Summer 2004 GLORIA field week
In the summer of 2004 WMRS teamed up with the US Forest Service to establish two GLORIA monitoring sites, consisting of 4 peaks each, located in the eastern Sierra Nevada and in the White Mountains (see GLORIA map). On each peak a monitoring protocol has been set up, and baseline data recorded. The monitoring plan then calls for each site to be re-sampled at 5 year intervals. Changes in vegetation will be noted and correlated to other environmental variables such as soil temperature and air temperature.
Poster In November 2004 we prepared a poster for presentation at the American Geophysical Union meetings in San Francisco, summarizing the findings to date. View or download powerpoint version of poster
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Installing plots and taking measurements on Mt. Barcroft 8-19-04 |
The 2004 White Mountain GLORIA transect summits are shown as yellow stars on the relief map at left. They range in elevation (top, left to bottom, right):
The 2004 transect summits were carefully chosen so as to be on dark-colored soils with granitic/metamorphic parent rock. In contrast, the 2005 White Mountain GLORIA transect (candidate summits shown with blue question marks) will be on light-colored soils with carbonate parent rock. This soil type supports a very different vegetation community, providing and interesting contrast between the two parallel transects. |
