Climate change and changing winters significantly impact ecosystem services, which are crucial for clean air, food security, human health, and economic activity. Consistent snow pack insulate allows soil communities to mineralize nutrients from dead plant material while plants are dormant, creating large pools of plant-available nutrients. Changes in winters, such as increased snow free days and fluctuating snowpack, can affect soil nutrient availability. Freezing soil reduces microbial activity, leading to a reduction in available nutrients in spring. Additionally, mid-winter thaws and increased rain events could flood nutrients out of the ecosystem, further decreasing spring nutrient availability. This ecological mismatch can have cascading effects on plant communities and ecosystem structures and function. To better understand the ecosystem effects of changing winter we will be building a network of high frequency sensor suites to capture snow depth, precipitation amount and phase, soil temperature and moisture. We will pair this with soil nutrient sampling throughout both the growing season as well as the winter. This will allow us to link aboveground climate trends and below ground nutrient responses to understand ecosystem responses to changing winters.