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Past Grad Student Talks

• Grad student talk: AGU practice talks  December 6, 2018
• Grad student talk: Effect of standing water on permafrost thermal cond…  November 8, 2018
• Grad student talk: The effects of early snowmelt and warming on alpine…  November 1, 2018
• Grad student talk: Snow fractions and runoff ratios  October 18, 2018
• Grad student talk: Winter limnology in Rocky Mountain National Park: U…  October 4, 2018
• Nick Schulte  September 20, 2018
• Grad student talk: Round table  April 19, 2018
• Grad student talk: Field site descriptions  March 22, 2018
• Grad student talk: Disturbances within the Napa River Watershed  March 8, 2018
• Grad student talk: Watching the snow melt  January 25, 2018
• Grad student talk: AGU practice talks  November 30, 2017
• Grad student talk: Bedforms and blizzards on Niwot Ridge  November 16, 2017
• Grad student talk: Modeling aspect controlled formation of seasonally…  November 2, 2017
• Grad student talk: Biogeochemical variability in Fraser Experimental F…  October 19, 2017
• Grad student talk: Runoff generation processes in the Boulder CZO  September 21, 2017
• Grad student talk: Welcome to INSTAAR  September 7, 2017
• Understanding meltwater’s role in downstream water supplies in d…  May 4, 2017
• How important is snow and ice to Central Asian river flow?  May 4, 2017
• Glacier sliding from space: multiscale remote sensing, geodesy, and nu…  April 20, 2017
• Snow pits, dubious meteorological data, and long-term snowpack simulat…  April 13, 2017
• Sub-hysteretic analysis: Transient EC-Q relationships and hyporheic ex…  March 23, 2017
• The effects of dissolution on Mg/Ca ratios in planktic foraminifera  March 9, 2017
• Life among the rocks: High elevation plant and microbial communities  February 23, 2017
• AGU practice seminars  December 8, 2016
• Estimating the distribution of snow with remotely sensed fractional sn…  December 1, 2016
• Ancient DNA in Arctic lake sediments  November 17, 2016
• Molecules in the mud: A sedimentary ancient DNA record of paleovegetat…  November 17, 2016
• Stream tracer breakthrough curve decomposition into mass fractions: A…  October 20, 2016
• The effect of sediment on glacial melt dynamics in the Dry Valleys, An…  October 6, 2016
• Constraining latest Holocene expansion and 20th century retreat of a s…  September 22, 2016
• A 1700 year record of ocean influence on Jakobshavn Isbræ calving act…  September 8, 2016
• Grad student welcome  August 25, 2016
• Hyporheic zone function in naked watersheds: Leveraging the unique con…  April 28, 2016
• Dissolved black carbon in Antarctic lakes and other regions of the cry…  April 14, 2016
• Using hydrochemical tracers to understand streamflow generation in Bou…  March 17, 2016
• Coastal changes in Greenland in a changing climate  March 3, 2016
• Northern hemisphere ethane and propane trends and CFC flux through sno…  February 18, 2016
• Cradle to grave: DOM and the biogeochemical impacts of the Boulder Flo…  January 21, 2016
• AGU practice talks  December 10, 2015
• Grad student AGU practice talks  December 10, 2015
• Colder snowmelt in a warmer world reduces forest carbon uptake  November 12, 2015
• Reversal in ethane and propane trends  October 15, 2015
• Seeing sliding from space: Observing and modeling seasonal velocity fl…  October 8, 2015
• Geologic misfortune: The sourcing, fate, and transport of rare earth e…  September 17, 2015
• A journey down the Rio Maranon  September 3, 2015
• Relics of a colder past: 10Be ages from Neoglacial moraines on Baffin…  April 30, 2015
• Neoglaciation on Baffin Island  April 23, 2015
• Establishing transferable sub-pixel relationships for estimating snow…  April 16, 2015
• Watching the needles fall: Quantifying canopy change with forest morta…  April 9, 2015
• Sensing the cryosphere with Landsat 8  April 2, 2015
• Sensitivity of snowmelt partitioning to snowmelt dynamics  March 12, 2015
• Numerically studying the influences of extreme events on delta morphol…  March 5, 2015
• Impacts of the permafrost carbon feedback on global climate  February 26, 2015
• Redefining glacial pace: Greenland Ice Sheet velocities during the 21s…  February 19, 2015
• A high-resolution multi-proxy lake sediment record from Torfdalsvatn  February 12, 2015
• Jordan past and present: A personal story of international assistance  January 29, 2015
• Nutrient controls on ecosystem development in the Puca Glacier forefie…  January 22, 2015
• Mining impacts on surface albedo of snow in Svalbard, Norway  January 15, 2015
