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Throughout the season (June through September) the UW Research Institute at AMK Ranch hosts many events. Check back throughout the season to see what we have going on. Or sign up for our mailing list to be notified as soon as new information becomes available.

See the full list of our 2024 Season Events (printable).

Seminars

Each summer we host diverse speakers as part of our Hank Harlow Summer Seminar series. Join us Thursday evenings for a BBQ at 5:30 PM, followed by the seminar at 6:30 PM ($10 suggested donation for attendance including food). Seminars will also be available via Zoom. Make sure to subscribe to our mailing list to get the Zoom link each week.

Whiteboard drawing of Berol Lodge that says, "Enjoy the Seminar!"

2024 Hank Harlow Summer Seminar Series

June 20, 2024

William Fetzer

June 27, 2024

Laura Jones & Anne Beeman

Images of sagebrush, field sites in the prairie, and a tractor

July 11, 2024

Wyoming Festival

Anna Kreuger playing viola in Berol Lodge

July 18, 2024

Maura Farrelly

Historic photo of Edith Sargent playing violin

July 20, 2024

WYOBIRD

Collage of bird photos including a bird with a chip on its wing, students crouching around a bird, two students working together on a project, and one student fixing a birdhouse

July 25, 2024

Rachel Sailor

Historic photo of a ban taking a photo behind an old camera. Train track and mountains are in the background

August 1, 2024

Katherine Gura

A great gray owl snatching up prey from the snow

August 8, 2024

Lusha Tronstad & Scott Hotaling

Big fish eat little fish: An expanded framework to guide aquatic resource management, William Fetzer

June 20 @ 5:30 pm MDT Dr. Fetzer’s research focuses on understanding how freshwater ecosystems respond to human-driven changes, such as climate change, invasive species, and nutrient loading. Recent projects aim to understand the importance of environmental conditions…

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Rooted in restoration: Collaborative sagebrush management practices and strategies, Laura Jones and Anne Beeman

June 27 @ 5:30 pm MDT Anne is a botany master’s student at the University of Wyoming studying sagebrush restoration management strategies in Grand Teton National Park. Specifically, she is observing how tilling treatments and seed mix ratios…

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The Wyoming Festival: New music in the mountains

July 11 @ 5:30 pm MDT Music composers–inspired by the history, nature, science, and culture of the Teton region–write music for virtuosic performers from the Grand Teton Music Festival Orchestra. Enjoy a BBQ at 5:30 followed by the seminar at 6:30, with a…

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Compliments of Hamilton and Sargent, or What Really Happened at the Historic AMK Ranch, Maura Jane Farrelly

July 18 @ 5:30 pm MDT Edith playing violin, Jackson Hole Historical Society and Museum Maura Jane Farrelly is Associate Professor and Chair of American studies at Brandeis University in Waltham, Massachusetts. She is the author of three books: Papist Patriots: The Making of an American Catholic Identity (2012)…

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Special Event | WYOBIRD

July 20 @ 8:00 am Mountain bluebird, Join the Wyoming Bird Initiative for Resilience and Diversity (WYOBIRD) at the AMK Research Station on Saturday, July 20th for a full day event. More information coming soon! UW-NPS Research Station Amk Ranch Rd Moran, WY 83013 …

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When the cameras came: Photography and the American West, Dr. Rachel Sailor

July 25 @ 5:30 pm MDT Dr. Rachel Sailor is a professor of art history and American studies at the University of Wyoming. Her research interests include the history of photography, landscape studies, and regional cultural production. She has published two books…

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Effects of changing snow conditions on an iconic raptor of the GYE: the Great Gray Owl, Katherine Gura

August 1 @ 5:30 pm MDT Dr. Katherine Gura is a research scientist at Colorado State University and a research associate at Teton Raptor Center. Her research focuses on the ecological effects of environmental change, including how wildlife respond to changing snow…

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The first 10 years of the Teton Alpine Stream Research project: What we’ve learned and where we’re going, Lusha Tronstad and Scott Hotaling

August 8 @ 5:30 pm MDT Lusha Tronstad is the invertebrate zoologist at the Wyoming Natural Diversity Database, University of Wyoming. She studies invertebrates of management and conservation concern, and is an expert on aquatic invertebrates, mollusks and pollinators…

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Past Seminars

Weren’t able to attend a seminar you wanted to see? Curious about what the past seminars have been? Watch videos of seminars beginning in 2014.

Big cabin room with beautiful hardwood floors

Browse Past Events

Watch videos of previous seminars and events on our YouTube channel

A crowd of people standing out on the lawn outside Berol, getting burgers and enjoying the mountain view

UW Libraries Video Archive

Watch archival videos of seminars beginning in 2014.

The Wyoming Festival – New Music in the Mountains

The Wyoming Festival brings together composers and performers of new classical music, with an emphasis on nature, ecology, and creativity. Each year select composers are invited to attend and their pieces are played by local musicians. Several performances are open to the public at the end of the event to showpiece their creations.

See a video profile from one of the 2016 composers, Ayala Asherov Kalus.