Archive for September, 2012

Earlier spring in the Arctic

Tuesday, September 25th, 2012

There was a well reported story on NPR yesterday about recent trends in Arctic snow melt: Derksen and colleague Ross Brown have produced a study, which has been accepted for publication in Geophysical Research Letters, that documents a dramatic increase in the speed of this snowmelt. It turns out that in May and June, ...

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LTER meeting in Estes Park

Monday, September 10th, 2012

I arrived in Estes Park yesterday to attend the LTER (Long Term Ecological Research) network meeting this week. I like this meeting because there are a lot of ecosystem scientists that do work closely aligned with my interests. These are my people. I'm presenting the above poster on data from ...

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