Niwot Ridge Field Trip

Niwot Ridge LTER Lead PI Mark Williams led a group of ASM attendees on a field trip to the Mountain Research station, 36 miles away.

Niwot Ridge is a research site 22 miles (35 km) west of Boulder, Colorado. The entire site is above 9800 feet (3000 m) elevation.

Scientists and students can study the environment, climate, and biota of a cirque glacier, extensive alpine tundra, a variety of glacial landforms, glacial lakes and moraines, cirques and talus slopes, patterned ground, and permafrost.

The record for atmospheric carbon dioxide concentration on Niwot Ridge is among the longest for continental North America.

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