Winter snowpack

article

Seasonality and albedo dependence of cloud radiative forcing in the Upper Colorado River Basin

2025Journal of Geophysical Research: Atmospheres

article

The short life of upvalley wind in a high-altitude valley in the Colorado Rocky Mountains

2025Journal of Geophysical Research: Atmospheres

article

Hidden features: How subsurface and landscape heterogeneity govern hydrologic connectivity and stream chemistry in a montane watershed

2025Hydrological Processes

article

Cold-season precipitation sensitivity to microphysical parameterizations: hydrologic evaluations leveraging snow lidar datasets

2024Journal of Hydrometeorology

article

Hydrological control of rock carbon fluxes from shale weathering

2024Nature Water

article

Spatially distributed snow depth, bulk density, and snow water equivalent from ground-based and airborne sensor integration at Grand Mesa, Colorado, USA

2024The Cryosphere

thesis

Forest composition and structural controls on canopy snow interception in a Colorado watershed

2024

article

Declining groundwater storage expected to amplify mountain streamflow reductions in a warmer world

2024Nature Water

article

Recent Upper Colorado River Streamflow Declines Driven by Loss of Spring Precipitation

2024Geophysical Research Letters

student_paper

Effects of warming, dominant species removal, and accelerated snowmelt on aboveground plant traits in the Colorado Rocky Mountains

2023

student_paper

Plasticity in Ipomopsis flower color and nectar production over space and time in response to water availability

2023

article

Molecular nature of mineral-organic associations within redox-active mountainous floodplain sediments

2023ACS Earth and Space Chemistry

article

Advanced monitoring of soil-vegetation co-dynamics reveals the successive controls of snowmelt on soil moisture and on plant seasonal dynamics in a mountainous watershed

2023Frontiers in Earth Science

article

Supporting advancement in weather and water prediction in the upper Colorado River Basin: The SPLASH campaign

2023Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society

article

The Surface Atmosphere Integrated Field Laboratory (SAIL) Campaign

2023Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society

article

Impact of Crosstalk on Reflectivity and Doppler Measurements for the WIVERN Polarization Diversity Doppler Radar

2023IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing

article

Evaluating 3 decades of precipitation in the Upper Colorado River basin from a high-resolution regional climate model

2023Geoscientific Model Development

article

Quantifying Subsurface Flow and Solute Transport in a Snowmelt-Recharged Hillslope With Multiyear Water Balance

2022Water Resources Research

article

BASIN-3D: A brokering framework to integrate diverse environmental data

2022Computers & Geosciences

article

Watershed zonation through hillslope clustering for tractably quantifying above-and below-ground watershed heterogeneity and functions

2022Hydrology and Earth System Sciences

article

Understanding the Hydrogeochemical Response of a Mountainous Watershed Using Integrated Surface-Subsurface Flow and Reactive Transport Modeling

2022Water Resources Research

article

Variability in observed stable water isotopes in snowpack across a mountainous watershed in Colorado

2022Hydrological Processes

article

The effects of spatial and temporal resolution of gridded meteorological forcing on watershed hydrological responses

2022Hydrology and Earth System Sciences

article

High-Resolution Snow-Covered Area Mapping in Forested Mountain Ecosystems Using PlanetScope Imagery

2022Remote Sensing

article

On the similarity of hillslope hydrologic function: a clustering approach based on groundwater changes

2022Hydrology and Earth System Sciences

article

Downscaled hyper-resolution (400 m) gridded datasets of daily precipitation and temperature (2008-2019) for East Taylor subbasin (western United States)

2022Earth System Science Data Discussions

article

Modeling Spatial Distribution of Snow Water Equivalent by Combining Meteorological and Satellite Data with Lidar Maps

2022Artificial Intelligence for the Earth Systems

article

Earlier snow melt and reduced summer precipitation alter floral traits important to pollination

2022Global Change Biology

article

Winters are changing: snow effects on Arctic and alpine tundra ecosystems

2022Arctic Science

article

Future Colorado River Basin Drought and Surplus

2022Hydrology

student_paper

Effects of high temperature and early snowmelt on floral morphology and volatile organic compounds in Ipomopsis aggregata

2021

student_paper

Nowcasting the distribution of Valeriana edulis using climate driven population models

