Northeast US Shelf LTER
@nes-lter.bsky.social
The NES-LTER project integrates observations, experiments, and models to understand and predict how planktonic food webs are changing in the region, and how those changes may impact the productivity of higher trophic levels. Since 2017
Super interesting work by our Post-Doc, Lucas Medeiros: A Nonequilibrium Framework for Community Responses to Pulse Perturbations - Medeiros - 2026 - Ecology Letters - Wiley Online Library onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/... @whoi.edu @uslter.bsky.social #nsffunded
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January 20, 2026 at 3:12 PM
Super interesting work by our Post-Doc, Lucas Medeiros: A Nonequilibrium Framework for Community Responses to Pulse Perturbations - Medeiros - 2026 - Ecology Letters - Wiley Online Library onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/... @whoi.edu @uslter.bsky.social #nsffunded
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🧑🏽🔬🌊🤖 Hey undergrads! Get paid, hands-on experience in ocean science or engineering as a WHOI Summer Student Fellow! Applications are due on February 1—so start yours today!
📲Find program details and potential projects for summer 2026: whoi.edu/summerfellow
📲Find program details and potential projects for summer 2026: whoi.edu/summerfellow
January 15, 2026 at 10:59 PM
🧑🏽🔬🌊🤖 Hey undergrads! Get paid, hands-on experience in ocean science or engineering as a WHOI Summer Student Fellow! Applications are due on February 1—so start yours today!
📲Find program details and potential projects for summer 2026: whoi.edu/summerfellow
📲Find program details and potential projects for summer 2026: whoi.edu/summerfellow
Our winter transect cruise is underway on the RV Armstrong. Our team will spend 5 days stitching a line across the Northeast US Shelf sampling the winter ecosystem. Fair wind & seas with mild temps for the crew! @whoi.edu @urigso.bsky.social @wellesley.edu @smast @uslter.bsky.social Thank you #nsf
January 14, 2026 at 9:13 PM
Our winter transect cruise is underway on the RV Armstrong. Our team will spend 5 days stitching a line across the Northeast US Shelf sampling the winter ecosystem. Fair wind & seas with mild temps for the crew! @whoi.edu @urigso.bsky.social @wellesley.edu @smast @uslter.bsky.social Thank you #nsf
It's winter transect cruise time on the Northeast US Shelf and we're lucky to be heading out on the RV Neil Armstrong next week. Understanding the valuable ecosystem on the shelf and how it responds to change over the long term is such critical work. Funded by NSF. @uslter.bsky.social @whoi.edu
January 8, 2026 at 5:17 PM
It's winter transect cruise time on the Northeast US Shelf and we're lucky to be heading out on the RV Neil Armstrong next week. Understanding the valuable ecosystem on the shelf and how it responds to change over the long term is such critical work. Funded by NSF. @uslter.bsky.social @whoi.edu
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🎉 It’s been a big year for ocean science here at WHOI!
Celebrate with us! Check out what made the ocean world go round in 2025: whoi.edu/best-of-2025
Celebrate with us! Check out what made the ocean world go round in 2025: whoi.edu/best-of-2025
December 31, 2025 at 5:02 PM
🎉 It’s been a big year for ocean science here at WHOI!
Celebrate with us! Check out what made the ocean world go round in 2025: whoi.edu/best-of-2025
Celebrate with us! Check out what made the ocean world go round in 2025: whoi.edu/best-of-2025
When you invite a member of the @whoi.edu Comms group to come on a research cruise, you get great video interviews! Check out our latest NES-LTER Team Member Stories on our YouTube channel www.youtube.com/@nes-lter530... @uslter.bsky.social
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December 22, 2025 at 5:15 PM
When you invite a member of the @whoi.edu Comms group to come on a research cruise, you get great video interviews! Check out our latest NES-LTER Team Member Stories on our YouTube channel www.youtube.com/@nes-lter530... @uslter.bsky.social
Students participating in the NES-LTER Data Jam (sites.google.com/view/nes-lte...) are learning to think with data and make data moves AND communicate the story they see in the data. Thanks, Tim, for this great break down!
November 24, 2025 at 5:02 PM
Students participating in the NES-LTER Data Jam (sites.google.com/view/nes-lte...) are learning to think with data and make data moves AND communicate the story they see in the data. Thanks, Tim, for this great break down!
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🌉 🌊 The Bridge to Ocean Exploration (B2OE) program connects CCRI students with #URIGSO labs and NOAA OECI mentors, where they spend 6–8 hours a week working on ocean-science projects—everything from engineering long-deployment camera hardware to building data tools used by our researchers.
November 17, 2025 at 3:44 PM
🌉 🌊 The Bridge to Ocean Exploration (B2OE) program connects CCRI students with #URIGSO labs and NOAA OECI mentors, where they spend 6–8 hours a week working on ocean-science projects—everything from engineering long-deployment camera hardware to building data tools used by our researchers.
Check out "The Little Big Picture" in the latest issue of Oceanus magazine, in which Lead PI, Heidi Sosik, talks about the value of LONG TERM research. cloud.3dissue.com/2331/3058/67...
