Knowledge Neighborhoods

Maps the distribution of sensitive wildlife and plant species — including peregrine falcons and Sphagnum mosses — across named stream corridors and mid-elevation sites in the Gunnison Basin, with attention to landscape features and conservation best practices.

Investigates the cooling and exhumation history of western Colorado's Elk Mountains using apatite (U-Th)/He thermochronology to constrain the timing of river incision and landscape evolution in the upper Colorado drainage basin.

Bridges field research on high-elevation species — including dragonfly nymph physiology, carnivorous plant monitoring, and alpine wildlife adaptations — with Gunnison National Forest land and vehicle management documents centered on protecting undeveloped subalpine areas.

Maps a dense network of named places across the Gunnison Basin — from high-elevation cave and stream study sites to community planning infrastructure like mobile home parks and airport facilities — suggesting a geographic inventory bridging natural landscapes and human settlement.

Connects large-scale climate signals like the North Atlantic Oscillation to local animal population dynamics through long-term demographic trapping datasets collected at stream habitats.

Connects Gunnison County land use planning debates — including development covenants, vacant range allotments, and economic ripple effects — with wildlife habitat concerns and EPA oversight in a rural western landscape.

Connects historic agricultural, transportation, and recreational land uses across the Henson Creek watershed and surrounding high-country communities.

Connects fragmented western U.S. locations through shared concerns about water restoration, wildlife movement barriers, and historical land tenure systems.

Anchors spatial memory and place-based recall across the Gunnison River watershed, linking county-level administrative boundaries with watershed geography at mid-elevation.

Combines ensemble forecasting and remote sensing methods to model and validate habitat quality for riparian species including alder, a rare buckwheat, and yellow-billed cuckoo across western Colorado landscapes.

Explores genetic structure, inbreeding, and optimal outcrossing distances in alpine wildflowers using transect-based seed sampling and F-statistics to understand gene flow and reproductive fitness across populations.

Connects three characteristic alpine wildflower genera — fleabane, whitlow-grass, and bistort — through variance partitioning methods that disentangle the environmental and ecological factors driving high-elevation plant community patterns.