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NSF Award(s) DEB-9810218 , DEB-0423662. (View all sites)

Niwot Ridge (40deg.3'N. 105deg.36'W.) is located approximately 35 km west of Boulder, Colorado, with the entire study site lying above 3000 m elevation. There is a cirque glacier (Arikaree Glacier [~90K photo and caption]), extensive alpine tundra, a variety of glacial landforms, glacial lakes and moraines, cirques and talus slopes, patterned ground, and permafrost. The research area is bounded on the west by the Continental Divide, with runoff on the two sides being destined for the Colorado and Mississippi Rivers.
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Site Contacts
Principal Investigator: Mark Williams
Primary Contact: Mark Williams
Information Mgr: Todd Ackerman
Education Contact: Diane McKnight
Address:
1560 30th Street
UCB 450
Boulder, CO 80309 USA
Phone: 303-492-4771
Fax: 303-492-6388
Email: lternwt@colorado.edu
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Site History
Niwot Ridge was established as a site in the NSF sponsored Long-Term Ecological Research Program in 1980.
Research Topics
Patterns and controls of nutrient cycling; trace gas dynamics, plant primary productivity and species composition; geomorphology, and paleoecology.
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Site Coordinates
Lat: +39.993
Long. -105.375
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