Since I am wonderfully and errantly spending my youth and middle age working outside on a pleasing variety of field and lab projects at the Rocky Mountain Biological Laboratory and other field sites in the Rocky Mountains, I have many more acknowledgments than publications! Thanks to everyone for asking me to be a part of your crew and thanking me publicly for it! :-)

Since my family will ask, I'll explain an acknowledgment for those who don't know. Most scientific journals allow the authors of a paper to include a list of people who contributed time or thought to the research project yet were less involved than the primary authors. Most of my acknowledgments are for research assistant or technician duties such as field sampling before or after the primary authors arrived in Gothic. Some experiments needed planning or training, then lots of people to work long hours at the beginning of an experiment and several long days at the end. Many sites have sensors and dataloggers that need attention at certain intervals or removal before winter. Follow up lab work, shipping samples overnight, the necessary and tedious sample preparation and processing or even more elaborate procedures with a variety of instruments are all part of inquiries into the workings of the natural world. Carrying equipment out of the backcountry and cleaning up at the end of a project is an important task too. Communication with researchers about the data we've collected and sending photos is another favorite part of my work. The results are worth it, see all the publications below :-) While fieldwork is the best part, I enjoy a variety of scientific endeavors :-) Look below the photo for a list of papers.