Events

Harlow Summer Seminar – August 8, Lusha Tronstad and Scott Hotaling

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Aug. 8, 2024 | 5:30 PM MT, The first 10 years of the Teton Alpine Stream Research project: What we've learned and where we're going, Lusha Tronstad and Scott Hotaling

 Harlow Summer Seminar – August 8, Lusha Tronstad and Scott Hotaling

Join us next Thursday, August 8th, for our final summer seminar of the season! Last but not least, Lusha Tronstad and Scott Hotaling will give a science talk, “The first 10 years of the Teton Alpine Stream Research project: What we’ve learned and where we’re going.” By sampling the same 12 streams in the Teton Range every August since 2015, the Teton Alpine Stream Research team has observed a whole host of changes to alpine streams in the Teton Range, highlighting the power of long-term monitoring for quantifying climate change impacts on mountain ecosystems. 

If you’re in the area, join us Grand Teton National Park at the UW-NPS Research Station at the AMK Ranch. There will be a BBQ on the lawn outside Berol Lodge starting at 5:30 PM, and the talk starts at 6:30 PM MT. Can’t join us in person? Subscribe to our mailing list to tune in on Zoom!

More info: https://uwnps.org/event/tronstad-hotaling/ 

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Harlow Summer Seminar – August 1, 2024, Katherine Gura

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Harlow Summer Seminar – August 1, Katherine Gura

Join us next week, August 1st, 2024, for the next installment of the Harlow Summer Seminar Series. Katherine Gura will give a talk entitled, “Effects of changing snow conditions on an iconic raptor of the Greater Yellowstone Ecosystem: The Great Gray Owl.” Learn about how habitat selection, long-distance movements, and reproduction change for great gray owls in response to shifting winter conditions in the GYE.

We are located in Grand Teton National Park at the UW-NPS Research Station at the AMK Ranch.  We will host a pre-seminar BBQ at 5:30 pm on the lawn outside Berol Lodge, and the talk starts at 6:30pm MT.

Can’t make it in person? Join us on Zoom! Subscribe to our mailing list to get a link.

View the seminar event page for more information.

Harlow Summer Seminar – July 25, 2024, Sailor

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Harlow Summer Seminar – July 25, 2024, Sailor

Join us for another seminar next Thursday, July 25th! If you enjoyed this week’s seminar about the history seminar, you’re in for another treat. In her talk, “When the cameras came: Photography and the American West” Rachel Sailor will discuss what we can learn from the aesthetics and composition of historic Western photography, and the complexity that emerges when considering the artistic decisions of the photographers. 

We will have a BBQ at 5:30, and the seminar starts at 6:30pm MT. Join us in Berol Lodge, at the AMK Ranch in Grand Teton National Park, or via Zoom! Subscribe to our mailing list to receive a link: https://uwnps.org/mailing-list/

More info: https://uwnps.org/event/sailor/

Special Event! July 20, 2024, WYOBIRD

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SATURDAY, July 20, 2024: Special Event with WYOBIRD! Schedule: 8-10am: Birding tours; 10-2pm: Crafts & Activities; 12-2pm: Picnic Lunch; 2-4pm: Research Talks

Special Event! July 20, 2024, WYOBIRD

Next Saturday, July 20th, join Wyoming Bird Initiative for Resilience and Diversity (WYOBIRD) students & faculty at the UW-NPS Research Station in Grand Teton National Park at the AMK Ranch for a day of tours, activities, and talks about birds across the Americas! Come join us for a fun day of learning about birds, research, and more!

More info: https://uwnps.org/event/special-event-wyobird/  

Harlow Summer Seminar – July 18, 2024, Farrelly

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July 18, 2024 | 5:30 PM MT, Compliments of Hamilton and Sargent or What Really Happened at the Historic AMK Ranch, Maura Jane Farrelly, Brandeis

Harlow Summer Seminar – July 18, 2024, Farrelly

Join us next Thursday for our next seminar, “Compliments of Hamilton and Sargent, or What Really Happened at the Historic AMK Ranch.” Following the BBQ at 5:30pm, Maura Jane Farrelly will give a talk about her research on the history of the AMK Ranch, discuss the research challenges she faced, and present a short reading from her new book: Compliments of Hamilton and Sargent, A Story of Mystery and Tragedy on the Gilded Age Frontier.  

Come learn about the true history of this historic site, right where it all happened. Or, join us via Zoom! We’ll stream the seminar online at 6:30PM MT. Subscribe to our mailing list to get a link! https://uwnps.org/mailing-list/

More info: https://uwnps.org/event/farrelly/

Special Event – July 11, 2024, Wyoming Festival

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Special Event – July 11, 2024, The Wyoming Festival: New Music in the Mountains

Join us next Thursday, July 11, during our regular seminar time, for the final concert of the Wyoming Festival: New Music in the Mountains. Grab a burger at 5:30, and then head inside for this special event at 6:30pm. The concert will include premiere performances of new chamber music pieces inspired by the wild and natural setting of Grand Teton National Park!

Can’t make it next Thursday? There will also free preview concert on Wednesday, July 10 at 3:00pm in the Teton County Library, Ordway Auditorium A!

More info: https://uwnps.org/event/wyofest2024/

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The Wyoming Festival is a 5-day chamber music festival devoted to the creation of new concert music inspired and informed by the wild and natural setting of Grand Teton National Park.

Through a competitive process, five music composition fellows—Becka Dulaney, Asia Fajardo-Diamond, Daniel Galbreath, Bonnie McLarty, and Shawna Wolf —have been invited to participate along with festival founder, director, and composer, Anne M. Guzzo, a former UW Department of Music professor.