2021

thesis

From tree to tap: The impacts of climate change on biogeochemical processes during conifer needle distribution and broader implications for water quality in Colorado

2021

thesis

The effects of anthropogenic change on pollination in plant-pollinator communities

2021

article

Modeling the Impact of Riparian Hollows on River Corridor Nitrogen Exports

2021Frontiers in Water

article

Modeling geogenic and atmospheric nitrogen through the East River Watershed, Colorado Rocky Mountains

2021PloS one

article

Effect of elevation, season and accelerated snowmelt on biogeochemical processes during isolated conifer needle litter decomposition

2021PeerJ

article

The Colorado East River Community Observatory Data Collection

2021Hydrologic Processes

article

The influence of orbital parameters on the North American Monsoon system during the Last Interglacial Period

2021Journal of Quaternary Science

article

Concentration-Discharge Relationships of Dissolved Rhenium in Alpine Catchments Reveal Its Use as a Tracer of Oxidative Weathering

2021Water Resources Research

article

Balancing the needs of consumers and producers for scientific data collections

2021Ecological Informatics

article

A deep learning hybrid predictive modeling (HPM) approach for estimating evapotranspiration and ecosystem respiration

2021Hydrology and Earth Systems Science

article

Improving predictions of stream CO2 concentrations and fluxes using a stream network model: A case study in the East River watershed, CO, USA

2021Global Biogeochemical Cycles

article

Geochemical Controls on Release and Speciation of Fe(II) and Mn(II) From Hyporheic Sediments of East River, Colorado

2020Frontiers in Water

article

Differential C-Q Analysis: A New Approach to Inferring Lateral Transport and Hydrologic Transients Within Multiple Reaches of a Mountainous Headwater Catchment

2020Frontiers in Water

article

Baseflow Age Distributions and Depth of Active Groundwater Flow in a Snow Dominated Mountain Headwater Basin

2020Water Resource Research doi 10.1029/2020WR028161

article

Remote Sensing-Informed Zonation for Understanding Snow, Plant and Soil Moisture Dynamics within a Mountain Ecosystem

2020Remote Sensing

article

The East River Community Observatory Data Collection: Diverse, multiscale data from a mountainous watershed in the East River, Colorado

2020Authorea

article

Automated Cloud Based Long Short-Term Memory Neural Network Based SWE Prediction

2020Frontiers in Water

article

Early snowmelt reduces aphid abundance Aphis asclepiadis by creating water stressed host plants Ligusticum porteri and altering interactions with ants

2020Arthropod-Plant Interactions

student_paper

Impacts of snowmelt timing and precipitation on the expression of vegetative traits and floral traits in Ipomopsis aggregata

2020

thesis

Water quality in dynamic redox environments: Coupled hydrologic-biogeochemical controls on metal contaminant mobility

2020

thesis

Early snowmelt and warming independently drive the reproductive phenology of subalpine wildflowers

2020

thesis

Seasonal manganese transport in the hyporheic zone of a snowmelt-dominated river (East River, Colorado)

2019

thesis

Climate change, phenological shifts, and species interactions: Case studies in subalpine plant and migratory fish populations

2019

thesis

Snowmelt affects aphid (Aphis asclepladis) populations through soil moisture and host plant phenology

2019

thesis

Pollinator mediated reproductive consequences of altered co-flowering under climate change depend on abiotic context

2019

thesis

Advanced phenology of higher trophic levels shifts aphid host plant preferences and performance

2019

article

Distinct Source Water Chemistry Shapes Contrasting Concentration-Discharge Patterns

2019Water Resources Research

article

Challenges in Building an End-to-End System for Acquisition, Management, and Integration of Diverse Data From Sensor Networks in Watersheds: Lessons From a Mountainous Community Observatory in East River, Colorado

2019IEEE Access

article

Assessment of Spatiotemporal Variability of Evapotranspiration and Its Governing Factors in a Mountainous Watershed

2019Water

article

Depth- and time-resolved distributions of snowmelt-driven hillslope subsurface flow and transport and their contributions to surface waters.

2019Water Resources Research

article

Sensitivity analysis of hydraulic conductivity and Manning’s n parameters lead to new method to scale effective hydraulic conductivity across model resolutions.

