Join us for exciting updates from the 2024 field season!
Our November meeting will feature a series of short talks by Principal and Senior Investigators.
Please email lternwt@colorado.edu for meeting location information.
Featured image: Niwot researchers installing sensor stations for the Tundra Warming Experiment, photo by Luke Wheeler.
Our December All-NWT Meeting will focus on the mid-term site review.
Please email lternwt@colorado.edu for meeting location information.
Featured image: Niwot researchers sampling plant, soil, and insects for the Tundra Warming Experiment, photo by Nancy Emery.
Niwot researcher Katya Jay will present her poster, “Quantifying Climate-Driven Woody Encroachment Rates across Alpine Tundra Ecosystems,” at the 2024 annual meeting of the American Geophysical Union (AGU24).
For more information about AGU24, including the meeting schedule, click here.
Featured image: Katya Jay in the field, photo by Stephanie Maltarich.
Please email lternwt@colorado.edu if there is a topic or issue that you would like discussed at our fall leadership meeting.
Please email lternwt@colorado.edu if there is a topic or issue that you would like discussed at our monthly staff meeting.
We will meet with Katie Jones from the National Science Foundation’s National Ecological Observatory Network to brainstorm ways to collaborate on topics of diversity, equity and inclusion and Indigenous data governance (IDGov).
Please email lternwt@colorado.edu if you would like to join us.
The Institute of Arctic and Alpine Research (INSTAAR) will host three talks on community-engaged research and K-12 education by Dr. Diane McKight, Dr. Holly Barnard, and Eric Parrish.
For more information on this event please visit the CU Events Calendar.
The Guild of Rocky Mountain Ecologists and Evolutionary Biologists (GREEBs) returns to the CU Mountain Research Station this September. As the aspen change colors, scientists will network, present talks and posters, and share ideas about ecology and evolutionary biology.
Fall in the Rocky Mountains. Photos by Anne Marie Panetta.
Presentation by Katie Ganon. August 17 at the MtnClim 2024 - Western Forestry and Conservation Association
We welcome the fall semester with a special visit and presentation by Dr. Haley Branch. Her visit kicks off our monthly community-wide meetings for all NWT LTER researchers, students, and staff.
Poster by Mia Ashby. August 8 at the 2023 ESA annual meeting in Long Beach, California
Program here
Presentation by Jon Henn. August 6 at the 2023 ESA annual meeting in Long Beach, California
Program here
Sunday, August 4, 1-4PM @ESA Annual Meeting.
Add course #13 to your registration (even if you’ve already registered)
Course website
Assembling and stewarding a team
Operational data synthesis
Accessible, useable and citable products
Presentation by Hannah Miller. July 22 at the International Conference on Mercury as a Global Pollutant conference in Cape Town, South Africa.
Programme here
The Niwot Ridge LTER is hosting a Wilderness First Aid Course on Thursday June 6th and Friday June 7th from 8am to 5am at SEEC room N128 on east campus.
Course cost is $270 per person, and you may pay with a University Speed type or by check.
Use this link for course registration!
We are offering a NOLS Wilderness Medicine curriculum. The certification is good for two years. Topics covered include patient assessment system, emergency and evacuation plans, spine injury, head injury, shock, wilderness wound management, musculoskeletal injury, heat illness, cold injury, lightning, altitude illness, medical patients, anaphylaxis.
More information about the class can be found here!
Monthly community-wide meeting of NWT LTER researchers.
Please email lternwt@colorado.edu for meeting location information.
As part of outreach and education on behalf of the Niwot Ridge Long Term Ecological Research program, CU Science Discovery’s Dr. Alex Rose turned students into scientists to observe, identify and record as many different organisms as possible at Crest View Elementary school. At the Crest View BioBlitz, 90 4th graders worked in small groups with researchers and naturalists from CU Boulder, Thorne Nature Experience, and Open Space and Mountain Parks. In only two hours on a chilly spring day, they found approximately 135 different organisms! Most importantly, everyone had a great time and couldn’t believe how many things they were able to find when they looked closely.
Our favorite quote of the day: "This was totally worth missing recess for!”
Monthly community-wide meeting of NWT LTER researchers.
Please email lternwt@colorado.edu for meeting location information.
