{"id":63671,"date":"2015-07-07T09:27:35","date_gmt":"2015-07-07T16:27:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dev-clm-blog.pantheonsite.io\/?p=63671"},"modified":"2015-07-07T09:27:35","modified_gmt":"2015-07-07T16:27:35","slug":"unexpected-weather","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.clminternship.org\/?p=63671","title":{"rendered":"Unexpected Weather"},"content":{"rendered":"

The past month has been spent analyzing our annual vegetation data from juvenile Desert Tortoise sites, and we’ve come a long way! We have also been searching across most of Utah and some of Colorado (Colorado Plateau) for potential post-oil well vegetation monitoring sites! This new project is a departure from our previous work, and will be a nice getaway from the heat in the Mojave! This has involved a tremendous amount of filtering through GIS data and looking at satellite imagery for promising sites. The criteria involve clusters of sites, each containing: sites where Artemisia tridentata<\/em> and\/or Coleogyne ramosissima<\/em> grow (or would, if an oil well hadn’t been established), a site from each decade from 1950-2000 (when the oil well was plugged and abandoned), and that each cluster fall within certain climatic constraints. This is no small task when faced with over a thousand potential sites! But it has been a great way to learn more about GIS and get a look at post-restoration oil well from the air!<\/p>\n

In other news, the weather has been incredibly unpredictable, with temperatures climbing well above 110 F and incredible thunderstorms at the same time! Incredible precipitation events have led to flash floods and sights like this dry lake bed near Primm, NV, which is not-so-dry anymore!<\/p>\n

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Meanwhile the perennials are sending off seed, and the summer annuals are waiting for their moment to sprout from this monsoon weather!<\/p>\n

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