This GitHub organization was built to house GitHub repositories that span more than one site as well as provide a home for the scripted workflows created by the synthesis working groups that the LTER Network Office funds. Some educational materials are hosted here as well like the Synthesis Skills for Early Career Researchers (SSECR) course and an ESA (2024) short course primer on synthesis science in ecology. The Information Manager community also hosts several repositories in this Organization.
All repositories beginning with lterwg- are created for the 'full' synthesis working groups (funded for 2 years of meetings by the LTER Network Office). Any repository beginning with lter-sparc- was created for one of the SPARC (Scientific Peers Advancing Research Collaborations) synthesis working groups for 1 meeting. Any repository beginning with ssecr- was created for a project team of LTER Synthesis Fellows as part of the SSECR course.
We also make extensive use of GitHub's "topics" to make repositories in this organization more easily-findable by thematic group. To find repositories in a given topic type the name of the topic you want to find into GitHub's search interface. If you're making a new repository please try to use existing topics before making new ones! Current topics include (in alphabetical order):
climhydro | documentation | education | eml-metadata | lter-imc | lter-science | lter-site-specific | scientific-computing | sparc-group | synthesis-working-group
There is also an inactive topic that we recommend adding to repositories without activity in the last 5 years (or so).