• AGU practice talks  December 4, 2014
• Modeling the effect of debris on valley glaciers  November 20, 2014
• Use of 10Be to deduce variations in sediment supply from the Front Ran…  November 13, 2014
• Baffin Island ice caps: A story of rise and demise  November 6, 2014
• Melt ponds and melt channels: What makes ice shelves fall apart?  October 30, 2014
• Physical and chemical controls on the abundance and composition of mic…  October 23, 2014
• Precipitation-snowmelt timing and snowmelt augmentation of large peak…  October 16, 2014
• Grasshopper transport of atmospheric contaminants into Antarctic glaci…  October 9, 2014
• A solid adsorbent method for monitoring exposure to volatile organic c…  October 2, 2014
• Glacier basal sliding in two dimensions from high-resolution satellite…  September 25, 2014
• Will you do as I do? A landscape analysis of microbial community respo…  September 18, 2014
• Fate and transport of DOM in the Okavango Delta and McMurdo Dry Valley…  September 11, 2014
• Never summer: Fieldwork during Chile’s austral winter  August 28, 2014
• Hillslope lowering rates and mobile-regolith residence times from in s…  April 24, 2014
• Global measurement of nitrous oxide and its stable isotopes using CRDS  April 17, 2014
• Linking topography, hydrology, climate, and ecology in semi-arid fores…  April 10, 2014
• Hillslope dissolved organic matter transport and transformation in a h…  April 3, 2014
• Landslides, gophers, & other hillslope-process related fun on the…  March 20, 2014
• The water-quality effects of a bulkhead installed in the Dinero Mine T…  March 13, 2014
• Updates from the Arctic: Baffin Isl. Ice Cap variability through dead…  March 6, 2014
• Element fluxes & streamflow generation at the snow-rain transition…  February 27, 2014
• A half century of Antarctic geoscience exploration, 1957-2013  February 20, 2014
• Sea ice and arctic coasts  February 13, 2014
• AGU practice talks  December 5, 2013
• Erosion, soil development and nitrogen in a topographically dissected…  November 21, 2013
• Connect your research to the classroom with ScienceLIVE  November 14, 2013
• Using high-temporal-resolution, repeat terrestrial LiDAR to compare to…  November 7, 2013
• Velocity of the Kennicott Glacier as seen from 500 km elevation  October 31, 2013
• Characterizing water movement through abandoned mine workings, Creede,…  October 24, 2013
• Of microbes or men? Determining sources of nitrate in the Green Lakes…  October 17, 2013
• Gophers, trees, and rocks: Who decides where montane meadows are gener…  October 10, 2013
• Testing for orbital and solar forcing of the ENSO system during the Ho…  October 3, 2013
• High basal shear stress vs. high basal melt: Accelerations on the Getz…  September 26, 2013
• Field measurements and remote sensing for distributed snow estimates  September 19, 2013
• Has increased runoff from the Greenland Ice Sheet altered the SCC of f…  August 29, 2013
• The effects of interannual variability on the moraine record, esp. wes…  April 25, 2013
• Opportunities, limitations, and challenges of hydrochemistry-based mel…  March 21, 2013
• Reconstructing the vertical 14C gradient of the Baja Margin during the…  March 14, 2013
• An ecological approach to geogenic arsenic contamination in Bangladesh…  March 7, 2013
• Multi-year observations of O3 and NOx dynamics in Summit, Greenland sn…  February 28, 2013
• Skiing Afghanistan: A slideshow of the first-ever ski mountaineering e…  November 15, 2012
• Beetles, dust, and snow: Projecting changes in snowmelt in..Colorado R…  November 1, 2012
• Swimming pool science: Tracing organic matter in the Boulder Creek wat…  October 25, 2012
• Orbital and millennial climate variability recorded in ice core stable…  October 18, 2012
• Field work slide show from the 2011-2012 McMurdo Dry Valleys Stream Te…  October 11, 2012
• Evaluating potential for clean energy production at a palm oil wastewa…  October 4, 2012
• Quaternary dating of hillslopes and terraces along the Colorado Front…  September 27, 2012
• Of microbes and men: The nitrogen cycle game  September 20, 2012
• Intro to INSTAAR for new students  September 6, 2012
• Deep ocean carbon storage  May 3, 2012
• What do moraines tell us about paleoglaciers and paleoclimate? A case…  April 26, 2012
• Laurentide and Mississippi: A source-to-sink tale  April 19, 2012
• A multiple tracer approach to characterizing water and contaminant mov…  April 12, 2012
• Novel technique for evaluation of relationships between phytoplankton…  April 5, 2012
• ...And other stories from INSTAAR graduate research  March 22, 2012
