Pierre and Rickie recently attended the NSF LTER All Scientists Meeting (ASM) in Pacific Grove, CA. During this conference-style meeting, they attended interactive discussion based workshops designed to synthesize knowledge and data from all LTER sites. Pierre and Rickie met people from all over the USA where they connected our study region, the North East US shelf, to diverse LTER environments all over the USA. We look forward to attending again the next time it is held in a few years!