The Beetles Are Trying to Tell us Something! Moab’s Open Ecology Data
A behind-the-scenes scoop from the NEON ecologists Cressa Pratt & Elise Rappel working in Moab as part of a giant, cooperative ecology project where something as small as a beetle or a flower bloom helps unlock our understanding of how climate change impacts the continent. The night’s film, The Mummy (1999), reminds us how something as small as a beetle, can, in fact signal doom for an adventurous librarian, museum curator, and some uncredentialed Egyptology enthusiasts.
