2025 MSP LTER Overview Talks - Schoolyard LTER / Bell Museum
Presenter: Holly Menninger, Bell Museum
Summary:
Bell Museum Executive Director, Holly Menninger, discusses the museum's partnership with the MSP LTER in K-12 student engagement, educator professional development, and public outreach. In this video, she provides an update on this partnership and associated engagement efforts from the past year, and discusses ongoing and forthcoming work.
About the MSP LTER:
The Minneapolis-St. Paul Metropolitan Area Long-Term Ecological Research Program (MSP LTER) brings together over 100 researchers, students, artists, and community organizers from the University of Minnesota, University of St. Thomas, USDA Forest Service, and other local institutions to study how urban stressors affect the ecological structure and functioning of urban nature, including pollinators, urban forests, urban watersheds, and lakes and streams. Guided by the practice of community-engaged research, the MSP LTER partners with dozens of community and agency/government partners throughout the Twin Cities Metro Area to conduct its work.
To learn more, visit our website at mspurbanlter.umn.edu, or contact Sarah Hobbie (Director) at shobbie@umn.edu or Meredith Keller (Program Manager) at keller3135@umn.edu.