Media Category: CAP

Water lazily flows through a shallow channel of the river, framed by young willows and cottonwoods.

Luke Ramsey-Wiegmann, a PhD student in the WEEL, wades through a shallow marshy part of the wetland to access the starting point for a vegetation monitoring transect.

Buttonbush (Cephalanthus occidentalis)

Scarlet Toothcup (Ammannia coccinea)

Yerba de Jicotea (Ludwigia erecta).

Patrick Gardiner, an undergraduate researcher with the WEEL, stands in a clump of young willows, cottonwoods, and saltcedars, helping lay out a transect across the riverbed.

Julia Hernandez, the Wetland Ecosystem Ecology Lab (WEEL) manager with CAP LTER, paddles towards a set of vegetation monitoring plots now only accessible by boat.

The AZ 202/101 Superstack shades a lush marsh full of cattails and palms.

CAP field site at dusk, Bergin making it rain over an experimental patch in the distance.

Velvet mite in plant litter of the Sonoran Desert.

A Sonoran Desert Collembola or springtail.