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Central Wyoming College has been greatly empowered by RM-AMP support to increase student diversity in existing projects and launching several new initiatives. CWC partnered with US Fish and Wildlife Service to craft a unique summer research experience for RM-AMP scholars called: “Being Bighorn.” During the program, students worked with numerous state and federal organizations to advance bighorn sheep biology-related projects and STEM-based tasks and trainings. CWC’s CO-WY students also traveled to East Africa to complete research in microbial ecology and glaciology.

Closer to home, in Wyoming’s Wind River Range, CO-WY students participated in the Interdisciplinary Climate Change Expedition (ICCE). During the academic year, ICCE students acquire required STEM skills to complete their summer research projects. Students also spend two weeks in alpine terrain where they use global positioning systems and ground penetrating radar to collect field data and use geographic information systems to map and interpret their results. CO-WY ICCE students’ work contributes to the fields of hydrology, glaciology, and environmental archaeology.

Finally, CWC CO-WY scholars participate in an on-going research project that uses a soil capillary water project to measure and map subsurface uranium contamination from the Uranium Mill Tailings Remedial Action (UMTRA) site near Riverton, Wyoming.