INSTAAR Graduate Student Talks

INSTAAR Graduate Student Talks

4:30 PM Thursdays, RL-1, INSTAAR Conference Room, 269
For directions to RL-1, see INSTAAR Map pages
These talks are open to the public. All are welcome!

Fall 2009
(Organized by Terry Legg)

Sep. 03 Jim White, INSTAAR Director, and Chad Stoffel, INSTAAR System/Network Administrator.
"Grad series kick-off."

Sep. 10 Shelly Sommer and Bridget Carey, INSTAAR.
"The ins-and-outs of INSTAAR."

Sep. 10 Tyler Jones, INSTAAR.
"Siple Dome ice cores: Implications for West Antarctic climate and ENSO events."
Abstract

Sept. 17 Kurt Refsnider, INSTAAR.
"Long-term records of ice sheet dynamics and erosion on Baffin Island."
Abstract

Sept. 24 NO TALK, INSTAAR Picnic.

Oct. 01 Ben Schupack, INSTAAR.
"Pushing the limits of volcanic cryptotephra detection in the Arctic."
Abstract

Oct. 08 Mariah Walton, INSTAAR.
"West Greenland Cruise JR175: Reconstructing the Quaternary retreat of the Greenland Ice Sheet."
Abstract

Oct. 15 Jennifer Petrzelka, INSTAAR.
"Three-dimensional quantification of meltwater flow through a snowpack using a snow guillotine: Methods, fieldwork, and some preliminary results."
Abstract

Oct. 22 Lu Alves, INSTAAR.
"Variation in live aboveground biomass along an elevational gradient of a tropical moist forest (Brazil)."
Abstract

Oct. 29 Lee Stanish, INSTAAR.
"Spatial variation in benthic diatom community composition in Antarctic stream ecosystems."
Abstract

Nov. 05 CANCELLED

Nov. 12 Barbara-Lynn Concienne, EBIO.
"Microbial communities in newly deglaciated soils of the Middle Fork Toklat Glacier
Denali National Park and Preserve, Alaska."
Abstract

Nov. 19 Jordan Parman, INSTAAR.
"Elevational controls on organic and inorganic nutrients in stream waters, Boulder Creek Watershed, Colorado Front Range."
Abstract

Dec. 03 James Cullis,.
"Understanding the hydrologic factors affecting the growth of the nuisance diatom Didymosphenia geminata in rivers and the potential for using managed flood releases to control future growth."

Dec. 10 Sean Bryan,.
"TBA."