MIC Lecture Series: Climate Change in Utah’s High Mountains by Scott Hotaling

Climate Change in Utah’s High Mountains: Implications for Natural Resources and Biodiversity by Scott Hotaling

Climate change is proceeding rapidly at high elevations, leading to dramatic changes in snowpack and streamflow, with implications for natural resources and biodiversity. In this talk, Dr. Scott Hotaling, an Assistant Professor in the Department of Watershed Sciences at Utah State University, will discuss how Utah is changing, what these changes mean for natural resources in the region—including aquatic biodiversity—and an overlooked but potentially important resource for Utah under climate change: rock glaciers. Rock glaciers are masses of debris-covered ice that are common in the region (including in the La Sals!) and are resistant to climate change-induced ice recession.

Dr. Scott Hotaling is a new Canyonlands Natural History Association Discovery Pool recipient!

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