Images

Dan Fagre on Sperry Glacier Sperry Glacier, 08/23/15, in Glacier National Park.

A researcher on Sperry Glacier navigates to the next mass balance survey location.

A scientist is working to collect alpine insects by picking through moss below tiny, cold, alpine streams. This spot was below a small seep on a slope above a tributary to the Dry Fork, North of the Two Medicine area in Glacier National Park. 

This is an image taken in 2015 of Sperry Glacier in Glacier National Park. Accoriding to data released by the USGS, the warming climate has dramatically reduced the size of 39 glaciers in Montana since 1966, some by as much as 85 percent.

Ripe huckleberries 

laboratory technician waiting for PCR analysis to be completed on an eDNA sample

Capturing juvenile bull trout by electroshocking Logging Creek and then transporting them in a backpack up the trail to Grace Lake.

Thrush feeding babies.

Seining a heavily bullfrog populated side channel at Two Moon County Park in Billings, MT.

Sampling for aquatic invasive species in the Greater Yellowstone Area.

NEXRAD (NEXt generation RADar) is also known as Weather Surveillance Radar, 1988 Doppler (WSR-88D). Pictured is the tower that houses the antennae inside the radome (white sphere).

Logging Lake, Glacier National Park.

Red spotted toad.

Sampling for aquatic invasive species in the Greater Yellowstone Area.

An invasive American bullfrog with tracking device.  

Head shot of the Meltwater Stonefly.

Bull elk in Grand Teton National Park, Wyoming.

Looking out the mouth of Reynolds Glacier in Glacier National Park. Glacier National Park is iconic of the combined impacts of climate change and snow and ice loss – over 80 percent of the park’s glaciers have been lost since the mid-19th century.

Red huckleberry bushes in fall in Glacier National Park

An American pika sits on a talus slope.