Their music will be performed by Wyoming Festival chamber artists-in-residence, world renown musicians, all of whom also play in the Grand Teton Music Festival Orchestra. The ensemble is led by violinist Holly Mulcahy and includes Barbara Scowcroft, violin; Kayla Williams, viola; Steve Laven, cello; and Stephanie Key, clarinet.

Harlow Summer Seminar – June 27, 2024, Jones & Beeman

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Harlow Summer Seminar – June 27, 2024, Jones & Beeman

Join us next Thursday, June 27, 2024, for another Harlow Summer Seminar! Come for the BBQ (at 5:30); stay for Laura Jones and Anne Beeman’s talk (at 6:30) entitled, “Rooted in restoration: Collaborative sagebrush management practices and strategies.”  

Can’t make it in person? The seminar will be available via Zoom! Food is in person only (unless you supply your own pre-show burger and snacks at home). We’ll stream the seminar online at 6:30PM MT. Subscribe to our mailing list to get a link! https://uwnps.org/mailing-list/

More info: https://uwnps.org/event/jones-beeman/

Harlow Summer Seminar – June 20, 2024, William Fetzer

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"June 20th, 2024 | 5:30 PM MT, Big fish eat little fish: An expanded framework to guide aquatic resource management"

Harlow Summer Seminar – June 20, 2024, William Fetzer

We are excited to welcome everyone back to the station on Thursday, June 20th, for the first installment of this year’s Harlow Summer Seminar Series! Dr. William Fetzer will give a talk titled, “Big fish eat little fish: An expanded framework to guide aquatic resource management.”  

Enjoy a BBQ at 5:30 followed by the seminar at 6:30. Reservations not required.  

Can’t make it in person? Join us on Zoom! To get a zoom link for the seminar, sign up for our mailing list! 

UW-NPS Bat Week Giveaway Competition: October 24-31, 2023 

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UW-NPS Bat Week Giveaway Competition: October 24-31, 2023

Celebrate Bat Week 2023 (Oct. 24-31) with UW-NPS! The best way to help bats is to spread knowledge and awareness of their positive impact on our ecosystems. You can help by 1) learning about bats, and 2) sharing your knowledge. This week, the more you talk about bats, the more opportunities you’ll get to win a FREE 2023 UW-NPS Bat Week sticker (designed by Anna Cressman), and some other secret prizes! 

We invite you to join us on Facebook, Instagram, and X (@uwnps) where we’ll be posting bat facts, trivia, and conversation starters throughout the week. We challenge you to add a meaningful comment on every UW-NPS Bat Week post, and then share the post with your colleagues and friends so that we can get as many people talking about bats as possible. 

On Oct. 31st, we’ll have a drawing where 10 lucky winners will receive a free sticker! Each post you comment on AND share before 10/30 @ 11:50 PM MT = 1 entry in the drawing. This counts for each of our social media platforms, which means you could get 3 entries per day by participating on Facebook, Instagram, and X (Twitter). A couple competition rules:  

  • Comments must move the conversation forward, which means that single character comments don’t count.  

  • You must be following UW-NPS on at least one social media platform to be eligible to win.

Thank you for celebrating Bat Week 2023 with UW-NPS! Good luck! 

Harlow Seminar – August 3rd, 2023, Ana Houseal

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Harlow Seminar – August 3rd, 2023, Ana Houseal

America’s largest classroom – what we learn from our National Parks
Speaker: Ana Houseal, University of Wyoming
Time: Thursday, August 3rd, 5:30pm MT, talk begins at 6:30pm MT
Location: UW-NPS Research Station at the AMK Ranch, in the Berol Lodge

The talk will also be available via Zoom (The zoom link will be made available through our email list. If you are not on the list, please click here to join: https://uwnps.org/mailing-list/)

 

Abstract

From the Golden Gate National Parks, Grand Tetons, and the Great Smokies to Monticello, Civil War battlefields, and Japanese internment camps, students of all ages are learning first-hand, in motivating and authentic ways, about climate change, U. S. history, biodiversity, and cultural diversity. Virtual field trips to the Grand Canyon, Alaska’s Katmai National Park, and more than 40 NPS units became even more popular during the Covid crisis. These immersive, place-based experiences also lead learners to reconsider their own goals and abilities. Since educating the whole person should include experiential learning in local communities, states, and regions, our National Park System sites represent our nation’s most significant landscapes, ecosystems, and historical/cultural sites. This talk will explore ideas about life-long learning within our National Park System and share case studies and research findings from a book released at the beginning of the pandemic, America’s Largest Classroom: What We Learn from Our National Parks (U. California Press, 2020). As exemplified in this volume, these places extend beyond the well-known parks, thus “America’s Best Idea” needs our continued vision about what it helps us all know and begin to understand about our country and ourselves.

Bio

Ana Houseal, PhD, is a Professor and Science Outreach Educator for the Science and Mathematics Teaching Center at the University of Wyoming. Her work focuses on science education in formal (public schools) and non-formal (National Parks) settings. Dr. Houseal and her team have been facilitating responsive K-12 science teacher professional development all over Wyoming since 2012, regarding the implementation of the new science standards using place-based phenomena and instructional storylines. Dr. Houseal’s research and scholarship sits at the intersection of science, place, science standards and shifts in instruction. Further, she explores how connections to our public lands can satisfy many of these objectives. In this way, she supports crossovers between formal and non-formal spaces in ways that benefit both.

Speaker Contact Info

Ana Houseal, ahouseal@uwyo.edu

 

Ana Houseal smiles for an outdoor headshot

Headshot photo credit: Samantha Rutkowske

Park visitors look at Orange Spring Mound on a snowy day

YNP Orange Spring Mound. Photo credit: Ana Houseal