...from researchers @kalebgoff.bsky.social, Meagan Oldfather, Jan Nachlinger, Brian Smithers, Micheal Koontz, Catie Bishop, Jim Bishop, Mary Burke, & @seemasheth.bsky.social

DATA: bit.ly/3USv7PT
ARTICLE: bit.ly/3UZFRMh

#ecology #openaccess #opendata #climatechange #biology #scisky

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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:

A little more story behind the scientific story and what this all means to me:

Agree overall, didn’t read the article, and in my opinion the way forward is via a natural history revolution in undergraduate education including bryology and lichenology among the other glorious “ologies”.

Awesome plant, awesome place, awesome research! I am fairly confident we found a new individual of Draba asterophora on one of the Carson Range GLORIA peaks (Freel) in 2022, right on the bottom edge of where we monitor!

Best way to start the week!