March 27, 2024: Synthesis Skills for Early Career Researchers .
Group synthesis projects use and combine data from multiple sites, times, or approaches. They also build professional networks, expand your scientific perspective, and produce impactful science. But doing them well requires a particular combination of skills, including both technical and interpersonal skills. In the Fall of 2024, the LTER Network Office will begin offering a course for 27 LTER early career researchers that will include in-person and virtual components, a dozen instructional modules in key synthesis skills, and a small-group synthesis project. Join the March Community Call to learn about the course plan and opportunities to take part as a project science mentor or a participant..
Register here: https://lternet.edu/stories/lter-community-calls/
Monthly community-wide meeting of NWT LTER researchers.
Please email lternwt@colorado.edu for meeting location information.
February 28, 2024: Haley Branch, Postdoctoral Fellow, Yale University.
Dr. Haley Branch (postdoctoral fellow in Ecology and Evolutionary Biology at Yale University) will lead us through an NSF proposal she wrote to help promote fieldwork inclusivity for disabled researchers. Many disabled students do not consider a career in EEB because of the dominance of and emphasis that the field places on fieldwork. Additionally, there is little information available about accessible fieldwork options. Haley plans to help the LTER Network build a database that will provide students and researchers with information regarding the accessibility of the different LTER locations. This will include information about the site itself, available lodging, laboratory set up (if any), etc. The first aim is to survey the locations for current accessibility and the second is to suggest potential opportunities where access could be increased at various application levels.
Register here: https://lternet.edu/stories/lter-community-calls/
Monthly community-wide meeting of NWT LTER researchers.
Please email lternwt@colorado.edu for meeting location information.
January 24, 2024: Meet the LTER Network.
Our January call will be an orientation to the sites, science, and structure of the LTER Network as well as ways to connect with colleagues and get involved. It will be most appropriate for investigators, students, and staff who are new to the network, but all are welcome.
Register here: https://lternet.edu/stories/lter-community-calls/
Monthly community-wide meeting of NWT LTER researchers.
Please email lternwt@colorado.edu for meeting location information.
Please join us to honor Mark Williams through a celebration of his life and contributions to science, and our interconnected community. The event will take place at 3:30 pm on November 10, 2023, at the CASE Chancellor's Hall & Auditorium (4th Floor) at 1725 Euclid Ave in Boulder, Colorado. RSVP by emailing NWTField@colorado.edu. Please bring stories and memories of Mark and wear your Hawaiian shirts. We will have a gathering following the celebration of life at Upslope Brewing at 1898 S. Flatiron Court in Boulder at 5:30 pm.
To join remotely please join the zoom webinar link, it will be live from 3:45-4:45.
Please contribute photos to a slide show which will play during the Remembrance by adding to the google share.
If you are so moved, in lieu of flowers or gifts, a contribution to the gift fund to support research at the Mountain Research Station may be made in Mark's name. Donations can be mailed to:
Mountain Research Station
818 County Road 116
Nederland CO 80466.
Please make your check out to the 'University of Colorado' and be sure to put 'Mark Williams' in the memo line.
Please feel free to forward this event to others who may wish to attend.
Monthly community-wide meeting of NWT LTER researchers.
Please email lternwt@colorado.edu for meeting location information.
Open to all.
Please email lternwt@colorado.edu for meeting location information.
Field-Intensive Research Emphasizing Diversity UP in the alpine (Fired UP) is a field experience program for incoming EBIO graduate students at CU Boulder. You can learn more about the program here.
Dr. Marko Spasojevic, an Assistant Professor in the Department of Evolution, Ecology, and Organismal Biology at the University of California Riverside will be talking about: "A Functional Approach to Understanding Change in the Alpine".
This talk will be held in the Megaron at the CU Boulder Mountain Research Station. For more details on this and other talks happening at the MRS this summer click here.
Cal-Wood Forests & Fire Field Research Experience is a residential STEM field program for high school students. Participants explore a variety of STEM fields through studying the recent Cal-Wood and Marshall Fires. The course combines field science, outdoor recreation activities and restoration service projects.
For more information and to apply click here.
Image Credit: Alex Rose
Mandatory field orientation.
Monthly community-wide meeting of NWT LTER researchers.
Please email lternwt@colorado.edu for meeting location information.
