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Professor Tim Seastedt receives Chase Faculty Community Service Award from CU System
January 29th, 2019INSTAAR fellow Timothy Seastedt has been selected as the recipient of the 2019 Chase Faculty Community Service Award. The award is sponsored by an endowment from the Chase Corporation through the CU Foundation, and given to a full-time CU System faculty member who, in addition to university responsibilities, has provided exceptional educational, humanitarian, civic or other service in the community pro bono.
A landscape unseen in over 40,000 years
January 25th, 2019Glacial retreat in the Canadian Arctic has uncovered landscapes that haven’t been ice-free in more than 40,000 years, and the region may be experiencing its warmest century in 115,000 years, new INSTAAR-led research finds. The study, published today in the journal Nature Communications, uses radiocarbon dating to determine the ages of plants collected at the edges of 30 ice caps on Baffin Island, west of Greenland.
Arctic Arts photographers awarded 6 medals at Arctic Biodiversity Congress
November 1st, 2018Photographers from the Arctic Arts Project, a collective of 8 photographers with a unified mission to promote visual understanding of climate change, were awarded 6 out of 14 medals in the “Through the Lens” international photography competition of the Arctic Biodiversity Congress. The Arctic Arts Project is a frequent partner of the University of Colorado, and director Kerry Koepping is an INSTAAR Affiliate.
Events Calendar
CWEST Seminar: Changing river dynamics cause permafrost thaw: Exploration of the coupling of a river
Changing river dynamics cause permafrost thaw: Exploration of the coupling of a river temperature and a permafrost model
Grad student talk: Re-assessing pan-Arctic methane budgets using permafrost and microbial dynamics
Science and pizza, featuring "Re-assessing pan-Arctic methane budgets using permafrost and microbial dynamics of methanogen and high affinity…
Seminars
Noon seminar - Changes in flooding in the 21st century
Coffee hour Coffee and cookies will be served starting at 11:45 a.m. outside S228.
Noon seminar - Tectonic geomorphology and soil edaphics as controls on animal migrations and early
Topic Tectonic geomorphology and soil edaphics as controls on animal migrations and early human settlement and dispersal
Grad Student Talks
Grad student talk: Re-assessing pan-Arctic methane budgets using permafrost and microbial dynamics
Science and pizza, featuring "Re-assessing pan-Arctic methane budgets using permafrost and microbial dynamics of methanogen and high affinity…