White Mountain Research Center

The White Mountains contain many stone structures related to sheepherding in the early 20 th century.

In this Q&A-style contribution to the anniversary volume, Owens Valley Paiute (Nüümü) and Shoshone (Newe) who work on environmental matters briefly share about their homeland and experiences. Worldwide, scientists and Indigenous peoples now acknowledge the benefits of building relationships and working together to address environmental and resource challenges, and this opportunity exists in the Eastern Sierra.

Arthropod assemblages in wetlands were far more diverse and abundant than in fell-fields across all taxa; vegetation structure and abiotic factors were both important predictors of assemblage structure.

Air pollution research has been conducted intermittently at the White Mountain Research Center since its founding, and efforts since 2009 have focused primarily upon continuous, long-term measurements of surface-level ozone (O3 ), which is present at elevated concentrations due to the high elevation and transport from upwind source regions.

Clem Nelson, a renowned paleontologist and accomplished field geologist, spent over fifty years engaged in mapping and interpretation of early animal evolution in the CambrianPrecambrian rocks of the White-Inyo mountains.

Treeline is increasing and is dominated by limber pine ‘leapfrogging’ over the more common Great Basin bristlecone pine; at the tops of mountains, there has been surprising climatic heterogeneity over short distances which may have led to the observed limited change in species richness over about 20 years.

Marmot group members vary in their aggression with mixed consequences, such that agonistic skew results in groups producing fewer pups, but with relatively more offspring by agonistic males.

For twenty years, White Mountain Research Center has provided essential logistical and collaborative support for an international program (GLobal Observation Research Initiative in Alpine Environments; GLORIA) that assesses climate change effects on alpine (above upper treeline) flora.

This paper summarizes the findings of two recent archaeological studies that identified remnant Nüümü (Paiute) irrigation systems emanating from Horton and Pine Creeks in Kwinaba (Round Valley), California.

Columns in the Devils Postpile, eastern California, occur in hexagonal domains stitched together by chains and clusters of pentagons and heptagons, a geometrical pattern, also found in honeycombs and graphene, that forms a centroidal Voronoi tessellation.