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Northeast US Shelf LTER
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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
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
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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
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
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
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
September 29, 2025 at 5:30 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!
⬇️ 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
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...
September 15, 2025 at 6:58 PM
Hey, good idea! Calling all NES LTER photographers! The contest is on! ; )
September 4, 2025 at 3:56 PM
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 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
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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. ⬇️
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
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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
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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
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
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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
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
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
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
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
www.whoi.edu
April 22, 2025 at 3:27 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
April 11, 2025 at 3:55 PM
Are you a teacher? I'm sure you know a teacher. Do you like data? I'm sure you use data. See and share some inspiring youth creativity around data from the NES-LTER Data Jam. See the Winners' Ring. See the Teacher Resources. Encourage participation. sites.google.com/view/nes-lte...
Data Jam
Making data sing so everyone can dance and tell the stories. We believe that the skills of understanding, interpreting, and presenting data are essential in a world where our ability to collect data ...
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March 3, 2025 at 3:39 PM
When you can't bring K-12 students to your field site, you bring them the data! ABrickley, EO Coordinator at NES, recently presented at the DSE-K12 Conference with @dataspire.bsky.social about exploring data in different ways and the NES-LTER Data Jam. #dsek12 #dataishuman
February 25, 2025 at 5:49 PM
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Did you know the LTER maintains a thriving job board?

From REU positions to faculty hires, our sites have dozens of openings each year. Several just got posted!

You can check them all out here: lternet.edu/opportunities/
Opportunities Archive - LTER
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February 13, 2025 at 6:25 PM
From inside the lab on our recent winter transect cruise on RV Endeavor (@URI-GSO), T. Crockford captured a full-blown bongo net as it was deployed.
February 10, 2025 at 7:34 PM
Excited to be here. Excited to regrow our network!
February 10, 2025 at 7:26 PM