Jess Steketee retweeted
So grateful to attend the Arctic Climate Change and Community Collborations Workshop with folks from @IARC_Alaska & @ArcticTogether! Learned a lot about building relationships and bringing who you are and where you’re going to the table! – at Fairbanks, AK
First paper first paper first paper!!! Awesome collaboration between @TeamVole, ArcLTER, and the Rocha lab on tundra voles and post-wildfire vegetation recovery.
New in @ESAEcology:
Small herbivores with big impacts: Tundra voles (Microtus oeconomus) alter post-fire ecosystem dynamics
doi.org/10.1002/ecy.3689
With #OpenData in @EDIgotdata
@JessSteketee @rubyanho @TeamVole @av_rocha @NSF
#Arctic
#Herbivory
#Wildfire
#NSFFunded
ALT Differences in rodent herbivore density and activity at the burned and unburned sites. (a) Tundra vole captures per 100 trap nights over 4 years (spanning 7-12 years post-fire). Differences in abundance between sites were significant. (b) Average rodent sign (activities, e.g., latrines, nests) 12 years post-fire. Differences in activities between sites were significant
Looking for one more technician to help out on our arctic small mammal project this summer!
wfscjobs.tamu.edu/jobs/small…
Jess Steketee retweeted
🚨🚨Hiring Alert🚨🚨
Interested in Arctic field research?
Toolik Field Station is hiring a full-time, year-round Environmental Data Center Research Technician.
Apply by 2 Jan 2022. DM @arctic_ubetula with any questions.
careers.alaska.edu/en-us/job…
ALT EDC technician Dani Aguirre uses an augur to drill into the ice over Toolik Lake in early winter.
ALT An EDC technician, wearing a bug shirt, collects environmental data with a handhelp instrument in the summer as mosquitos surround them. Blue skies and blooming Eriophorum vaginatum fill the background.
Last week this bear wandered close to town for some scraps left out on the ice and gave us all a really nice look! Photo by Earl Johnson. @ Utqiaġvik instagram.com/p/CRuj_xKDQIWN…
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Jess Steketee retweeted
The voles are having a good year here @toolikfieldstation. Our team has already started stocking our fences with voles, and will be starting our mark-recapture campaign tonight. We do mark-recapture to get vole population estimates for our study areas.
Jess Steketee retweeted
Where do high arctic #lemmings live during winter?? The locations of 4204 collared lemming winter nests (since 1996) from #Zackenberg #Greenland have been analyzed by @NielsMSchmidt et al. @GEM_Arctic @ZERO74N herbivory.lbhi.is/2021/02/25…
Currently hiring summer field technicians to help out on our @TeamVole small mammal trapping project in northern Alaska. Summer #5!
wfscjobs.tamu.edu/jobs/small…