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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

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