 2025 Young Voices of Science Program is now open through Friday, September 5th! Please share with your community!
Application Form: forms.gle/Q7PvvNWQowF9...
🔗No need to be a student to apply!
#science #sciencecommunication #scicomm
The application for the Fall 2025 Young Voices of Science Program is now open through Friday, September 5th! Please share with your community!
Application Form: forms.gle/Q7PvvNWQowF9...
🔗No need to be a student to apply!
#science #sciencecommunication #scicomm
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The publications collected in this month's LTER Network News really demonstrated the wide range of impactful research the LTER does. Here's the list:
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LTER Network News | July 2025
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July 31, 2025 at 6:32 PM
The publications collected in this month's LTER Network News really demonstrated the wide range of impactful research the LTER does. Here's the list:
mailchi.mp/lternet/lter...
mailchi.mp/lternet/lter...
Immerse yourself in MSP LTER urban ecological research at the Bell Museum's (@bellmuseum.bsky.social) Solution Studio, the award-winning makerspace where everyone is an ecologist! Learn more in today's #MinnesotaDaily article featuring our partnership w/ the Bell z.umn.edu/SolutionStudio25-News. 1/2
UMN Bell Museum provides summer space to connect and learn about ecological research
This summer, at the University of Minnesota’s Bell Museum, visitors have the opportunity to immerse themselves in hands-on scientific research through a dedicated summer exhibit the museum calls the S...
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July 28, 2025 at 4:38 PM
Immerse yourself in MSP LTER urban ecological research at the Bell Museum's (@bellmuseum.bsky.social) Solution Studio, the award-winning makerspace where everyone is an ecologist! Learn more in today's #MinnesotaDaily article featuring our partnership w/ the Bell z.umn.edu/SolutionStudio25-News. 1/2
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Really excited for this new round of synthesis groups. This one, especially, is the first to emerge from our new synthesis skills for early career researchers course.
Exciting news, our SPARC proposal has been funded! Our project brings together experts across disciplines and will explore above-belowground coupling/synchrony. Big thanks to @uslter.bsky.social! lternet.edu/stories/thre... 🌱🦠📉🌎
#LTER #SPARC #plants #microbes #SynthesisScience #TeamScience
#LTER #SPARC #plants #microbes #SynthesisScience #TeamScience
Three new SPARC Synthesis Groups demonstrate the value of long-term data collected across ecosystems - LTER
The LTER Network Office is excited to announce that three Scientific Peers Advancing Research Collaborations (SPARC) proposals were funded this year. The three groups will meet in person at the Nation...
lternet.edu
July 3, 2025 at 8:38 PM
Really excited for this new round of synthesis groups. This one, especially, is the first to emerge from our new synthesis skills for early career researchers course.
Last month, MSP LTER students, postdocs, staff, faculty, and other researchers gathered for our annual two-day Summer Symposium. In a break from our typical format, we gathered as a smaller group to reflect on where we have been and where we would like to go as an urban ecological research site. 1/4
July 16, 2025 at 7:49 PM
Last month, MSP LTER students, postdocs, staff, faculty, and other researchers gathered for our annual two-day Summer Symposium. In a break from our typical format, we gathered as a smaller group to reflect on where we have been and where we would like to go as an urban ecological research site. 1/4
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Attending the @ecologicalsociety.bsky.social #ESA2025 meeting in #Baltimore this summer? Join us for an #EcologicalDataSynthesis #Workshop on Sunday, August 10th! I'll be helping out, alongside folks from @uslter.bsky.social #NEON and #EDI. #Synthesis #TeamScience
June 24, 2025 at 10:40 PM
Attending the @ecologicalsociety.bsky.social #ESA2025 meeting in #Baltimore this summer? Join us for an #EcologicalDataSynthesis #Workshop on Sunday, August 10th! I'll be helping out, alongside folks from @uslter.bsky.social #NEON and #EDI. #Synthesis #TeamScience
@mprnews.org covered critical MSP LTER research being conducted by Co-Director Emilie Snell-Rood and postdoc Lindsey Kemmerling that explores the negative impact lead pollution has on the health of pollinators like butterflies #heavymetals #pollution #pollinators z.umn.edu/MPR-lead-butterflies
U of M study finds lead contamination threatens butterflies
University of Minnesota researchers say they’ve found a correlation between lead levels and smaller wing sizes, which could keep the pollinators from thriving.
