The Jornada Basin LTER hosts a summer short course for its graduate students to orient them on the science that has been conducted at the Jornada, the science that is currently being conducted, and the emerging scientific questions that need to be researched in the future. This is also an opportunity for students to interact with other students and the PIs.
2014 Presentations
(July 8-9)
- Ecohydrology with Unmanned Aerial Vehicles, Enrique R. Vivoni
- Carbon Cycling in Changing Drylands, Heather Throop
- Habitat Structure, Animal Diversity, and Restoration, Bob Schooley
- Plant-Soil-Water Interactions of Desert Ecosystems, Mike Duniway
- Woody Plants in Grasslands: An Ecosystem Services Perspective, Steve Archer
- Your Data Management, John Anderson
2013 Presentations
(July 8-10)
- Introduction to LTER Data Management, John Anderson, - Scientific use of data; understanding data; data sharing and archiving; value of data sharing
- Alternative States, Brandon Bestelmeyer, - Complex adaptive systems, like an ecosystem, social system, or the Earth system, can have multiple equilibria; shifts can be gradual or abrupt and reversible or hard to reverse; shifts have large consequences for all the interlinked components
- Jornada Schoolyard LTER: Promoting Ecological Literacy in the Changing K-12 Classroom, Stephanie Bestelmeyer, - Kids average almost 53 hours per week with electronic media exposure; why care about science literacy
- Multi-Scale Monitoring of Plant Phenology - JER and Beyond, Dawn M. Browning, - Big picture: phenology research on the Jornada Experimental Range and the Jornada Basin LTER
- Soil-Geomorphology, Curtis Monger, Soil substrate-chemical and physical properties •Landscape connections-cross-scale feedbacks •Soil memory-legacy effects
- Ecosystem feedbacks Arising from Wind Transport in Drylands: Results from Field Experiments and Modeling, Gregory S. Okin, David Rachal, Debra Peters, Finn Pillsbury
- Spatial and Temporal Controls of Aboveground Net Primary Production, Osvaldo Sala - Productivity, water, space and time