Station
News:
For more station news, and older news stories, see news
page....
New
article in Mammoth Times about Barcroft Open House, with
photos by Denise Waterbury, entitled "Riding
the Lunar Landscape."
The 26th Annual Physiological Ecology Conference, was
held at OVL on June 5-7, 2009. 13
presentations, including one by featured speaker John Harrison
of Arizona State University, were given to the audience of 50
attendees.. See phys-eco
web site for registration information and other details.
Student
Minigrant Awards WMRS awarded 16 fellowships supporting
graduate student research at the station, totalling over $20,000.
See 2009
list of recipients. Recipients included 9 researchers from
5 UC campuses, in additon to 7 from other Universities.
High
Country News article
about WMRS friend/associate Hal Klieforth!
Barcroft
Snowshoe Trip Report 3-13-2009 see story
and photos
Christine
Goedhart, UC Irvine graduate student, talks about her plant physiology
research in the Owens Valley. See
story and photos.
In
December the Willow Beetle Project was awarded a 5-year,
$800,000 grant from the National Science Foundation,
for the research proposal entitled "Ecological and evolutionary
responses to environmental change in Sierra Nevada populations
of a montane willow beetle." See beetle
project web pages for more information about this long-running
WMRS-based project.
White
Mountain Summit climate station records 162.4 mile per hour windspeed
at 5 am, December 19, 2008! This was the peak of 9 consecutive
hours of continuous winds >100mph! See
link to WM Summit Weather Station (click on historical data link)
The
5th White Mountain Research Station regional research
symposium: "Climate, Ecosystems and Resources in
Eastern California" (CEREC) was held on November
5-8, 2008 in Bishop. See news
page for details.
WMRS-affiliated
astronomer George Smoot wins Nobel Prize for his work on the origins
of the universe! more
information
More
news! See WMRS news
pages.