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News articles, interviews, press releases, and other narratives about RMBL and the Gunnison Basin.
29 stories · Profile · 2020–2029
Daniel T. Blumstein
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Historic Mount Everest expedition life-changing for Atlanta doctor
OB/GYN’s book shares how risks helped bring out her true self.
Atlanta doctor recalls historic Mount Everest expedition in inspirational memoir
That victory dance, on the roof of the world, took chutzpah....
Billick to retire from RMBL next year
After nearly 25 years, Ian Billick will step down from his position as the executive director of the Gothic’s Rocky Mountain Biological Laboratory (RMBL) next summer. Billick took his first &hell
The value of data Citizen scientist has recorded weather in Rockies for 50 years
Billy Barr skis Wednesday, March 13, 2024, in Gothic, Colo. So-called "citizen scientists" like Barr have
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GOTHIC, Colo. - Four miles from the nearest plowed road high in Colorado's Rocky Mountains, a 73year-old man with a billowing gray beard and two replaced hips trudged through his front yard to measure
HIS SNOWFALL DATA IS PILING UP NEW HIPS ARE HELPING CITIZEN-SCIENTIST KEEP HIS 50-YEAR
GOTHIC, Colo. - Four miles from the nearest plowed road high in Colorado's Rocky Mountains, a 73-year-old man with a billowing gray beard and two replaced hips trudged through his front yard to measur
Citizen scientist measured Rockies snowfall for 50 years. Two new hips help him keep going
GOTHIC, Colo. (AP) — Four miles from the nearest plowed road high in Colorado’s Rocky Mountains, a 73-yearold man with a billowing gray beard and two replaced hips trudged through his front yard to me
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MTSU Student declared finalist in environmental science leadership program, eligible for fellowship
Story by Maddy Williams | Contributing Writer A Middle Tennessee State University student was declared a finalist in the third year of the Scholars for Conservation Leadership Program, created by the
Using wildflowers to predict the future
As fall crept closer, clouds shrouded David Inouye’s wooden cabin, hidden on a hill above Gothic. The aspen trees had begun their annual transition, painting the vegetation underneath the mountain’s c
Profile: Rick Horn
Buzzing with excitement: Sofia Dartnell PO '22 awarded esteemed Gates Cambridge scholarship
Sofia Dartnell PO '22 won one of 80 Gates Cambridge Scholarships, earning her a full-cost scholarship to the University of Cambridge to pursue a PhD in zoology. (Courtesy: Sofia Dartnell) Many people
Former CBCS student creates podcast about activism
Wintry winds of change
For almost 50 years, naturalist billy barr has risen early in the morning and recorded the weather from his isolated home in Gothic, on the East River northwest of Crested Butte. barr, now in his seve
He spent almost 50 years alone at 10,000 feet
GOTHIC, Colo. As world leaders gathered across the globe this month to discuss a climate crisis that is rapidly heating the Earth, Billy Barr, 71, paused outside his mountainside cabin to measure snow
