In late June, Andrew joined “Team Snoddy 2025” (Mariah, Austin, and REU Delaney Watkins) on a week-long trip to the Rocky Mountain Biological Laboratory in Gothic, CO, to conduct research around Gothic (top photo) and on the nearby Snodgrass Mountain. The weather was perfect, and well-suited to replacing sensors, rewiring battery boxes, downloading dendrometer data, measuring soil CO2/CH4 fluxes (bottom photo, showing Delaney mastering the LI-COR 7810) , and inventorying trees. The tallest tree measured was a 34.5 m Engelmann spruce!
