Draft working List of GLORIA-related projects and proposals

• Temporal and spatial scales of temperature pattern in an alpine fellfield ecosystem – Phil Rundel (UCLA-CENS)
• Geomorphic Monitoring of Periglacial Activity near White Mountain Research Station GLORIA Sites - Forrest Wilkerson and Ginger Schmid (Minnesota State University)
• Annual Butterfly Counts: vegetation change and flowering phenology John Smiley (WMRS)
• The effects of climate change on the hibernation of ground squirrels Craig Frank (Fordham University)
• Resurvey of historic Joseph Grinnell survey, and other vertebrate sampling – Jim Patton (UCB)
• Geobotany and Remote Sensing of the White-Inyo Range - Gary Ernst, Stuart Weiss (Stanford Univ.) and Chris Van de Van
• Bristlecone pine recruitment since 1900 and its correlation with the middle of the Holocene line using image analysis, Linah Ababneh (WMRS-volunteer)
• GLORIA-WMRS web site - John Smiley and Daniel Pritchett (WMRS)
• Mountain Climate Reference Network (MCRN), including soil moisture sensors at Barcroft and Crooked Creek – Mark Losleben (Mountain Research Station)
• High-elevation forest response to 21st century climate change (= demography at low, mid, and high elevation of limber and bristlecone pine in the general region of the GLORIA sites). Connie Millar
• Paleoecology of limber pine at the north end of the White Mtns (Trail Cyn, Middle Cr), evaluating historic elevation and aspect shifts of pine to changing climates of the past four millennia. Connie Millar
• Permafrost and periglacial processes Connie Millar
• Jessica Greene (UC Merced) soils project (name?)
• Biogeographic history, climate change, and conservation of high altitude endemic insects in the Sierra Nevada and White Inyo Ranges. Sean Schoville (UC Berkeley)

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