Oceanus
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October 27, 2025 at 2:57 PM
Check out "The Little Big Picture" in the latest issue of Oceanus magazine, in which Lead PI, Heidi Sosik, talks about the value of LONG TERM research. cloud.3dissue.com/2331/3058/67...
Following a great PR event @whoi.edu on Friday, our research team boarded the RV Armstrong for our fall transect cruise. When the weather is rough, go long first! #nsf @uslter.bsky.social @urigso.bsky.social @wellesley.edu #umassd Follow their work with the tracker: www.whoi.edu/what-we-do/e...
Where is the Neil Armstrong Now? - Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution
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October 20, 2025 at 4:00 PM
Following a great PR event @whoi.edu on Friday, our research team boarded the RV Armstrong for our fall transect cruise. When the weather is rough, go long first! #nsf @uslter.bsky.social @urigso.bsky.social @wellesley.edu #umassd Follow their work with the tracker: www.whoi.edu/what-we-do/e...
Our Lead PI, Heidi Sosik, talks about the importance of long term study in regions such as the Northeast US Shelf.
New England's famous fisheries rely on tiny but mighty plankton. 😋🎣
That's why scientists keep a close eye on the offshore food web that fuels the region's marine economy through the @nes-lter.bsky.social
📲 Find more reasons we need science—and science needs us: go.whoi.edu/together
That's why scientists keep a close eye on the offshore food web that fuels the region's marine economy through the @nes-lter.bsky.social
📲 Find more reasons we need science—and science needs us: go.whoi.edu/together
September 29, 2025 at 5:30 PM
Our Lead PI, Heidi Sosik, talks about the importance of long term study in regions such as the Northeast US Shelf.
Thank you to the #RVEndeavor crew for your service, from the shipboard to the maintenance, you served our project graciously. We will miss you!
⬇️ From the very beginning, #RVEndeavor was a first responder to urgent ocean challenges. Explore more from the first cruise and other milestones as #RVEndeavor wraps up its final cruise before retirement: buff.ly/VIhLhAH
R/V Endeavor
Celebrating nearly 50 years.
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September 19, 2025 at 5:23 PM
Thank you to the #RVEndeavor crew for your service, from the shipboard to the maintenance, you served our project graciously. We will miss you!
Learning to analyze, interpet, and manage data is an absolutely essential skill, not only in science, but across the board. Excited to see this resource for educator!
Join us Oct 8 @ 6pm ET for: Built by Educators, Researchers & YOU: K–12 Data Science Learning Progressions Unveiling our new website + resources designed to integrate #DataScience into every grade & subject.
🔗 Register: share.hsforms.com/1x05UsD83QLm...
🔗 Register: share.hsforms.com/1x05UsD83QLm...
September 15, 2025 at 6:58 PM
Learning to analyze, interpet, and manage data is an absolutely essential skill, not only in science, but across the board. Excited to see this resource for educator!
Hey, good idea! Calling all NES LTER photographers! The contest is on! ; )
Calling all KBS LTER photographers! Have some photos from your best day and worst day in the field? Submit them to the LTER Network's yearly photo contest!
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LTER Photo Contest 2025 - LTER
Introducing the LTER Photo Contest, 2025! Spurred on by the great images submitted last year and the fierce site vs. site competition that took place on our Instagram page to pick a winner, we're back...
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September 4, 2025 at 3:56 PM
Hey, good idea! Calling all NES LTER photographers! The contest is on! ; )
Our summer transect cruise has safely returned. Although, this "mixing event" would be interesting to survey...
Erin is expected to produce life-threatening surf and rip currents along the beaches of much of the east coast of the U.S. during the next several days. Beachgoers in those areas should follow advice from lifeguards, local authorities, and beach warning flags. weather.gov/safety/ripcurrent
August 20, 2025 at 3:37 PM
Our summer transect cruise has safely returned. Although, this "mixing event" would be interesting to survey...
Our summer transect cruise is on track! We can't wait to see all of the data and wave photos. Any unusual Hemiaulus blooms? Nice to get it all done before Erin "goes safely out to sea". #nsf @uslter.bsky.social @whoi.edu @urigso.bsky.social @wellesley.edu @noaa.gov
August 18, 2025 at 3:55 PM
Our summer transect cruise is on track! We can't wait to see all of the data and wave photos. Any unusual Hemiaulus blooms? Nice to get it all done before Erin "goes safely out to sea". #nsf @uslter.bsky.social @whoi.edu @urigso.bsky.social @wellesley.edu @noaa.gov
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🌊 Investing in ocean science positions the U.S. as a leader in resilience and national security. Scripps' Margaret Leinen joins @whoi.edu's @pdemenocal.bsky.social & retired Navy admiral John Richardson to advocate for funding @noaa.gov, NSF & US Navy Research.
Read the @washingtonpost.com Op-Ed. ⬇️
Read the @washingtonpost.com Op-Ed. ⬇️
Opinion | Why U.S. dominance at sea is shrinking
The U.S. still has an advantage on the waves, but ocean science needs more — not less — investment.
