Research Publications

The Continental Divide Research Learning Center (CDRLC) shares research results through a variety of media including summarizing projects in a one-page format, linking to websites by scientists conducting research in the park, holding research conferences, arranging illustrated talks by park researchers, and writing articles for internal and external audiences.

Information about the CDRLC

Climate

Air and Water

Geology

History and Social Science

Plants

Wildlife

 

Information About the CDRLC

Pathways to Parks: Eagle Rock Internship Program

Research Conference Abstracts (2012)...coming soon.

Overview of the CDRLC

Research in Rocky

Funding the Adaptive Reuse of McGraw Ranch

Historic Preservation in Rocky: Restoring the McGraw Ranch

 

Climate

Fire History and Climate Change

Climate Change and Prehistoric Human Migration

Climate Change in Rocky Mountain National Park: Preservation in the Face of Uncertainty

Climate Final Report: An Integrated Assessment of the Effects of Climate Change on Rocky Mountain National Park and its Gateway Community: Interactions of Multiple Stressors (EPA) (HTML)

CIRMOUNT Consortium for Integrated Climate Research in Western Mountains (USFS) (HTML)

Rock Glacier Response to Climate Change

Subalpine Forest Fires and Climatic Variation

Temperature Trends

 

Air and Water

Effects of the Grand Ditch on Riparian Areas in the Kawuneeche Valley

Nitrogen Deposition Correlated with Changes in Lake Organisms

Plant Response to Ozone

Trees Respond to Nitrogen Deposition

Unusual Dark Soil Layers at Loch Vale

Water Blitz

Wind Research

 

Geology

Rocky Mountain National Park Geologic Resource Evaluation Report a forty page summary of the park's geologic setting and issues prepared by the NPS's Geologic Resources Division

Cleaning Up the Eugenia Mine

The Formation of the Never Summer Range

 

History and Social Science

Stone Artifacts and Prehistoric Human Migration

Old Voices and Sacred Sites

Dr. Beatrice Willard's Alpine Tundra Research Plots

Backcountry Users: Who? Why? What?

Climbing the Longs Peak Keyhole Route

Historic Mining Towns

Historic Trails

Marketing the Mountains: An Environmental History of Tourism

Prehistoric Human Migration

The Skyline of the World: The Design of Trail Ridge Road

Social Conservation in the Civilian Conservation Corps

A Vast Moving Caravan: Roads and Tourism

Factors Affecting the Wilderness Experience

 

Plants

Age Distribution of Aspen

Effects of Elk on Aspen Growth

Sweet Clover in Montane Plant Communities

Browsing, Fire and Montane Shrublands

Effects of Beaver Dams on Riparian Areas

Effects of Elk Herbivory

Evaluation of Revegetation

Fire Frequency and Intensity in Ponderosa Pine Forests

Insect Control of the Invasive Toadflax

Restoring Cheatgrass-Invaded Sites

Slime Molds

Studying the Mighty Canada Thistle Rust Mite

Subalpine Forest Fire Regimes

 

Wildlife

Beaver-Elk Relationships

Bear Hibernation Sites

Bear Nutrition

Black Bear Population and Stability

Bighorn Sheep Population Genetics

Bighorn Sheep Population

Bighorn Sheep vs. Traffic

Bull Elk, Pavarottis of the Animal World

Cutthroat Trout Translocation Success

Distribution and Habitat Use of Martens

Elk and Moose Exclusion Fence

Elk Body Condition

Fish Effects on Zooplankton

Moose Distribution and Population

Moose Summer Diet

Pikas In Peril at Rocky Mountain National Park

Pikas in Peril at Great Sand Dunes National Park

Where Ticks Hang Out