A sieve holds a sample of rocks and stream invertebrates

researchers pause to look at a small salamander

Undergraduate Mercedes Allen with a small pacific giant salamander

student and teacher researchers use a serber sampler to collect stream invertebrates

RET Matt Retterath collects stream invertebrate samples into a bag

Graduate student Tatiana Latorre inspects sticky traps set out to capture insects that fly along and across the streambed

Graduate student Tatiana Latorre inspects sticky traps set out to capture insects that fly along and across the streambed

Graduate student Tatiana Latorre inspects sticky traps set out to capture insects that fly along and across the streambed

RET Ryan Herlands with a serber sampler

Graduate student Tatiana Latorre inspects sticky traps set out to capture insects that fly along and across the streambed

Teachers examine stream invertebrates

This tree's tag number identifies it as part of a long-term study on tree growth and mortality

Graduate student Tatiana Latorre moves through her sample plots at the HJ Andrews Experimental Forest

Undergraduate and teacher researchers pause to pose with a small salamander

Graduate student Tatiana Latorre, undergrad Mercedes Allen, and teacher pose with a small salamander

The whole crew stops for a picture

The whole crew stops for a picture

Graduate student Tatiana Latorre and undergraduate student Mercedes Allen stop for a picture

The whole crew stops for a picture with all of their field equipment.

Researchers set out a grid and prepare the area for transplants of moss

Researchers set out a grid and prepare the area for transplants of moss

Research for Undergraduates (REU) student Meghan Lake prepares an area for moss transplant and study

Researchers set out a grid and prepare the area for transplants of moss

Matts of moss are cut with clippers to a standard size, outlined by a post-it note

A square of moss ready to be transplanted

A stand in the H.J. Andrews Experimental Forest

A square of moss ready to be transplanted

Research for Undergraduates (REU) student Meghan Lake assesses the grid and protocol for the study

Research for Undergraduates (REU) student Meghan Lake assesses the grid and protocol for the study

Researcher readies moss for transplant

A square of moss ready to be transplanted

Research for Undergraduates (REU) student Meghan Lake assesses the grid and protocol for the study

Research for Undergraduates (REU) student Meghan Lake assesses the grid and protocol for the study

Researchers set out a grid and prepare the area for transplants of moss

Researchers set out a grid and prepare the area for transplants of moss

Moss laid out in the transplant plot

Moss collection for reciprical transplant project

A square of moss ready to be transplanted

Moss laid out in the transplant plot and grid

A magification loupe assists with moss identification

A stand in the H.J. Andrews Experimental Forest

Researchers Meaghan Lake and Sofia Green

Researchers in a plot selected for a moss transplant study

Researchers Meghan Lake and Sofia Green set out a grid and prepare the area for transplants of moss

Undergraduate student Hailey Bond collects samples from the insect emergence traps.

Researchers process fish and salamanders captured during a 3-pass depeletion electrofishing survey in a tributary of McRae Creek.

Coastal giant salamanders in a recovery tank before they are released back into the stream.

Cutthroat trout being measured at the proccessing station before being released back into the stream.

Researchers process fish and salamanders captured during a 3-pass depeletion electrofishing survey in a tributary of McRae Creek.

Researchers process fish and salamanders captured during a 3-pass depeletion electrofishing survey in a tributary of McRae Creek.

PIT tag and elastomer tag gear used at a processing station to measure growth.

Hailey Bond (left), Madelyn Maffia (center), and Dana Warren (right) electrofish a small pool in a tributary of McRae Creek.

Coastal giant salmanders from a tributary of McRae Creek.

Upper section of the low-flow reach prior to diverting half of the flow.

Middle section of the low-flow reach prior to diverting half of the flow.

Middle section of the low-flow reach prior to diverting half of the flow.

Middle section of the low-flow reach prior to diverting half of the flow.

Lower section of the low-flow reach prior to diverting half of the flow.

Empty lines running along the bank of the low-flow reach prior to the start of the experimental setup.

Structurally complex pool habitat in the low-flow reach.

Empty lines running along the bank of the low-flow reach prior to the start of the experimental setup.

Section of the low-flow reach prior to the set up of the flow diversion.

Bottom of the fishing section in the low flow reach prior to the start of the experimental setup.

Coil system used to passively warm diverted water before it re-enters the increased temperature reach.

Researchers set up the flow diversion that diverts approximately 50% of the streamflow and creates the reduced flow (low-flow) reach.

Researchers set up the flow diversion that diverts approximately 50% of the streamflow and creates the reduced flow (low-flow) reach.

Water travels through black tubing that is exposed to the sunlight to passively warm it and then re-enters the stream in the experimentally warmed (+Temp) reach.

