Our Team

University of California- Riverside

Leads the collection of pond environmental and macroinvertebrate data.

The Anderson Lab

University of Colorado- Boulder

Provides support for the design and collection of ecophysiological data.

The Barnard Lab

University of Colorado- Boulder

Supports the collection and interpretation of climate data and maintenance of instrumentation.

The Blanken Webpage

Colorado State University

Studies carbon cycling and hydrology to understand belowground responses to climate change.

The Cusack Lab

University of Colorado- Boulder

Contributes to analysis of long-term datasets and short-term experiments and education efforts.

The Dee Lab

Tulane University

Leads and supervises the collection of soil microbial data.

The Farrer Lab

University of Colorado- Boulder

Leads analyses to predict the temperature sensitivity of soil microorganisms.

The Fierer Lab

Colorado State University

Leads the collection and analysis of our forest permanent plot network.

The Hart Lab

University of Colorado- Boulder

Contributes to the design and analysis of our lake sampling program and runs aquatic mesocosm experiments.

The Johnson Lab

Montana State University

Leads eddy covariance data collection.

The Knowles Lab

University of Colorado- Boulder

Involved in modeling fine-scale hydrological dynamics across Niwot Ridge and the Green Lakes Valley.

The Livneh Webpage

University of Colorado- Boulder

Leads the collection and analysis of snow data and develops models of snow under climate change.

The Molotch Lab

U. S. Geological Survey; North Central Climate Adaptation Science Center

Contributes to plant demography research and facilitates partnership-building with local, state, and federal agencies.

The Oldfather Website

University of Colorado- Boulder

Leads the collection and analysis of water quality and physical longterm datasets for lakes.

The Oleksy Lab

Colorado State University

Leads work on stream biodiversity and ecology in the Green Lakes Valley.

The Preston Lab

University of Colorado- Boulder

Leads collection and analysis of American pika response to climate.

The Ray Webpage

University of Colorado- Boulder

Co-leads collection of pollinator datasets.

The Resasco Lab

University of Colorado- Boulder

Leads studies of biogeochemistry and microbiology in the cryobiosphere and studies biogeochemical and biodiversity under climate change.

The Schmidt Lab

University of Colorado- Boulder

Leads the collection of arthropod and pollinator species diversity data.

The Sconiers Webpage

University of Wyoming

Leads an experiment examining potential for range expansion of a subalpine plant into the alpine under global change scenarios and leads an analysis of global change impacts on plant community synchrony dynamics

The Shoemaker Lab

University of California- Riverside

Leads the collection and analysis of plant functional trait data for our trait database and our Tundra Warming Experiment. Also organizes efforts to broaden participation within the Niwot Ridge LTER, both in the field and in academic settings.

The Spasojevic Lab