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Fat Marmot Week fights funding cuts with humor and science

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Researchers are using a "Fat Marmot Week" event, inspired by "Fat Bear Week," to raise awareness and donations for their long-term marmot research. The project, based at the Rocky Mountain Biological Laboratory, faces challenges due to federal funding cuts. Last winter, a lack of snow cover, attributed to climate change, led to a significant die-off in one marmot population, highlighting the serious implications of environmental shifts. AI

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Fat Marmot Week fights funding cuts with humor and science

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  1. Fortune TIER_1 English(EN) · Brittany Peterson, Mead Gruver, The Associated Press ·

    Leader of Fat Marmot Week fights the budget cut era: ‘we’re going to be laughing our way down as the Titanic sinks’

    Marmot researchers in Gothic, Colorado, affectionately call themselves “marmoteers.” Funding cuts have already wiped out a third of the grad students.

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