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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.
Act on Climate with new website from CU Boulder Sustainability, Energy and Environment Community
September 17th, 2018Act on Climate, a new addition to the University of Colorado Boulder Sustainability, Energy and Environment Community (SEEC) website, makes it easy to step through the most effective personal actions you can take on climate.
Diatoms of North America gets a website refresh
May 9th, 2018A new version of the community-based website Diatoms of North America launched today at https://diatoms.org. Previously known as Diatoms of the United States, the website is an online guide to diatoms that helps researchers identify almost 900 species.