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INSTAAR hosts first data blitz highlighting new research (and science puns)
January 21st, 2020Whales, wildfires, and weeds; dams, drones, and diatoms; sulfur, swamps, and sea ice were all headline topics at INSTAAR’s first data blitz last week. In quick succession, faculty, graduate students, and postdocs took turns giving two-minute talks using two slides apiece. The speed talks were meant to showcase the breadth and diversity of research that takes place in the Institute, and to help everyone get to know each other and their work a little better.
Watershed exhibit to open at Museum of Boulder
January 16th, 2020An educational exhibit on the Boulder Creek watershed is opening at the Museum of Boulder on Friday, January 31 from 5:30-7:30 p.m. All are welcome at the opening reception, which is free.
DNA recovered from Arctic lakes holds clues for our future world
December 10th, 2019High in the Canadian Arctic on Baffin Island, beneath 10 meters of water and many more of mud, sits a refrigerated archive of Earth’s past life. The deep sediments in a small lake called CF8 hold ancient pollen and plant fossils. But it now appears that the mud harbors something else: ancient DNA from as far back as the Eemian, a period 125,000 years ago when the Arctic was warmer than today, left by vegetation that otherwise would have vanished without a trace. Highlights the work of postdoc and former grad student Sarah Crump.
2019 Highly Cited Researchers include INSTAARs Suding, Turetsky, and White
November 20th, 2019INSTAAR researchers Katherine Suding, Merritt Turetsky, and James W. C. White have been named 2019 Highly Cited Researchers by the Web of Science Group, meaning they rank in the top one percent of their field by citations. The recognition is meant to identify the world's most influential researchers.
INSTAAR buys carbon offsets for its researchers’ flights
October 18th, 2019INSTAAR will counteract the carbon footprint of its researchers’ business flights by paying into CU Boulder’s carbon offset plan.
Accelerating boreal wildfires releasing old carbon to the atmosphere, study reveals
August 21st, 2019More frequent and larger wildfires are releasing old carbon stored in soils that in the past was able to escape burning, according to a new study involving incoming INSTAAR director Merritt Turetsky.