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director’s LETTER

From Observation to Understanding 

In her October letter, Executive Director Jeni Blacklock, PhD, reflects on what decades of watching reveal about a changing world.

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science & education STORIES

Eureka Moments at Mexican Cut


Howard Whiteman, PhD; Kelsey Reider, PhD; Hamish Greig, PhD; and Amanda Klemmer, PhD, share what years of study at the Mexican Cut Preserve have uncovered, from glowing salamanders to a caddisfly on the move.

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field NOTES

Butterflies, Serendipity, and Collaboration

RMBL researcher Carol Boggs, PhD, set out to study what attracts male Mormon fritillary butterflies. That work grew into a summer of high-speed video, hyperspectral photos, and a trade of hummingbird footage for butterfly images.


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alumni STORIES

How One RMBL Summer Can Shape a Future

Diane Thomson, PhD (far left, with red backpack straps, in 1992), spent just one undergraduate summer at RMBL. The lessons she took home about community and long-term data have shaped a career studying how ecosystems change.


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rmbl ANNOUNCEMENTS

RMBL Reads Ever wondered what a highway looks like to a mountain lion? Pull up a chair at 4:30 p.m. Wednesday, Oct. 28, at RMBL 365 (615 Teocalli Ave., Crested Butte), as environmental journalist Ben Goldfarb joins us virtually to talk about his book "Crossings: How Road Ecology Is Shaping the Future of Our Planet," which explores how roads affect wildlife and the people working to help animals cross them. John Hausdoerffer, PhD, RMBL's director of story, will lead the conversation. All are welcome!

science PUBLICATIONS

Recently published in Water Resources Research: Modeling a snow-covered shale hillslope in Colorado's East River watershed, Lucien Stolze, PhD, and colleagues found that spring snowmelt boosts rock weathering and that shale is a short-term carbon sink but, over long timescales, a net carbon source. Read now →

in other NEWS

RMBL principal research scientist Ian Breckheimer, PhD, spoke with SnowBrains about how Colorado's record-low snow year brought fall about six weeks early and why this winter will likely bring more snow than last. Read now →

Idaho State University News profiles associate professor Anna Grinath, PhD, who has spent the past two summers at RMBL studying how undergraduates grow as biologists while designing and carrying out their own research projects. The work is part of her NSF CAREER award on how students help shape science, from field stations to classrooms. Read now →

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