Research
Researchers in Nancy Emery's lab are investigating how alpine plants respond to climate change at Niwot Ridge. Anticipated funding cuts could threaten the long-term ecological records that make this research possible.
Researchers at the stable isotope lab just finished resampling more than a mile of ice from Greenland. Further analysis will probe unanswered questions about climate change, sea ice and Earth history.
The Maxwell/Hanrahan Foundation has pledged $75,000 to support student research at the Mountain Research Station. The donation will fund three years of research expenses and stipends for undergraduate and graduate students.
A team, led by INSTAAR Courtney Payne, used a powerful methodology to predict outcomes for life in the Arctic Ocean in the year 2100. Their results predict disrupted phytoplankton blooms, which will ripple throughout the ecosystem.
A new study from INSTAAR's Chris Ray and Jasmine Vidrio sounds the alarm for pikas in the Rocky Mountains. The paper provides the first empirical evidence for a theory long held by wildlife biologists — that pikas are struggling to adapt to warming temperatures.
Lauren Magliozzi has published a new analysis of an INSTAAR experiment conducted by Diane McKnight and Sabre Duren. The researchers characterized daily chemical fluctuations in wetlands downstream from an inactive Colorado mine.
Leaders from 26 countries and the European Union offered support for a new research and coordination network focused on the Ross Sea in Antarctica this week. INSTAAR fellow and Antarctic scientist Cassandra Brooks leads the steering committee for the NSF-funded network.
A team, led by INSTAAR scientist Will Wieder, received an NSF grant to study the role of microbes in shrub encroachment in the alpine tundra. The project will be based at Niwot Ridge.
Chris Ray has studied pika populations in the West for nearly four decades. Today, she is collaborating with PhD student Rachel Mae Billings on a project that could revolutionize the field.
Common dolphins in the Bay of Biscay aren't living as long as they were in the '90s, according to a new paper led by INSTAAR postoc Etienne Rouby. The study used a novel sampling method to update inaccurate estimates and propose solutions.