Professor Robert S. Anderson of the University of Colorado Boulder’s geological sciences department and INSTAAR has been awarded the 2014 Hazel Barnes Prize, the most distinguished award a faculty…

Tsegay Wolde-Georgis, of the INSTAAR program Consortium for Capacity Building (CCB), is leading a project to introduce the cultivation of apple trees irrigated by water-filled, buried clay pots to the…

INSTAAR Senior Fellow and Geological Sciences Professor Emeritus John T. Andrews was named an Honorary Member by the Quaternary Research Association (QRA) at its recent meeting in London.

The American Chemical Society (ACS) has selected a new study that looks at air quality impacts from fracking emissions as an “Editor’s Choice.” The paper, by the scientists of INSTAAR’s…

An analysis published Feb. 26 in the journal Nature Climate Change shows that the wastewater produced during the processing of palm oil is a significant source of heat-trapping methane in the…

A new study bolsters the theory that the first Americans, who are believed to have come over from northeast Asia during the last ice age, may have been isolated on the Bering Land Bridge for thousands…

Astrid Ogilvie is on her way to Iceland as the new Visiting Nansen Professor in Arctic Studies at the University of Akureyri. Ogilvie was awarded the twelve-month appointment by representatives from…

INSTAAR faculty and graduate students will share their research at the American Geophysical Union (AGU) Fall Meeting (http://fallmeeting.agu.org/2013/) held in San Francisco, 9 to 13 December. They…

Future talks EBIO Colloquia schedule and list of speakers

Title Determining sources of nitrate in an alpine catchment using triple oxygen isotopes of nitrate Abstract High elevation ecosystems…

Join us for an interview with noted environmental writer Andrew Revkin. Afterwards enjoy a live performance of Revkin's original music from his…

Full title Antarctica, Elephant Island and South Georgia: Ice chasing, Shackleton and the pleasure of pursuing penguins

Webcast Watch the live webcast. Abstract Homeowners’ decisions in fire-prone areas play a crucial role in shaping wildfire occurrence…

Future talks EBIO Colloquia schedule and list of speakers

TBD, but may address cosmo and terraces or hillslopes geomorphology, CRN/OSL dating, and soils.

Full title Antarctica, Elephant Island and South Georgia: Ice chasing, Shackleton and the pleasure of pursuing penguins

TBD, but may address cosmo and terraces or hillslopes geomorphology, CRN/OSL dating, and soils.