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

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/

Harlow Summer Seminar – July 18, 2024, Farrelly

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/

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

"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

Harlow Seminar – August 3rd, 2023, Ana Houseal

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

Harlow Seminar – July 27th, 2023, Hank Harlow and Harold Bergman

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Harlow Seminar – July 27th, 2023, Hank Harlow and Harold Bergman

A (brief) history of research and partnership between the University of Wyoming and Grand Teton National Park.

Speakers: Hank Harlow and Harold Bergman, Professors Emeritus, Department of Zoology and Physiology,and Former Directors, UW-NPS Research Station at AMK Ranch, University of Wyoming
Time: Thursday, July 27th, 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:

Hank Harlow will start the seminar with a short account of the evolution of science-based management in the National Park Service and the need for external research to address challenges for maintaining the ecological integrity of our Parks. He will chronicle the history of the UW-NPS from the 1945 Jackson Hole Wildlife Park and its role in supporting science in the GYE through financial, logistic and program support. Harold Bergman will follow with a review of UW-NPS Cooperative Agreements, typical events in a year at the Research Station, and a summary of major recent UW investments in the Station’s infrastructure and operations. Station Interim Director Michael Dillon will then join Hank and Harold to continue the discussion and help answer audience questions.

Biographies:

Hank Harlow is a physiological ecologist with research interests on animal adaptations to stressful environments such as cold temperatures and food scarcity in relation to spatial and energy needs. Animals studied include black bears in the Rocky Mountains, badgers on the Wyoming prairie as well as Komodo dragons in Indonesia, polar bears in the Arctic and Sun bears in Borneo. Hank was Director of the UW-NPS Research Station for 20 years spending summers at the AMK Ranch with his wife and two boys enjoying Sargent’s peninsula as their back yard. Now, as professor emeritus, he is active in the Tucson AZ community running wildlife cameras for spotted cats, volunteering at the Sonoran Desert Museum, conducting workshops on wildlife tracking and mountain biking desert trails.

 

Harold Bergman retired in 2016 from his positions as Professor of Zoology and Physiology, J.E. Warren Distinguished Professor of Energy and the Environment, Director of the UW-National Park Service Research Station, and former Director of the Haub School and the Ruckelshaus Institute of Environment and Natural Resources at the University of Wyoming. Bergman earned a PhD in Fisheries Biology at Michigan State University in 1973 and has been on the UW faculty since 1975. He has authored or co-authored over 100 research articles and edited four books on diverse topics related to his principal research interests in environmental toxicology, fish physiology, and environmental policy. He has received numerous research and teaching awards, and he has served on a number of national and international advisory and review panels dealing with environmental and natural resource policy. 

Harold Bergman, photo provided by Harold Bergman

Harold Bergman, photo provided by Harold Bergman

Hank Harlow, photo provided by Hank Harlow

Hank Harlow, photo provided by Hank Harlow

Left to Right: Harold Bergman, Michael Dillon, Hank Harlow, photo provided by Harold Bergman

Left to Right: Harold Bergman, Michael Dillon, Hank Harlow, photo provided by Harold Bergman

Fishing on the dock at AMK ranch, photo provided by Hank Harlow

Fishing on the dock at AMK ranch, photo provided by Hank Harlow

AMK Ranch, photo provided by Harold Bergman

AMK Ranch, photo provided by Harold Bergman

Harlow Seminar – July 20th, 2023, Wyoming Festival

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Harlow Special Seminar – July 19th and 20th, 2023

The Wyoming Festival—New Music in the Mountains, Chamber Music inspired by the Tetons

Time: Thursday, July 20th, 5:30pm MT, talk begins at 6:30pm MT
Location: UW-NPS Research Station at the AMK Ranch, in the Berol Lodge

A preview concert will also be presented on Wednesday, July 13. See below for details.

 

The Wyoming Festival is a 5-day new chamber music festival devoted to the creation of brand, new concert music inspired and informed by the wild and natural setting of Grand Teton National Park. The Festival is held at the AMK Ranch on the University of Wyoming’s National Park Service Research Station (uwnps.org) in Grand Teton National Park.

Wyoming Festival chamber artists-in-residence—world renown musicians, all of whom also play in the Grand Teton Music Festival Orchestra—are lead by violinist Holly Mulcahy and include Barbara Scowcroft, violin; Kayla William, viola; Steve Laven, cello; and Juan de Gomar, bassoon.

Through a competitive process, four music composition fellows (Shawna Wolf, DelShawn Taylor, Monica Mendoza, and Henrique Rabelo) have been invited to participate along with festival director and composer, Anne M. Guzzo (anneguzzo.com). Their music will be performed at the Teton County Library (*125 Virginian Lane, Jackson) in a free preview concert at 2:30pm on Wednesday, July 19, 2023 in the Ordway Auditorium B, and in concert at the Berol Lodge at the AMK Ranch July 20, 2023—5:30 BBQ and 6:30 concert. Join us as we creatively celebrate Grand Teton National Park.