Sampling fish and salamanders in a tributary of McRae Creek.

Graduate student Maddie Maffia and Professor Dana Warren attempt to electrofish under a deep undercut bank.

An upstream net that closes the system during electrofishing prevents the movement of fish and salmanders into and out of the system.

A terrestrial coastal giant salamanders.

Sampling fish and salamanders in a tributary of McRae Creek.

Sampling fish and salamanders in a tributary of McRae Creek.

Sampling fish and salamanders in a tributary of McRae Creek.

A young pacific giant salamander in the a tupperwear before being weighed.

Hailey Bond collects length measurements of a salmander.

Dana Warren collects the weight of a salamander.

Undergraduate student Adrian Puga records data as fish and salmanders are processed.

Undergraduate student Hailey Bond with an electofishing backpack.

Diverted water being carried through a large plastic line in the low-flow reach.

Outcrop on Lookout Mountain from 50 meters up in old-growth Douglas Fir

Mariposa Lily (Calochortus) on Frissell Ridge

Dusk light looking east from Frissell Ridge

View of old-growth Douglas Fir from neighboring tree

Sunrise over a ridge from 80 meters in the canopy of an old-growth Douglas Fir.

Sunight beaming into the forest along the Carpenter Mountain Trail.

View of Lookout Valley, looking NE from 1507 road

Research Experience for Undergraduates (REU) intern Adlai Herrera sets up a mist net

Graduate student Madison Sutton (left) sets up a mist net

Checking GPS coordinates for the net location

Setting up for data recording

Recording data on location, date, setting for the net set up

Setting a bird decoy in a tree

A bird decoy, at center

Waiting, quietly, for a bird to fly into the net

REU intern Adlai Herrera carefully removes a Swainson's Thrush from the mist net

Rhododendron in bloom

Recording data on the captured bird

Recording data on the captured bird

Madison Sutton readies a metal band which she will place around the bird's leg, like a bracelet

Carefully crimping the metal band, which has a unique identifying number

Measuring wing length

Using a caliper to measure the leg length

Assessing bird age using molt and feather wear patterns, with book reference

Blowing away the feathers reveals the chest, where fat deposits can be seen to assess fitness

The captured Swainson's Thrush, with its new bracelet

Assessing bird age using molt and feather wear patterns, with book reference

Evaluating the molt and weat patterns on the feathers assists the researchers in aging the bird

Evaluating the molt and weat patterns on the feathers assists the researchers in aging the bird

A Swainson's Thrush, and graduate student Madison Sutton

The bird is placed into a bag for two minutes so a poop sample may be collected and later analyzed to learn about what the bird ate

Bird poop samples -- new eDNA analyses can tell scientists what the bird ate

A Swainson's Thrush, and graduate student Madison Sutton

A Swainson's Thrush, and graduate student Madison Sutton

Matthew Betts (left), and graduate student Madison Sutton

Matthew Betts

REU student Adlai Herrera readies to release the bird

releasing the bird

Samples of bird poop, soaked into the paper, are collected for analysis

recording data

recording data

bird banding tools

Matt Betts takes down the mist net

Graduate student Madison Sutton, sporting a collar of bird decoys

Madison Sutton, Adlai Herrera, and Matthew Betts

Dana Warren presents about the interactions of stream temperature, light, and drought

Dana Warren presents about the interactions of stream temperature, light, and drought

Dana Warren presents about the interactions of stream temperature, light, and drought

Dana Warren presents about the interactions of stream temperature, light, and drought

Tatiana Latorre, Ivan Arismendi, Brooke Penaluna, Zach Perry, Dana Warren

Presentations in the forest, about species interactions

Graduate student Abbey Neat presents about a tree seedling study

Graduate student Madison Sutton presents about bird interaction studies

Old-growth forest

Jeff Diez presents about a moss component of the species interaction study

Posy Busby, Jeff Diez, Abbey Neat, Madison Sutton present on the reciprocal transplant experiment

Joe LaManna, Matt Betts, Marie Tosa review a handout

Matt Betts, Suzanne Remillard, Marie Tosa review a handout

Presentations in the forest, about species interactions

Jeff Diez presents about a moss component of the species interaction study.Note moss transplant plot.

Jeff Diez presents about a moss component of the species interaction study

Jeff Diez presents about a moss component of the species interaction study

Matt Betts

Brooke Penaluna with a rough skinned newt

Presentations along Lookout Creek

Ivan Arismendi presents on long-term studies on fish and salamanders

Presentations along Lookout Creek

Graduate student Tatiana Latorre demonstrates a trap used to sample aquatic insects

Graduate student Tatiana Latorre shows aquatic insects to a panelist

Graduate student Zachary Perry speaks about hyrology and flow paths of water