Wyoming Signature Feature: Butterfly Research at AMK Ranch (UW/NPS Research Station)
Channel: Wyoming Videos
Date: 2012-01-27

The AMK ranch, a University of Wyoming/National Park Service research site in Grand Teton National Park, supports, encourages, and promotes research within park boundaries. Each summer, field researchers flock to this facility on the shores of Jackson Lake. Producer Ali Grossman teamed up for one day with Diane Debinski, a field biologist who has been returning to the site every summer for 19 years.

Debinski, a professor of Ecology, Evolution and Organismal Biology, seeks to understand the mechanisms by which climate change can affect the population dynamics of Parnassius clodius butterfly in the Grand Tetons in Wyoming.

A University of Wyoming Production
Originally aired on Wyoming Signatures on KCWC
Produced, Shot, and Edited by: Ali Grossman, UWTV
Production assistant: David Johnson
Photo credits: Diane Debinski, James Pritchard, and Jennet Caruthers