This meeting is mandatory for all students, faculty, and staff conducting field research on Niwot Ridge over the coming year.

Please email us for additional information including meeting location.

Graduate students funded by the Niwot Ridge LTER will update the Niwot community on their research progress.

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New in 2025: Optional information sessions on Niwot data for 30 minutes prior to the All-NWT meetings.

Data Session Topic: Submitting Niwot data for archiving. We will cover ezEML, updating existing datasets and Niwot data policies.

Additional Details: Please consider attending this data session if you have ever found yourself asking….
Do I need to submit data to Niwot?
How do I submit data to Niwot?
I found an error in a dataset I already published with Niwot, what do I do?
How does data submission through Niwot differ from other repositories to which I send data?

If you wish to attend, please email us for additional information.

James Rattling Leaf from the North Central Climate Adaptation Science Center will lead a meeting focused on cultural intelligence and indigenous knowledge.

Please email us for additional information including meeting location.

Featured image: James Rattling Leaf, photo by CIRES.

New in 2025: Optional information sessions on Niwot data for 30 minutes prior to the All-NWT meetings.

Data Session Topic: Using Niwot data in your research. We will cover finding Niwot data, understanding metadata, versioning and proper citation, and downloading Niwot data.

Additional Details: Please consider attending this session if you have ever found yourself asking…
Does Niwot have data on <insert your topic here>?
How do I cite Niwot data?
What unit is <insert your favorite topic here> measured in?
I read a cool paper using Niwot data? Are those data still collected?

If you wish to attend, please email us for additional information.

JOIN US FOR OUR FIRST MEETING OF 2025!

Education and Outreach Coordinator Alex Rose will lead a creative and collaborative meeting that mixes data with art.

Please email us for additional information including meeting location.

Featured image: Fieldwork on Niwot Ridge, photo by Alex Rose.

New in 2025: Optional information sessions on Niwot data for 30 minutes prior to the All-NWT meetings.

Data Session Topic: Using Niwot data in your research. We will cover finding Niwot data, understanding metadata, versioning and proper citation, and downloading Niwot data.

Additional Details: Please consider attending this session if you have ever found yourself asking…
Does Niwot have data on <insert your topic here>?
How do I cite Niwot data?
What unit is <insert your favorite topic here> measured in?
I read a cool paper using Niwot data? Are those data still collected?

If you wish to attend, please email us for additional information.

Jen Morse and Alex Rose of the Niwot Ridge LTER help run SnowSchool, an outreach program for a regional elementary school. If you’re curious about working with them, please consider attending this training event on Jan 26 from 11am-2pm at the CU Mountain Research Station. Volunteers should plan to sign up for at least one SnowSchool program, which are on week days from 10am to 1pm.

To volunteer, you don’t have to study snow, you just have to like playing in it—all scientists welcome! For more information, please email us. To register for the training, contact frankie@wildbear.org.

Niwot researcher Katya Jay will present her poster, “Quantifying Climate-Driven Woody Encroachment Rates across Alpine Tundra Ecosystems,” at the 2024 annual meeting of the American Geophysical Union (AGU24).

For more information about AGU24, including the meeting schedule, click here.

Featured image: Katya Jay in the field, photo by Stephanie Maltarich.

Our December All-NWT Meeting will focus on the mid-term site review.

Please email lternwt@colorado.edu for meeting location information.

Featured image: Niwot researchers sampling plant, soil, and insects for the Tundra Warming Experiment, photo by Nancy Emery.

Join us for exciting updates from the 2024 field season!

Our November meeting will feature a series of short talks by Principal and Senior Investigators.

Please email lternwt@colorado.edu for meeting location information.

Featured image: Niwot researchers installing sensor stations for the Tundra Warming Experiment, photo by Luke Wheeler.

Please email lternwt@colorado.edu if there is a topic or issue that you would like discussed at our fall leadership meeting.

Please email lternwt@colorado.edu if there is a topic or issue that you would like discussed at our monthly staff meeting.

We will meet with Katie Jones from the National Science Foundation’s National Ecological Observatory Network to brainstorm ways to collaborate on topics of diversity, equity and inclusion and Indigenous data governance (IDGov).

Please email lternwt@colorado.edu if you would like to join us.