A lot of change can happen in just one year. This field season was unlike any other I have seen in the years I have been monitoring alpine plants. A lot of dynamics happen on a mountaintop, even when the overall rhythm of life – snow, snowmelt, growth, snow – remains the same. The year…

Another summer of fieldwork is successfully wrapped up, and we are trading the high peaks of the Rockies for a convention center in Portland for the Ecological Society of America’s annual meeting. The fresh air of the mountains has been replaced with smoke from nearby wildfires, but it will be an exciting week of science…