U.S. LTER Network  Niwot Ridge/Green Lakes Valley  near Boulder, Colorado

 
Niwot Ridge/Green Lakes Valley Slide Show
Niwot Ridge/Green 
Lakes Valley Slide 
Show
Institutional affiliations: Institute of Arctic and Alpine Research, University of Colorado. 

Principal biome/main communities: Alpine tundra. Fellfield; meadow; herbaceous and shrub tundras; cliffs and talus; glacial lakes; streams and wetlands. 

Research topics: Patterns and controls of nutrient cycling; trace gas dynamics, plant primary productivity and species composition; geomorphology, and paleoecology. 

Site Coordinates:  40.1, -105.6


 
 

Site Principal Investigators
NELSON CAINE  TIMOTHY SEASTEDT  CAROL WESSMAN 
University of Colorado INSTAAR 
Campus Box 450 
Boulder, CO 80309-0450 
303/492-5053 
nCaine@LTERnet.edu
University of Colorado 
INSTAAR 
Campus Box 450 
Boulder, CO 80309-0450 
303/492-3302 
tSeastedt@LTERnet.edu
University of Colorado 
CIRES 
Campus Box 449 
Boulder, CO 80309-0449 
303/492-1139 
cWessman@LTERnet.edu
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