NWT student Rory Cowie scans the horizon

Scanning the horizon

Just below treeline and just below the whiteout above, graduate student Rory Cowie scans the horizon for signs of the T-Van sampling site on Niwot Ridge, where field technicians have taken weekly CO2 samples since 1968, constituting one of the longest CO2 records in the world. 

Photo courtesy of: 
Hillary Buchanan
From: 
Niwot Ridge’s extreme year for precipitation