Join our EBIO and Mountain Research Station team for our Winter Ecology field course.
This course fulfills EBIO 4000 level and lab requirements, and/or 4000 level ENVS Application
- Wintertime offers insights into the natural history of organisms & ecosystems not often appreciated during summer visits to the Rockies
- Join us in the mountains to study cold-season processes that shape alpine/subalpine ecological dynamics year-round
Instructors: Dr. Tim Kittel (INSTAAR) & Derek Sweeney (EBIO)
Dates & Times: 18 Jan – 4 March 2023
- Mountain Research Station – 6 weekends
- Times: Sat – 8:30a-5p & 7:30-8.30p, Sun – 8:30a-5p
- Boulder Main Campus – Lecture Weds 5-6p – 7 meetings
Topics:
- Climate
- Snowpack
- Vegetation dynamics
- Soil ecology
- Mammalogy
- Ornithology
- Limnology
Format: Field & lab exercises – Individual field project. Evening guest lectures