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July 21, 2025 at 7:23 PM
🌊 Investing in ocean science positions the U.S. as a leader in resilience and national security. Scripps' Margaret Leinen joins @whoi.edu's @pdemenocal.bsky.social & retired Navy admiral John Richardson to advocate for funding @noaa.gov, NSF & US Navy Research.
Read the @washingtonpost.com Op-Ed. ⬇️
Read the @washingtonpost.com Op-Ed. ⬇️
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🧪 The activity is now part of GSO’s Biological Oceanography Lab course (OCG561), helping train future researchers in "open, transparent, accessible, inclusive, and reproducible science."
July 18, 2025 at 5:30 PM
🧪 The activity is now part of GSO’s Biological Oceanography Lab course (OCG561), helping train future researchers in "open, transparent, accessible, inclusive, and reproducible science."
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Based on Amanda Herbst’s 2021 #SURFO project, the activity helps students become acquainted with key procedures in oceanographic data acquisition, processing, validation, and management using real NES-LTER data from six #RVEndeavor cruises.
🔗 Read the paper: buff.ly/tp4WLSj
🔗 Read the paper: buff.ly/tp4WLSj
Hands-On Post-Calibration of In Vivo Fluorescence Using Open Access Data: A Guided Journey from Fluorescence to Phytoplankton Biomass | Oceanography
View Issue TOC Volume 38, No. 2 Pages 73 - 82
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July 18, 2025 at 5:30 PM
Based on Amanda Herbst’s 2021 #SURFO project, the activity helps students become acquainted with key procedures in oceanographic data acquisition, processing, validation, and management using real NES-LTER data from six #RVEndeavor cruises.
🔗 Read the paper: buff.ly/tp4WLSj
🔗 Read the paper: buff.ly/tp4WLSj
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🌊 Recently published in Oceanography's Ocean Education section, this new hands-on activity co-authored by #URIGSO's Pierre Marrec and Susanne Menden-Deuer guides students through the process of turning raw fluorescence into reliable, post-calibrated chlorophyll a data using open-access resources. 🧪
July 18, 2025 at 5:30 PM
🌊 Recently published in Oceanography's Ocean Education section, this new hands-on activity co-authored by #URIGSO's Pierre Marrec and Susanne Menden-Deuer guides students through the process of turning raw fluorescence into reliable, post-calibrated chlorophyll a data using open-access resources. 🧪
Data Jam 2025 projects are in and they are fabulous! This year we had students Grade 5 - 12 sharing their work, practicing making sense of data and communicating the story they see. Students are creative and clever. @uslter.bsky.social @whoi.edu #nsffunded
June 6, 2025 at 6:30 PM
Data Jam 2025 projects are in and they are fabulous! This year we had students Grade 5 - 12 sharing their work, practicing making sense of data and communicating the story they see. Students are creative and clever. @uslter.bsky.social @whoi.edu #nsffunded
Tomorrow, EdOutreach Coordinator Brickley will be engaging members of the Massachusetts Marine Educators before the annual meeting with a favorite data and art all-in-one activity. If kids can do it, can the adults? @uslter.bsky.social @whoi.edu #nsffunded #mme
May 2, 2025 at 7:29 PM
Tomorrow, EdOutreach Coordinator Brickley will be engaging members of the Massachusetts Marine Educators before the annual meeting with a favorite data and art all-in-one activity. If kids can do it, can the adults? @uslter.bsky.social @whoi.edu #nsffunded #mme
Great fun creating a data viz, looking at plankton with Pierre, and tattooing small children with a food chain ; ) #partyfortheplanet @ButtonwoodParkZoo in New Bedford, MA @uslter.bsky.social @whoi.edu @urigso.bsky.social #nsffunded
April 29, 2025 at 2:24 PM
Great fun creating a data viz, looking at plankton with Pierre, and tattooing small children with a food chain ; ) #partyfortheplanet @ButtonwoodParkZoo in New Bedford, MA @uslter.bsky.social @whoi.edu @urigso.bsky.social #nsffunded
This week, our team heads out on the spring transect cruise. While spring is blooming all around you, what's blooming out on the Northeast US Shelf? Follow along! www.whoi.edu/what-we-do/e... @uslter.bsky.social Funded by NSF @whoi.edu @urigso.bsky.social @wellesley.edu @umassdartmouth
Where is the Neil Armstrong Now? - Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution
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April 22, 2025 at 3:27 PM
This week, our team heads out on the spring transect cruise. While spring is blooming all around you, what's blooming out on the Northeast US Shelf? Follow along! www.whoi.edu/what-we-do/e... @uslter.bsky.social Funded by NSF @whoi.edu @urigso.bsky.social @wellesley.edu @umassdartmouth
Last week, IM Mgr Kate and EO Mgr Annette visited a Morse Pond School g.5 classroom to talk about food webs and how we learn about them on the Northeast US Shelf. Who knew our Conceptual Model would be so useful with 5th graders?! @uslter.bsky.social #nsffunded
April 11, 2025 at 3:55 PM
Last week, IM Mgr Kate and EO Mgr Annette visited a Morse Pond School g.5 classroom to talk about food webs and how we learn about them on the Northeast US Shelf. Who knew our Conceptual Model would be so useful with 5th graders?! @uslter.bsky.social #nsffunded