For most visitors, an eight-day float down the Green River in Dinosaur National Monument is an opportunity to get away from the daily grind. But for some lucky scientists, it’s a part of the job description.
The latest episode of the “Outside Science (inside parks)” series follows a group of scientists tracking how the entire river ecosystem along the Colorado-Utah border is changing over time, particularly below the Flaming Gorge Dam.
Every month in 2016, the “Outside Science (inside parks)” video series showcased ways “the next generation is getting involved in park science.” This is the 12th episode released by the National Park Service and produced by students from Colorado State University. Previous videos chronicle:
- A BioBlitz at Hawai‘i Volcanoes National Park
- Collecting dragonflies to study mercury levels at Great Sand Dunes National Park and Rocky Mountain National Park
- Red tides at Cape Cod National Seashore
- Baby turtles at Gulf Islands National Seashore
- A backcountry hiking and photography program at Denali National Park and Preserve
- Counting cacti at Saguaro National Park
- Vegetation mapping at Everglades National Park
- Cave ecology and geology at Buffalo National River
- Monitoring underwater communication at Glacier Bay National Park and Preserve
- Searching for fossils at Point Reyes National Seashore
- Out-of-this-world landscapes at Craters of the Moon National Monument
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