2019Hydrological Processes

article

Streamflow partitioning and transit time distribution in snow-dominated basins as a function of climate

2019Journal of Hydrology

article

Carbon Dioxide Concentrations and Efflux from Permanent, Semi-Permanent, and Temporary Subalpine Ponds

2019Wetlands

article

Early snowmelt projected to cause population decline in a subalpine plant

2019PNAS

thesis

Seasonal manganese transport in the hyporheic zone of a snowmelt-dominated river (East River, Colorado)

2019Hydrogeology Journal

article

Factors Controlling Seasonal Groundwater and Solute Flux from Snow-Dominated Basins

2018Hydrological Processes

article

Rocky Mountain Biological Laboratory, Gothic CO Ecology of Place: Making Ecology and Evolutionary Biology Spatially Explicit

2018Mountain Views

article

The East River, Colorado, Watershed: A mountainous community testbed for improving predictive understanding of multiscale hydrological-biogeochemical dynamics

2018Vadose Zone Journal

article

Plant functional trait change across a warming tundra biome

2018Nature

thesis

Effects of Climate Change on Plants, Pollinators and Their Interactions

2018

other

Rocky Mountain Biological Lab. Ecology of Place: Making Ecology and Evolutionary Biology spatially explicit

2018Mountain Views

article

Climate Warming Drives Local Extinction in a Subalpine Meadow

2018Mountain Views

article

Snowmelt controls on concentration-discharge relationships and the balance of oxidative and acid-base weathering fluxes in an alpine catchment, East River, Colorado

2017Water Resources Research

thesis

Productivity of Montane Meadows in a Warming World: Evidence from an Elevation Gradient and a Warming Experiment

2016

article

Convergent ecosystem responses to 23-year ambient and manipulated warming link advancing snowmelt and shrub encroachment to transient and long-term climateâ€“soil carbon feedback

2015Global Change Biology

thesis

Propagating climate and vegetation change through the hydrologic cycle in a mountain headwaters catchment.

2015

thesis

Plant–Pollinator interactions in a changing climate

2010

thesis

Patterns of natural avalanche activity associated with new snow water equivalence and upper atmospheric wind direction and speed in the mountains surrounding Gothic, Colorado

2010

article

Intercomparison, interpretation, and assessment of spring phenology in North America estimated from remote sensing for 1982 to 2006

2009Global Change Biology

article

Variation in the impact of climate change on flowering phenology and abundance: an examination of two pairs of closely related wildflower species

2009American Journal of Botany

student_paper

The effects of climate change on subalpine fir (Abies lasiocarpa) sapling growth and establishment success across an elevational gradient

2006

article

Changes in flowering and abundance of Delphinium nuttallianum (Ranunculaceae) in response to a subalpine climate warming experiment

2003Global Change Biology

article

Effects of snowpack on the timing and abundance of flowering in Delphinium nelsonii: implications for climate change

1991American Journal of Botany

article

Vegetation and environmental patterns in the Crested Butte area, Gunnison County, Colorado

1962Ecological Monographs

Winter snowpack

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Publications (96)

Snow microphysical processes in orographic turbulence revealed by cloud radar and in situ snowfall camera observations

Model-based interpretation of solute exports and carbon partitioning during shale weathering in a mountainous hillslope

Dimensions of difference: Multi-scale consequences of trait variation in bumble bees

Canopy structure modulates the sensitivity of subalpine forest stands to interannual snowpack and precipitation variability

Controls from above and below: Snow, soil, and steepness drive diverging trends of subsurface water and streamflow dynamics

Observations of surface energy fluxes and meteorology in the seasonally snow-covered high-elevation East River watershed during SPLASH, 2021–2023

Picky eater? How different environmental factors affect broad-tailed hummingbirds’ (Selasphorus platycercus) foraging patterns in the Rocky Mountains

Using time-lapse imagery to determine snow heterogeneity

Documents (73)

A Conduct and Evaluation of A Cloud Seeing Program

A Useful Guide to Architecture, History and Building in Crested Butte

A Useful Guide to Architecture, History, & Building in Crested Butte

Aspen Highlands EIS, Ski Area Improvement and Expansion Analysis, White River National Forest; Pitkin County, Colorado

Baseline soil inventory Mount Emmons Project Gunnison, Colorado

Buttes Gas & Oil Iron Hill – Powder Horn

Colorado River Debt 2

Colorado River Report

Endangered and Threatened Wildlife and Plants; 12-Month Finding on a Petition To List the Gunnison's Prairie Dog as an Endangered or Threatened Species

