In July of 2009, a group of scientists assembled at White Mountain Research Station’s Crooked Creek Laboratory for the 2009 GLORIA field week.  Despite incredible thunderstorms during the week, we completed a 5-year resurvey of four GLORIA peaks: White Mountain Peak (4285 m, 14058 ft), Barcroft Peak (3975 m, 13041 ft), RNA Peak (3722 m, 12211 ft), and a high point on Sagehen Flat (3258 m, 10698 ft).   Also completed were the the 4th consecutive years of a meadow insect survey and a high-elevation butterfly count.

The GLORIA resurvey consisted of re-locating a series of exact points and quadrats that were first surveyed in 2005.   Both plots and entire summits were resurveyed using the original methodology and then by comparing high quality photographs taken in 2004.  Original data sheets from both the 2004 & 2009 surveys are archived in the Owen’s Valley Lab at White Mountain Research Station and the data is compiled and stored with the international GLORIA database in Austria.   For more information, see the Project page or the GLORIA Tips page.

Please see the links above for a complete list of participants and projects, and the links below for some preliminary data.

Preliminary Data-Sets:   GLORIA map.jpg

                                          Google Earth KML

                                          Plant Species Lists

                                          Butterfly Species List

                                          Summit Temperature Data