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/

Special Event! July 20, 2024, WYOBIRD

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

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

"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

2023 Seminar Series Recordings Available!

2023 Harlow Seminar Series recordings available!

Dear Friends of the Station,

 

I want to start by extending a belated but heartfelt thank you to all the folks who braved the rain to make it to our final seminar of the season on August 3. We moved the food to the screened porch and folks crowded around the table in the conference room and balanced plates on their laps in the seminar room to eat. I so appreciate everyone for being game enough to work with the weather. It gave a cozy atmosphere for Dr. Houseal’s wonderful talk.

 

Speaking of our 2023 Harlow Summer Seminar Series, I’m excited to let you know that the recordings for most of our events this summer have been posted to our website. You can find them on the Events page, with a link to the recording under each seminar listing. I do need to say that the quality of the recordings isn’t up to the standard we hope to achieve in the future but we wanted to prioritize making them accessible as soon as possible. We hope that you’ll still be able to get a good sense of the wonderful events in this year’s series. We are working hard on improving our technology for next year, including better audio and video via Zoom, both for folks watching the events live and for the recordings. In the meantime, please look through the list and see if there are any events you might’ve missed that you’d like to watch or perhaps an event you’d like to share with a friend.

 

The end of the seminar series and the start of the school year marks a bit of an inflection point in our season. The station is still open and welcoming researchers but many of our long-term summer residents have headed off to their next event and we’re already missing them. As anyone who has lived or worked at a field station knows, there’s a tremendous sense of community that can emerge, which is rewarding and comforting especially when you’re far away from home. There are weird jokes (often something someone exhausted said after a too long day), amazing recipes (often assembled from whatever was left in the back of the fridge before getting to go grocery shopping), and many other bright moments that bring field station folks together. Several of my bright moments from August included chocolate chip raspberry cookies made by one of our NPS interns, seeing a valley garter snake (rare in Grand Teton National Park!) with two of our researchers and some of the contractors restoring Berol Lodge, and hearing the rain drumming on the roof during one of our latest storms. In the next few weeks, we’re looking forward to welcoming back some researchers who were with us earlier this season as well as some new faces.

 

I hope you’re all well!

 

Best,

Hilary