The Conversation, February 16, 2026
Warming winters are disrupting the hidden world of fungi – the result can shift mountain grasslands to scrub
5280, January, 2026
Winter Finally Comes for Gothic’s billy barr
Sierra Club Foundation, October 13, 2025
The Future of Conservation: Indigenous Ways Meet Western Science
The Guardian, August 27, 2025
Wild bees visit different flowers to balance diet, study shows
Popular Science, May 3, 2025
Visit one of the world’s most prolific research stations in Colorado mountains
Rocky Mountain PBS, July 15, 2024
Rocky Mountain Biological Laboratory trains the next generation of scientists
Scientific American, September 17, 2021
During a Rodent Quadrathlon, Researchers Learn That Ground Squirrels Have Personalities – Scientific American
CNN, July 20, 2021
Adorable animal takes ‘extraordinary’ 600-mile trip – CNN Video
Nature, July 16, 2021
Massive DNA ‘Borg’ structures perplex scientists (nature.com)
Environmental Monitor, January 16, 2019
Gothic Rumble: The Rocky Mountain Biological Laboratory
PHYS.ORG, December 18, 2018
Dive-bombing for love: Male hummingbirds dazzle females with a highly synchronized display
National Public Radio, July 23rd, 2018
Spring is Springing Sooner, Throwing Natures Rhythms out of Whack
The Associated Press June 19th, 2018
Looking for Signs of Global Warming? They’re all around you.
Press Release, February 22, 2018
RMBL explores year-round campus in Mt. Crested Butte
RMBL’s billy barr on CBS This Morning, April 21, 2017
billy barr
Teton Gravity Research, April 10, 2017
Bucket List: Staying at Crested Butte’s Maroon Hut
5280, April, 2017
Q&A: billy barr
Joint Genome Institute, April 3, 2017
Speciation driven by alleles adapted to local conditions
NewsDeeply, March 21, 2017
The conundrum of why arctic caribou are disappearing
KUSA Online, February 24, 2017
Hiking eight miles of snow to get the story
KUSA Online, February 24, 2017
billy barr, the hermit of abandoned mining town Gothic
The Crested Butte News, February 22, 2017
Fundraising pledges lined up for Trampe deal completion
The Huffington Post, February 9, 2017
This drone can do the work of honeybees
Harvard Gazette, February 8, 2017
Herbert W Levi, 93
Singletracks, February 7, 2017
Winter bikepacking, backcountry hut-style
The Washington Post, February 2, 2017
Groundhog Day is so silly. But as a groundhog scientist, I love it anyway.
Houston Chronicle, February 2, 2017
Groundhog Day, the least scientific of holidays
Outside Magazine, January 30, 2017
How billy barr’s snowpack records helped shape climate science
Huffington Post, January 27, 2017
A Groundhog Day lesson about fake news
The Daily Mail, January 23, 2017
At home with a ‘hermit’
The Gazette, January 22, 2017
Colorado mountain man carves niche measuring snow
The Atlantic, January 12, 2017
The hermit who inadvertently shaped climate-change science
The Crested Butte News, January 11, 2017
Profile: Kevin Donovan
National Geographic, Short Film Showcase, January 7, 2017
He spent 40 years in the woods, and now scientists love him
The Crested Butte News, January 5, 2017
Profile: Amy Ellwein, Dr. Rock
Daily Camera, December 29, 2016
False hellbore uses temperature cues to trigger sexual and asexual reproduction two years out
The Crested Butte News, December 22, 2016
Short climate film features local billy barr
Denverite, December 21, 2016
An archive of pressed flowers (and weeds) at the Denver Botanic Gardens reflects changing temperatures
Science Daily, December 15, 2016
Warming could slow upslope migration of trees
Colorado Public News, December 14, 2016
Watch how billy barr tracks the snow near Crested Butte for climate data gold
Slate, December 7, 2016
The Snow Guardian
Global Wildlife Conservation, December 1, 2016
Before Two Degrees: Diagnosing the Pollinator Problem
The Washington Post, November 30, 2016
Scientists have long feared this ‘feedback’ to the climate system. Now they say it’s happening.