• Discharge and sediment transport from Watson River, West Greenland  March 1, 2012
• Abrupt climate change reconstructed from Greenland ice cores  February 16, 2012
• Rainforest carbon sequestration  February 9, 2012
• New features of the INSTAAR website  February 2, 2012
• Inverting 13CO2 for terrestrial carbon fractionation in North America  November 17, 2011
• Deglacial history and paleoceanography of the Umanak System, West Gree…  November 10, 2011
• Muddy Waters and the Arctic Blues: Reconstructing climate and glaciers…  November 3, 2011
• Using stable water isotopes to distinguish aerosol chemistry from tran…  October 27, 2011
• Contributions of sub-debris melt and ice face retreat to the rapid def…  October 27, 2011
• A lake sediment record of Arctic Holocene climate using a multi-proxy…  October 13, 2011
• The curious incident of the well in the Raton: An environmental invest…  October 6, 2011
• Sinking river deltas: Remote sensing of subsidence and topography  September 29, 2011
• Catchment sediment yields are not what they used to be…But what has…  September 22, 2011
• North American topographic and drainage evolution since the Last Glaci…  September 15, 2011
• Labile and redox-active organic matter sources influence bacterial com…  September 8, 2011
• Science outreach: Calculated approaches to celebrating the act of disc…  September 1, 2011
• Tropical forests, methane flares, and undergraduate research at INSTAA…  August 25, 2011
• Reconstructing sea-surface temperature with alkenones  April 28, 2011
• Tracing snowpack meltwater: oxygen-18 holds secrets of hydrologic conn…  April 14, 2011
• New insights into glacial deep ocean circulation and carbon storage  April 7, 2011
• Hurricane insurability: What is the problem?  March 31, 2011
• Atmosphere-snowpack ozone exchanges in the Arctic: Methods, initial re…  March 10, 2011
• Using fluorescence spectroscopy and PARAFAC analysis to characterize D…  March 3, 2011
• The 8.2 ka event on the NW Iceland Shelf as recorded in paired d18O an…  February 17, 2011
• My summer glaciology course in McCarthy, Alaska  February 3, 2011
• “Swing thinkers”: Communicating climate science to the fru…  January 20, 2011
• Plant-microbe interactions in deglaciated landscapes  December 2, 2010
• The effects of a climate manipulation experiment on snow properties…  November 18, 2010
• An investigation of seasonality of biogenic volatile organic compound…  November 11, 2010
• The diversity and biogeography of microbial communities in Antarctic S…  November 4, 2010
• Holocene subpolar gyre evolution and implications for paleonutrient tr…  October 21, 2010
• Reorganization of ice sheet flow in Arctic Canada before the mid-Pleis…  October 7, 2010
• Past climate variability: Model analysis and proxy intercomparison  September 30, 2010
• What’s causing morning nitric oxide ‘pulse’ above th…  September 23, 2010
• Chemical characteristics of dissolved humic substances from arsenic-ri…  April 15, 2010
• Stoichiometric control of organic carbon-nitrate-phosphorous relations…  April 8, 2010
• Estoy cansada, pero feliz: 7 weeks in the rainforest classroom of Cost…  April 1, 2010
• Himalayan glaciers: Integrating remote sensing, field methods & lo…  March 18, 2010
• Dissolved organic matter cycling in the Boulder Creek watershed  March 11, 2010
• The use of ablation-dominated medial moraines as samplers for erosion…  March 4, 2010
• RV Knorr Oceanographic Cruise 197-3: Demerara Rise 2010  February 25, 2010
• Volcanoes in the Arctic System (VAST): Success, challenges, and future  February 11, 2010
• Climate variability of the Medieval Climate Anomaly and Little Ice Age  February 4, 2010
• Understanding the hydrologic factors affecting the growth of nuisance…  December 3, 2009
• Elevational controls on organic and inorganic nutrients in stream wate…  November 19, 2009
• Microbial communities in newly deglaciated soils of an Alaskan glacier…  November 12, 2009
• Spatial variation in benthic diatom community composition in Antarctic…  October 29, 2009
• Variation in live aboveground biomass along an elevational gradient of…  October 22, 2009
• Three-dimensional quantification of meltwater flow through a snowpack…  October 15, 2009
• West Greenland Cruise JR175: Reconstructing the Quaternary retreat of&…  October 8, 2009
• Pushing the limits of volcanic cryptotephra detection in the Arctic  October 1, 2009
• Long-term records of ice sheet dynamics and erosion on Baffin Island  September 17, 2009
• Siple Dome ice cores: Implications for West Antarctic climate and ENSO…  September 10, 2009