Welcome to the LTER Community!

Although each of the sites and roles are a bit different, overall, the LTER Network is a truly congenial, helpful, and welcoming community. These pages are intended to help you find your way around our various communication channels in your first weeks and months.

For resources specific to information management (IM), please see the new to LTER information management page.

Get Connected:

LTER Network Website: Take some time with the LTER Network Website, which has a wealth of information about the structure and history of the Network and sites.
LTER mailing lists: Each LTER committee has an email discussion list, maintained on Google Groups. For information managers, the posting address is “im@lternet.edu”. Subscribe to the Information Managers email list for updates and discussion of all things related to information management in the LTER Network.
LTER Community Forum Create an account on the LTER Community Forum at https://lternet.discourse.group/. Login and create account buttons are available at the top right and a forum account can be linked to Google or GitHub accounts for ease in logging in. Membership is open to the entire LTER and LTER-interested community. Use it to ask questions and share resources on topics narrow or broad. Fine-tune your audience with categories and keywords.
LTER Newsletters: Sign up for the LTER Newsletters, including the monthly LTER Network News, a monthly LTER jobs newsletter, and DataBits, a bi-annual newsletter for all things IM.
LTER Slack: Sign up for the LTER Slack channel at https://slack.lternet.edu. If you are new to Slack, review the quick start guide.

Get Connected:

Social Media