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Download Luminous ID (version 2)! This mobile application software will increase your engagement in science by allowing you to quickly identify alpine plants in the field. The observations that you upload will provide long-term plant and geographical data useful to researchers at the Niwot Long-Term Ecological Research site studying the effects of climate change on species distributions and phenology (flowering events).
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As part of my postdoctoral work, I traveled to Qeqertarsuaq (Disko Island), Greenland (Inuit lands) to characterize plant communities across elevational gradients in detail. The resulting plant species, growth, soil and climate data will provide the foundation for constructing improved species distribution models, which in turn will allow us to better predict how Arctic plant communities will respond to climate change.
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My three-year field study in the Colorado Rocky Mountains examined the effects of anthropogenic disturbance on Colorado's iconic 14er peaks to provide a better understanding of how alpine plant communities will shift with ongoing global changes.
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It is the creativity from different genders, races, and ages that inspires innovation and ideas in scientific research, and not the suppression, in any form, of diversity. Only once pay equality is achieved across all disciplines and once the expertise of a woman is valued as much as that of a man, will the field of science fulfill its enormous potential.
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As climbers we are frequent visitors to many sensitive regions, such as alpine ecosystems, and thus we have the responsibility to understand the consequences of our actions. Human disturbance is a major factor along with climate change that contributes to global change, and we need to improve our understanding of how this affects vulnerable ecosystems. |
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I examined the impact of human disturbance and a changing climate on the geographic distribution of the alpine cushion plant moss campion in the Swiss Alps, while on a doctoral research fellowship at the Institute for Snow and Avalanche Research.
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Multiple flora and fauna were threatened in the ecological and cultural important Baker and Pascua rivers in Chilean Patagonia by a proposed and controversial hydroelectric megaproject, which was rejected by the Chilean government in 2014 due to pressures from international environmental activism efforts.
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