Endangered and Threatened Wildlife and Plants; 12-Month Finding on a Petition To List the North American Wolverine as Endangered or Threatened

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Streamflow

groundwater hydrology

Endangered Species Listing

Temperature

Greenhouse gas emissions

Habitat Protection

climatological variability

Water Runoff

Precipitation Variability

vegetation composition

Frequently Associated Species

fish and wildlife

Beetles

Populus tremuloides

Pinus contorta

Artemisia tridentata

Lynx canadensis

Abies lasiocarpa

Picea engelmannii

Delphinium

Castor canadensis

Investigating KDP signatures inside and below the dendritic growth layer with W-band Doppler radar and in situ snowfall camera

Matrix diffusion controls mountain hillslope groundwater ages and inferred storage dynamics

Seasonality and albedo dependence of cloud radiative forcing in the Upper Colorado River Basin

The short life of upvalley wind in a high-altitude valley in the Colorado Rocky Mountains

Hidden features: How subsurface and landscape heterogeneity govern hydrologic connectivity and stream chemistry in a montane watershed

Cold-season precipitation sensitivity to microphysical parameterizations: hydrologic evaluations leveraging snow lidar datasets

Hydrological control of rock carbon fluxes from shale weathering

Spatially distributed snow depth, bulk density, and snow water equivalent from ground-based and airborne sensor integration at Grand Mesa, Colorado, USA

Forest composition and structural controls on canopy snow interception in a Colorado watershed

Declining groundwater storage expected to amplify mountain streamflow reductions in a warmer world

Recent Upper Colorado River Streamflow Declines Driven by Loss of Spring Precipitation

Effects of warming, dominant species removal, and accelerated snowmelt on aboveground plant traits in the Colorado Rocky Mountains

Plasticity in Ipomopsis flower color and nectar production over space and time in response to water availability

Molecular nature of mineral-organic associations within redox-active mountainous floodplain sediments

Advanced monitoring of soil-vegetation co-dynamics reveals the successive controls of snowmelt on soil moisture and on plant seasonal dynamics in a mountainous watershed

Supporting advancement in weather and water prediction in the upper Colorado River Basin: The SPLASH campaign

The Surface Atmosphere Integrated Field Laboratory (SAIL) Campaign

Impact of Crosstalk on Reflectivity and Doppler Measurements for the WIVERN Polarization Diversity Doppler Radar

Evaluating 3 decades of precipitation in the Upper Colorado River basin from a high-resolution regional climate model

Quantifying Subsurface Flow and Solute Transport in a Snowmelt-Recharged Hillslope With Multiyear Water Balance

BASIN-3D: A brokering framework to integrate diverse environmental data

Watershed zonation through hillslope clustering for tractably quantifying above-and below-ground watershed heterogeneity and functions

Understanding the Hydrogeochemical Response of a Mountainous Watershed Using Integrated Surface-Subsurface Flow and Reactive Transport Modeling

Variability in observed stable water isotopes in snowpack across a mountainous watershed in Colorado

The effects of spatial and temporal resolution of gridded meteorological forcing on watershed hydrological responses

High-Resolution Snow-Covered Area Mapping in Forested Mountain Ecosystems Using PlanetScope Imagery

On the similarity of hillslope hydrologic function: a clustering approach based on groundwater changes

Downscaled hyper-resolution (400 m) gridded datasets of daily precipitation and temperature (2008-2019) for East Taylor subbasin (western United States)

Modeling Spatial Distribution of Snow Water Equivalent by Combining Meteorological and Satellite Data with Lidar Maps

Earlier snow melt and reduced summer precipitation alter floral traits important to pollination

Winters are changing: snow effects on Arctic and alpine tundra ecosystems

Future Colorado River Basin Drought and Surplus

Effects of high temperature and early snowmelt on floral morphology and volatile organic compounds in <i> Ipomopsis aggregata </i>

Nowcasting the distribution of <i> Valeriana edulis </i> using climate driven population models

From tree to tap: The impacts of climate change on biogeochemical processes during conifer needle distribution and broader implications for water quality in Colorado

The effects of anthropogenic change on pollination in plant-pollinator communities