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June 20, 2025 at 1:22 PM
@mprnews.org covered critical MSP LTER research being conducted by Co-Director Emilie Snell-Rood and postdoc Lindsey Kemmerling that explores the negative impact lead pollution has on the health of pollinators like butterflies #heavymetals #pollution #pollinators z.umn.edu/MPR-lead-butterflies
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Are you going to #ESA2025 and do you want free, continental-scale biodiversity data? Tools to access, quickly explore, and work with NEON and LTER datasets in your R environment? Check out our short course: events.rdmobile.com/Sessions/Det...
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@uslter.bsky.social @cyverse.bsky.social
SC 12 - Explore and Work with Continental-Scale Biodiversity Data Using the ecocomDP R Package: An Introduction to Analysis-Ready Data from NEON and the US LTER - Details
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June 11, 2025 at 2:46 PM
Are you going to #ESA2025 and do you want free, continental-scale biodiversity data? Tools to access, quickly explore, and work with NEON and LTER datasets in your R environment? Check out our short course: events.rdmobile.com/Sessions/Det...
@uslter.bsky.social @cyverse.bsky.social
@uslter.bsky.social @cyverse.bsky.social
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The MSP Tree Stewardship Mapping Project analyzes how groups collaborate and care for trees to identify opportunities for groups to coordinate more effectively and share resources. View the map and network to learn more!
sallydonovan.github.io/mspstewmap/
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sallydonovan.github.io/mspstewmap/
@msp-lter.bsky.social @uslter.bsky.social
May 15, 2025 at 11:32 PM
The MSP Tree Stewardship Mapping Project analyzes how groups collaborate and care for trees to identify opportunities for groups to coordinate more effectively and share resources. View the map and network to learn more!
sallydonovan.github.io/mspstewmap/
@msp-lter.bsky.social @uslter.bsky.social
sallydonovan.github.io/mspstewmap/
@msp-lter.bsky.social @uslter.bsky.social
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Check out today’s YouTube release, Why Do LTERs Matter to Natural Areas Practitioners?
Special thanks to the Bureau of Land Management, the USDA Forest Service, Esri, and @uslter.bsky.social.
Stay tuned! We're dropping new YouTube content every Friday at 11 a.m. ET.
Link in profile.
Special thanks to the Bureau of Land Management, the USDA Forest Service, Esri, and @uslter.bsky.social.
Stay tuned! We're dropping new YouTube content every Friday at 11 a.m. ET.
Link in profile.
May 2, 2025 at 3:04 PM
Check out today’s YouTube release, Why Do LTERs Matter to Natural Areas Practitioners?
Special thanks to the Bureau of Land Management, the USDA Forest Service, Esri, and @uslter.bsky.social.
Stay tuned! We're dropping new YouTube content every Friday at 11 a.m. ET.
Link in profile.
Special thanks to the Bureau of Land Management, the USDA Forest Service, Esri, and @uslter.bsky.social.
Stay tuned! We're dropping new YouTube content every Friday at 11 a.m. ET.
Link in profile.
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Four site exchange fellows were funded this year to travel to other LTER sites and learn skills. We're really excited to hear how these trips accelerate science across the network!
Site Exchange Fellows Announced - LTER
The LTER Network Office is pleased to announce that we will be able to fund four site exchange fellowships in 2025. Site exchanges were designed to facilitate between-site comparisons and support the ...
lternet.edu
April 28, 2025 at 9:18 PM
Four site exchange fellows were funded this year to travel to other LTER sites and learn skills. We're really excited to hear how these trips accelerate science across the network!
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We are looking for an Assistant Professor (tenure track) in the Department of Global and Public Health @mcgillspgh.bsky.social @healthsciences.mcgill.ca!
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We are looking for an Assistant Professor (tenure track) in the Department of Global and Public Health @mcgillspgh.bsky.social @healthsciences.mcgill.ca!
mcgill.wd3.myworkdayjobs.com/en-US/mcgill...
April 28, 2025 at 6:16 PM
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We are looking for an Assistant Professor (tenure track) in the Department of Global and Public Health @mcgillspgh.bsky.social @healthsciences.mcgill.ca!
mcgill.wd3.myworkdayjobs.com/en-US/mcgill...
We are looking for an Assistant Professor (tenure track) in the Department of Global and Public Health @mcgillspgh.bsky.social @healthsciences.mcgill.ca!
