Studies of cave & groundwater fauna of the Southwest and Rocky Mountain regions. This project is just getting underway, feel free to contact me if you are interested.
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Heading into a cave in the Colorado rockies with Colorado College students Jenna McDonald (left) and Carly Bonwell. We’re searching for rare, endemic groundwater amphipods.
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Colorado College students Carly Bonwell (left) and Jenna McDonald deploy a Surber sampler in a stream deep within a Colorado cave, in search of cave-adapted groundwater amphipods. Water temperature is about 3 C (37 F).
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A pseudoscorpion, Microcreagris grandis, in a western North American cave.
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Conducting cave bioinventories is fun but slow work!