Sponsors include mickey babcock—supporting the work of women composers; Lynn John, composer; and the UW-NPS Research Station.

 

Wyoming Festival director, Anne M. Guzzo is Wyoming–based composer who draws on science and nature, playful absurdism, and interdisciplinary collaboration to create music that has been described as alternately moving and humorous. Anne has recently collaborated with an entomologist, a range-land ecologist, vertical dancers, poets, and a microbiologist, among others.

Guzzo—an Emmy-nominated and internationally performed composer—is passionate about new music. She founded and directs the Wyoming Festival: New Music in the Mountains, a chamber music festival in Grand Teton National Park. Anne has been a fellow in residence with Ucross, Wyoming, the Whitely Center at Friday Harbor Labs, and the Brushcreek Residency in Saratoga, WY.

Her music has been heard on NPR’s Performance Today, on the Grand Teton Music Festival Inside the Music Series, the Bowling Green New Music Festival, and performed and recorded by the AdZel Duo, Wyoming Symphony, Voices of Change, the Colorado Chamber Orchestra, Allégresse trio, the Empyrean Ensemble, the Divan Consort, Third Angle, and several other ensembles and performers. Her chamber opera, Locust, was premiered at the National Museum of Wildlife Art in Jackson, Wyoming in the Fall of 2018, received its African premiere in Morocco in 2019, and was performed during the COP26 Climate Summit in Glasgow, Scotland. For more information, go to anneguzzo.com.

 

After hearing Scheherazade at an early age, Wyoming Festival Music Director, Holly Mulcahy fell in love with the violin and knew it would be her future. Since then, she has won multiple positions in symphonic orchestras from Richmond to Phoenix and is currently serving as concertmaster of the Wichita Symphony Orchestra and Chattanooga Symphony & Opera.

As an in-demand performer, Holly balances her orchestral duties with numerous concerto performances around the country. Passionate about performing living American composers’ works, Holly has been featured as soloist for concertos by Jennifer Higdon, Jim Stephenson, Philip Glass, and now a concerto being written for her by Hollywood film composer, George S. Clinton. This new concerto, The Rose of Sonora: a violin concerto in five scenes, is inspired by true stories about the lives of legendary women in the Old West and will take the listener on an epic western adventure of love and revenge.

Believing in music as a healing and coping source, Holly founded Arts Capacity, a charitable 501(c)3 which focuses on bringing live chamber music, art, artists, and composers to prisons. Arts Capacity addresses many emotional and character-building issues people face as they prepare for release into society.

Visit HollyMulcahy.com for more information.

 

 

Harlow Seminar – July 13th, 2023, Frank van Manen

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Harlow Seminar – July 13th, 2023, Frank van Manen

The remarkable recovery of the Yellowstone grizzly bear: biology, science, and management
 
Speaker: Frank T. van Manen, USGS
Time: Thursday, July 13th, 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

Few animals symbolize the wild landscapes of the American West more than the grizzly bear. The fate of grizzly bears in the Yellowstone region was similar to that of large predator species worldwide, with indiscriminate killing in the 1800s and into the mid-1900s, resulting in severe population declines and range contraction. The path to recovery of the Yellowstone grizzly bear population started 50 years ago at the controversial intersection of science, policy, and public opinion. Concerted and visionary conservation efforts reversed the declining population trends of the late 1970s. Based on long-term data collected by the Interagency Grizzly Bear Study Team (IGBST), we explore the history, current status, and future of grizzly bears in the Greater Yellowstone Ecosystem. The scientific data provide important insights into factors that contributed to the recovery, the resilience of this iconic animal, and the challenges that come with conservation success.

Bio

Frank T. van Manen is a Supervisory Research Wildlife Biologist with the U.S. Geological Survey in Bozeman, Montana and Team Leader of the Interagency Grizzly Bear Study Team (IGBST), a science consortium of federal, state, and tribal agencies established in 1973 to address research and monitoring needs regarding the Greater Yellowstone grizzly bear population. Frank earned a Ph.D. in Ecology from the University of Tennessee in 1994, researched black bears, red wolves, and Florida panthers in the southeastern U.S. during the 1990s and 2000s, and joined the IGBST in 2012. Frank has collaborated on bear research projects in Ecuador (Andean bears), Sri Lanka (sloth bears), China (giant panda), and Malaysia (sun bears). He was elected President of the International Association for Bear Research and Management from 2007 to 2013 and served on its Executive Council for 15 years.