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WMRS-GLORIA
Global Observation Research
Initiative in Alpine Environments

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2008 CEREC Symposium
Climate, Ecosystems and Resources in Eastern California,
Nov.5-8, 2008 Bishop

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NRS University of California Natural Reserve System

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CIRMOUNT
Consortium for Integrated Climate
Research in Western Mountains

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OBFS
Organization of Biological Field Stations

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Roadside Heritage Program
Eastern Sierra Institute
for Collaborative Education

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Station News:
For more station news, and older news stories, see news page...

Photos: Clouds over OVL, 5-31-11 at 11:15 am *** White Mountain snowscape from Sheep Pass *** Mt. Tom in winter

Spring 2012 Notice to Station users:

Major budget cuts have caused changes in 2012 operations, including a winter-spring shutdown of the Owens Valley Laboratory facilities. We now plan to open the Owens Valley Laboratory facilities on a limited basis beginning May 30, 2012, and running through October 28, 2012. Staffing limitations may force us to limit use to high priority applicants, primarily repeat users with preference given to University of California affiliations, but we will try to accommodate as many applicants as possible. Please note that operations at Crooked Creek and Barcroft should remain open in summer-fall 2012, although possibly with a slightly shortened season. We are working hard to resolve these uncertainties and meet the needs of our user community (3/20/12), and are terribly sorry for disrupting your valuable research and educational programs...

The last talk of the 2012 WMRS Public Lecture Series was held at the station on Thursday March 29, at 7pm. The talk was given by Alexandra Few, Wildlife Biologist, Sierra Nevada Bighorn Sheep Recovery Program, CDFG and was entitled: "Recovery of Sierra Nevada Bighorn Sheep: Understanding Habitat Use and Distribution." Talks are FREE and open to the public. All talks are given at the Owens Valley Laboratories, 4 miles east of Highway 395 on East Line Street.

Planning for the Barcroft Open House is currently on hold until staffing and budgetary uncertainties are resolved. Check back here for future announcements.

The WMRS Graduate Student Minigrant Program is not currently accepting applications for 2012. We will notify WMRS stations users via this web site and our email lists when the fate of the program has been determined.

Cleanup and Renovation at the Owens Valley Laboratory (see photos)

Read about WMRS-GLORIA in High Country News feature article "Dancing with Climate Change." Writer Madeleine Nash and photographer Tom Nash joined us for the 2010 GLORIA field week and put together a wonderful overview of the project including a spectacular cover photo of our own Jeff Holmquist sweeping bugs in front of White Mountain Peak!

New compilation of long-term data from Barcroft shows warming trends of .5 to 1.5 degrees Celsius. Unfiltered nightly low temperature data shown here. To enlarge, click once, then click again on graph.
See Long-term Weather page for analysis, data, graphs & other information.

Bighorn Sheep exclusion fence completed at Barcroft. Story, photo...

UC Davis Odyssey field trip offsets carbon footprint by contributing to WMRS energy project! details

Summer 2009 monitoring data reveals surprisingly high concentrations of atmospheric ozone at White Mountain summit and Barcroft. More info...

WMRS-affiliated astronomer George Smoot wins Nobel Prize for his work on the origins of the universe! more information on Dr. Smoot and the key role of WMRS in the history of cosmology

More news! See WMRS news pages.