After almost four years, and so so much help from my amazing advisor @seemasheth.bsky.social and many others, I am grateful to be able to share this publication with the world.

When I finally started analyzing the data for this paper, I was a snobby Californian who’d just moved to the east coast, hopeful to help answer questions about alpine plant communities and climate change.

Eventually, I fell in love with these places as a park ranger and naturalist. Questions about what was happening here in the context of climate change bubbled to the top of my mind.

During the time I was busy growing up, learning how to love, and discovering botany and ecology, a group of beautiful, heartfull people climbed these peaks, endured sun, rain, and wind, and bore witness to these places.

When the first piece of data included in this paper was collected, I looked like this:

Raleigh! I’m giving a 15 minute talk this weekend at JC Raulston Arboretum in celebration of a small donation of Erigeron plants to the local Piedmont Chapter of the North American Rock Garden Society! dm for deets, comment for more Erigeron pics.