This is a pika outhouse. That is years of poop! Yosemite National Park

A wild #pika has appeared.

ICYMI, we have added snow albedo and snow radiative forcing to the daily image update section of our Snow Today analysis page. Learn more in our latest post: nsidc.org/snow-today and find the images here: bit.ly/3MYZEGK. INSTAAR 🏳️‍🌈

Our LTER Grad Writing Fellows come up with some great stories—about women in oceanography, pika at Niwot Ridge LTER, ag legacies at Coweeta, and more. We're recruiting a new cohort of fellows—if interested in writing about awesome LTER science, apply below! lternet.edu/stories/lter-g…

Greeted by another unsolicited gem in my inbox:

Shiny new resource for research on #pikas: The Nevada Pika Atlas maps all known pika habitat-occupancy surveys within the Silver State ndow.org/wp-content/upl…

Just hosted THIS amazing scientist peterbillman.com, who's surveying for #pikas all over Colorado this summer, then off to more grad school UConn - GO Peter !!! (3rd from left here w/teamPika 2016)

Another crop of 3 dozen fabulous and fearless Colorado Pika Project volunteers trained RockyNPS last weekend, thanks to Denver Zoo Conservation Alliance and Rocky Mountain Wild for training and Kristi Odum for the photo!

New research just published in PLOS Climate: Emily Monk & chris ray of CU Boulder 🦬 finds evidence for rapid change in subsurface microclimates with potential #conservation implications for a climate-sensitive charismatic species journals.plos.org/climate/articl… #ClimateChange #Ecology

For Emily Monk's paper on #pikas and #microclimate (x.com/PLOSClimate/st…), we thank Harry Robert Krear (1922–2017), whose prescience helped establish the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge and also produced the historical data to support this study Niwot Ridge LTER

Dare I say, cool series on permafrost?

INSTAAR Fieldwork Highlights youtu.be/0kHYlVwbO7k via YouTube (spot yourself on the pika crew)

More fun than all my other apps combined: an app for #pikas! pikapartners.org/pikapatrol/

Ooof! More and better evidence that American #pikas are adapted to cold environments @russellolab University of British Columbia - academic.oup.com/g3journal/adva…

On 11/8 at 11am MT, join @CiresEO & ExploringByTheSeat - Find us on BlueSky for the McMurdo Speaker Series: Intro to the Upper Atmosphere, LIVE with CU Boulder 🦬's Yingfei Chen. Learn about the #UpperAtmosphere and how it connects to our #weather & #climate. Register now ➡️ tinyurl.com/McMurdoLIDAR

Just in: The hole in the ozone layer — the portion of the stratosphere that protects our planet from the sun’s ultraviolet rays — is continuing to decrease. Details: noaa.gov/news-release/a… #OzoneLayer NOAA Research

Paper with two former PhD students Evan Johnson (2022) and Chris Ray (1997) based on data and ideas from both their times as students just appeared in Eco Lett doi.org/10.1111/ele.14… Interesting ideas about population crashes. Never give up on old data and ideas!!

If you or your kids have not seen this...globalwarmingprimer.com

Head still spinning today from the enormity and incongruity of the daily news. Maybe I'm reaching the limits of compartmentalization.

#Pikas couldn't care less about twitter, so we're taking a break to mull next steps.