Aspen Public Radio, November 22, 2016
Managing the wild masses: permit system takes shape
Popular Science Online, October 11, 2016
Citizen Scientist: Searching for Heroes and Hope in an Age of Extinction (book excerpt)
KUSA Storytellers, August 20, 2016
Marmot drama in the Rocky Mountains
RMBL Press Release, August 1, 2016
Local students receive prestigious National Science Foundation funding
RMBL Press Release, July 10, 2016
National Science Foundation and Department of Energy invest another $3+ million in RMBL science over the next five years
RMBL Press Release, July 1, 2016
Magic combination of long-term research, research training, and great science leads to insights into a changing world
Science News, June 30, 2016
Warming alters mountain plant’s sex ratios
UCI News, June 30, 2016
Climate change’s effect on Rocky Mountain plant is driven by sex
Boulder Daily Camera, June 29, 2016
July Nature Almanac: monument plants roll the dice on immortality
The Durango Herald, June 25, 2016
Fort Lewis College Professor to visit Greenland, Antarctica
Phys.org, June 14, 2016
Sunflower pollen protects bees from parasites
Crested Butte News, March 16, 2016
Low winter snowpack totals concern water users
The New York Times, February 26, 2016
Decline of Pollinators Poses Threat to World Food Supply, Report Says
RMBL Press Release, February 26, 2016
RMBL Scientists Contribute to Understanding of Global Food Supply
Crested Butte News, February 11, 2016
Forest Service considering closure of dispersed camping near Gothic
The Nature Conservancy, February, 2016
Mexican Cut: The Nature Conservancy’s First Colorado Preserve
The New York Times, January 24, 2016
Precipitous Rents in Ski Country Push Workers to Edges
Science Line, January 17, 2016
For the love of immigrant weeds
Summit Daily, January 9, 2016
Mountain Town News: Connecting the dots in 2015 among mountain towns of the West
The Daily Sentinel, December 5, 2015
A ‘madhouse’ near Crested Butte
Colorado Public Radio, October 6, 2015
Tourism Threatens Research At A Prestigious Lab Outside Crested Butte
Crested Butte News, September 24, 2015
RMBL hosts scientists from around the world
RMBL Press Release, September, 2015
Global Network Of Mountain Observatories (GNOMO)
Book by Ellen F. Dobbin – 2015
RuMBLings: A History and Highlights of the Rocky Mountain Biological Laboratory
Glamour, April 8, 2015
Top 10 College Women 2015: Vanessa Alejandro, 22
Science, August 6, 2015
The next century of ecology
The New York Times, March 19, 2015
Karole Armitage’s new dance work traces steps for a greener path
Crested Butte News, March 18, 2015
Forest Service turns down Mountain Express offer to service Judd Falls
High Country News, March 16, 2015
The case of the snotty streams
The Daily Californian, February 12, 2015
Study finds that carbon feedback in ecosystems may increase global warming
The Guardian Online, February 9, 2015
A 23-year Experiment Finds Surprising Global Warming Impacts Already Underway
Colorado Public Radio, February 3, 2015
Flood recovery, Aspen chalets, other efforts noted in preservation awards
Fox News Science, February 3, 2015
When ant-eating bears arrive, a native plant thrives
Science Daily, January 22, 2015
Snack attack: Bears munch on ants and help plants grow
RMBL Press Release, December, 2014
RMBL to receive award for historic preservation projects in Gothic
Newsweek, September 16, 2014
The meteor that wiped out the dinosaurs changes Earth’s plant life too
High Country News, September 2, 2014
Zen and the art of wildflowers
Symmetry, August 19, 2104
A Whole Earth Approach
RMBL Press Release, August, 2014
RMBL Introduces High School Students to Field Biology
ScienceNews, July 11, 2014
How Species Will, or Won’t, Manage in a Warming World
Scientific American, May 8, 2014
“Rock Snot” has been native to much of the world for thousands of years
U.S. News & World Report, May 7, 2014
Researchers Trace “Rock Snot” to Native Species
Stanford School of Earth, Energy & Environmental Sciences newsletter, March 14, 2014
Understanding how mountains and rivers make life possible