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Steltzer's support while attempting to diversify their board. This opportunity gave her the chance to work with Chris Landry, the director at the time, on a project studying snow melt rates in the San Juan
Mountains. She also works with the Western Alliance for Restoration Management, whose goal is to protect headwaters which are under threat due to contamination from Colorado's many mines. She also serves the Watershed Function Scientific Focus Area as a co-principal investigator. The Watershed Function SFA attempts to make predictive models about how a warming climate will affect water availability.
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what type of plant litter leaves were deposited in. Through multiple transplant experiments, they found that lying in the litter of a leaf's own species accelerated the rate at which the leaves decompose, which they referred to as the home-field advantage. It also discussed that there was a potential for climate change to interrupt this process as migration patterns of plants and animals shift.
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Avalanche Studies. The CSAS conducts studies by connecting researchers of different backgrounds in order to obtain and analyze data that could have impacts on high mountain regions. The CSAS gained
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Steltzer's research revolves mostly around alpine and arctic ecology, looking at snow and how the changing climate affects water availability. Steltzer began her research in Gothic, Colorado at the Rocky
Mountain Biology Laboratory. Her research led to her be nominated as a writer for the 2019 IPCC
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Steltzer's has also done a significant amount of work on decomposition in soil. One of her most cited works is a peer reviewed article entitled "Home-field advantage accelerates leaf litter decomposition in forests" which aimed to find if there was a difference in decomposition speeds depending on
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Committee on Science, Space, and Technology. She addressed the House as a witness for the official hearing which called for an update on the climate crisis. Steltzer was one of five
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which attempts to explain the hydrology of the area and the impacts climate change is having on it. Steltzer's work also examines how much water plants affected by run off are taking in and giving off into the atmosphere depending on snow melt conditions. Steltzer stresses the importance of the
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Steltzer transitioned from working on decomposition to studying snow when an opportunity with the Center for Snow and
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from many peer-reviewed studies of various regions, showing consistency in the results. They found that snowfall was in fact decreasing and was resulting in a shorter seasons. The report then suggests action to be taken.
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Ayres, Edward; Steltzer, Heidi; Simmons, Breana L.; Simpson, Rodney T.; Steinweg, J. Megan; Wallenstein, Matthew D.; Mellor, Nate; Parton, William J.; Moore, John C.; Wall, Diana H. (2009-03-01).
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Ayres, E., Steltzer, H. et al. (2009). Soil biota accelerate decomposition in high‐elevation forests by specializing in the breakdown of litter produced by the plant species above them.
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Lau, J. A., Puliafico, K. P., Kopshever, J. A., Steltzer, H. et al. (2008). Inference of allelopathy is complicated by effects of activated carbon on plant growth.
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property of snow to "seep". This allows for gradual distribution of water, which is more valuable than the sudden arrival of rain waters.
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