This student-led work stems from the Climate Adaptation Intern Program--a new program at USU to support undergrads engaging with climate change. The program is supported by Secure Water Future (USDA-SWF), USU Extension, and USU Watershed Sciences. More info: qcnr.usu.edu/research/caip/

A slice of mountain stream ecology life… m.youtube.com/watch?v=5dEbz4…

Current view: The rarely seen up close Skillet Glacier in Grand Teton National Park.

NOAA led State of the Climate 2023 report published in BAMS is out. The cover is a pair of images I took of a glacier that dissappeared in 2023 after 40 years of our continuous monitoring, overall the cryosphere not faring well. NOAA Climate.gov American Meteorological Society ametsoc.org/index.cfm/ams/…

Thrilled to share this preprint from my postdoc w/ Joanna Kelley Studying Zoarcoidei, we detected gradients in antifreeze protein (AFP) copy number across habitat temperature and pressure driven by homologs translocated out of an ancestral AFP array biorxiv.org/content/10.110…

Utah has between 800 and 900 rock glaciers, and given a diminishing winter snowpack, Scott Hotaling is studying them to see what their influence is on water supply. QCNR at USU #water #glacier #conservation kuer.org/science-enviro…

Someone randomly retweeted this today so I was reminded of it. What a wild time that was.

While surface glaciers are losing volume rapidly due to climate change, rock glaciers seem to be holding steadier, according to researchers Scott Hotaling and Kendall Becker. QCNR at USU USU Extension #water #glacier #conservation npr.org/2024/09/30/nx-…

Rock glaciers and the future of mountain water resources on NPR's ShortWave podcast today--listen here: npr.org/2024/10/11/121…