A team at the Department of Energy’s Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab) studies ecosystem changes in a research area along the East River catchment near the Upper Colorado River headwaters. The team’s studies, part of the Watershed Function Scientific Focus Area (SFA) program, are useful for predicting how disturbances to mountainous watersheds - like floods, drought, changing snowpack and earlier snowmelt - impact the downstream delivery of water, nutrients, carbon, and metals. Learn more: watershed.lbl.gov/