Each spring, the niwot ridge snow survey ushers in a new season of fieldwork
Situated in the Alpine tundra in the hills above Boulder, Colorado, Niwot Ridge’s Tundra Lab is among the highest research laboratories in the continental United States. The lab is a squat, hardened, concrete structure perched on stilts on the side of a mountain, more military bunker than college building. Yet the concrete semi-circle is just a gateway, a stopping point to towering peaks, six permanent glaciers and a sprawling valley of lakes that comprise the . When I visit in April, the landscape is a patchwork of glaring white snow with gold-flecked tundra peeking through.
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