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Mountain Research Station: Winter Ecology

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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

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