While 99 percent of Earth’s land ice is locked up in the Greenland and Antarctic ice sheets, the remaining ice in the world’s glaciers contributed just as much to sea rise as the two ice sheets…

High school junior Monro Obenauer won a special award from the Colorado Geological Survey at last month's prestigious Intel International Science and Engineering Fair. Mentored by INSTAAR grad student…

New results from the international NEEM deep ice core drilling project on Greenland, analyzing cores going back in time more than 100,000 years, indicates the last interglacial period may be a good…

Hana Fancher didn't wait for graduation to change the world. The undergraduate developed her own research project studying methane emissions from palm oil plantation wastewater ponds—a project that…

Mark Meier, part of the INSTAAR family since the 1980s, passed away November 25th. Those wishing to make a donation in his honor might consider the Mark F. Meier Memorial Fund or program support for…

We are deeply saddened by the loss of glaciologist and director emeritus Mark Meier, who passed away Sunday.

Iraq veteran Matthew Reed talks about his experiences as a CU sophomore, which include majoring in geology and anthropology and working on an INSTAAR project studying the mineralogy of marine…

Chasing Ice, a documentary by director Jeff Orlowski that has won awards at film festivals around the world, is being released nationally in U.S. theaters starting in mid-November. The film follows…

Please join INSTAAR and the Meier family in a celebration honoring Mark’s life.

66 million years ago a mountain-sized chunk of rock, traveling at more than 10 times the muzzle velocity of an assault rifle, slammed into the…