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open Lab notebooks

Town Peterson is a firm adherent to the principles of open science. In this regard, whenever possible, he maintains lab notebooks openly, such that they are easily accessible and consultable by anyone interested in the analyses that he and his colleagues are conducting. 

This project uses the amazing series of photographs taken by William Henry Jackson and others in the 1870s as a "deep-time reference point," in tandem with more recent photos, to assess the velocity of treeline upward advance in the Rocky Mountains.

This project takes advantage of an amazing collection of historical photos to attempt to "predict" which areas that were grassland a century ago have undergone afforestation, versus which have remained in grassland. 

This project is an exploration of the distributions and distributional changes of two species of squirrels across the Great Plains: Sciurus carolinensis and S. niger. Both are likely expanding their ranges in the Great Plains, but the dynamics appear to contrast.

This project aims to create cross-sectional contrasts of "old" versus "new" forest tracts in Kansas and Oklahoma, permitting controlled comparisons of the effects of forest age on different biotic elements (e.g., ticks, birds, whatever).

This project consists of a broad effort to understand temporal trends (1980s to present) in high-mountain vegetation distributions. We are using Landsat data captured via Google Earth, and we are attempting to characterize broad, global scale patterns of changes in vegetation in treeline zones.

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