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Scientists and stakeholders must engage in broad collaborations and deep research to help ensure safe water supplies.
eos.org/agu-news/one...
Read more in our May issue, out now: bit.ly/Eos-May2025
eos.org/agu-news/one...
Read more in our May issue, out now: bit.ly/Eos-May2025
One Water, Many Solutions - Eos
Scientists and stakeholders must engage in broad collaborations and deep research to help ensure safe water supplies.
eos.org
April 24, 2025 at 1:04 PM
Scientists and stakeholders must engage in broad collaborations and deep research to help ensure safe water supplies.
eos.org/agu-news/one...
Read more in our May issue, out now: bit.ly/Eos-May2025
eos.org/agu-news/one...
Read more in our May issue, out now: bit.ly/Eos-May2025
TODAY (Friday, April 18): Our Community Engagement Learning Circle is at 12noon at the UMN St. Paul Student Center, Minnesota Commons Room (102). Engage with community leaders and researchers involved in community-engaged research! z.umn.edu/CELearningApr18
Students, faculty, community partners, and MSP LTER personnel: Please join us on April 18 for our first Community Engagement Learning Circle, to share stories with one another and reflect together on the challenges & joys of community-engaged research:
z.umn.edu/CELearningApr18
z.umn.edu/CELearningApr18
April 18, 2025 at 2:21 PM
TODAY (Friday, April 18): Our Community Engagement Learning Circle is at 12noon at the UMN St. Paul Student Center, Minnesota Commons Room (102). Engage with community leaders and researchers involved in community-engaged research! z.umn.edu/CELearningApr18
MSP LTER PhD candidate Katie Polik takes an innovative, whole-ecosystems approach to exploring the impact alum (aluminum sulfate) treatment has on #aquaticecosystems in urban environments, going beyond its impact on #phosphorus and #nitrogen cycling alone. z.umn.edu/MSPLakesAlum #watershedmanagement
MSP LTER | Investigating urban lakes
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April 17, 2025 at 2:45 PM
MSP LTER PhD candidate Katie Polik takes an innovative, whole-ecosystems approach to exploring the impact alum (aluminum sulfate) treatment has on #aquaticecosystems in urban environments, going beyond its impact on #phosphorus and #nitrogen cycling alone. z.umn.edu/MSPLakesAlum #watershedmanagement
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Work in coasts or estuaries?
Our friends at @cerfscience.bsky.social have an open call for abstracts for their 2025 meeting.
conference.cerf.science/cerf-call-fo...
Our friends at @cerfscience.bsky.social have an open call for abstracts for their 2025 meeting.
conference.cerf.science/cerf-call-fo...
2025 Call for Abstracts
conference.cerf.science
April 14, 2025 at 10:21 PM
Work in coasts or estuaries?
Our friends at @cerfscience.bsky.social have an open call for abstracts for their 2025 meeting.
conference.cerf.science/cerf-call-fo...
Our friends at @cerfscience.bsky.social have an open call for abstracts for their 2025 meeting.
conference.cerf.science/cerf-call-fo...
Students, faculty, community partners, and MSP LTER personnel: Please join us on April 18 for our first Community Engagement Learning Circle, to share stories with one another and reflect together on the challenges & joys of community-engaged research:
z.umn.edu/CELearningApr18
z.umn.edu/CELearningApr18
April 10, 2025 at 3:29 PM
Students, faculty, community partners, and MSP LTER personnel: Please join us on April 18 for our first Community Engagement Learning Circle, to share stories with one another and reflect together on the challenges & joys of community-engaged research:
z.umn.edu/CELearningApr18
z.umn.edu/CELearningApr18
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Teaching chemistry and want to dive deeper into plastics? In “Working to reduce the plastics problem,” students learn about research where Nick and a team of undergrads tested biodegradable elastomers. #DNOTW #edusky 🧪 datanuggets.org/working-to-r...
Working to reduce the plastics problem ‣ Data Nuggets
The activities are as follows: Teacher Guide Student activity, Level 3 PowerPoint of images Grading Rubric Plastics are materials that can be shaped easily and are used for many functions. This has ma...
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April 4, 2025 at 11:04 PM
Teaching chemistry and want to dive deeper into plastics? In “Working to reduce the plastics problem,” students learn about research where Nick and a team of undergrads tested biodegradable elastomers. #DNOTW #edusky 🧪 datanuggets.org/working-to-r...