INSTAAR Graduate Student Talks
Fall 2007
(Organized by Susan Riggins and Brian Seok)
Sep. 06 CANCELLED.
Sep. 13 Maureen Mason Berlin, INSTAAR.
"Feedbacks between sediment supply and channel evolution following knickpoint retreat in canyons on the Roan Plateau, western Colorado."
Abstract
Sep. 20 Jim White, INSTAAR Director; Chad Stoffel, System/Network Administrator; Shelly Sommer, Information Center Manager.
"Perspectives on INSTAAR, graduate student roles, and services to students."
Sep. 27 CANCELLED
Oct. 04 Atsu Muto, CU-Boulder Dept of Geography, CIRES
"Ice Ice Baby: A slide show of sea ice studies in the Southern Ocean and deep ice core drilling at Dome Fuji Station in east Antarctica."
Oct. 11 Dylan Ward, INSTAAR.
"Glaciers moving dirt around."
Oct. 18 Adina Racoviteanu, INSTAAR.
"Are the Andean mountain Gods upset? Glacier and climate changes in the Cordillea Blanca of Peru inferred from remote sensing and field data."
Abstract
Oct. 25 GSA Practice Talks
Zan Frederick, INSTAAR.
"Yukon River Tributaries sum to total basin export based on solute loads."
Ursula Quillmann, INSTAAR.
"Using Mg/Ca and stable light isotope ratios of a benthic foraminiferal species to detect the 8.2 Ka cooling event on the Icelandic Shelf."
Susan Riggins, INSTAAR.
"Regolith formation on an alpine hillslope."
Nov. 01 NO TALK, GSA Fall Meeting
Nov. 08 Adam Eisele, INSTAAR.
"Into Thin Air: A personal account of the epic air toxics tale in Boulder County"
Abstract
Nov. 15 Kurt Refsnider, INSTAAR.
"From the Pliocene to the late-Pleistocene: Interpreting glacial deposits in Colorado and the Canadian Arctic."
Abstract
Nov. 22 NO TALK, Thanksgiving Holiday
Nov. 29 Tisza Bell, INSTAAR.
"Balsam fir leaf litter extract stimulates growth of the green snow alga Chloromonas rosae var. psychrophila (Chlorophyta, Volvocales) from Whiteface Mountain, New York."
Abstract
Dec. 06 AGU Practice Talks
Maureen Berlin
"Relict landscape response to knickpoint migration on the Roan Plateau, western Colorado, explored through ALSM data analysis."
Abstract
Ken Hill
"Hydrochemical response to drought conditions at an alpine watershed, Colorado Front Range."
Abstract
Brian Seok
"Carbon Dioxide gas exchange through the snowpack and its contribution to the ecosystem carbon budget in a high-elevation, subalpine forest."
Abstract
Dec. 13 NO TALK, American Geophysical Union Meeting
Dec. 20 NO TALK, Finals Week
Spring 2007
(Organized by Sean Bryan and Maureen Berlin)
Jan. 18 Ursula Quillmann, INSTAAR
"Holocene environmental variability in Isafjardardjup and its tributary fjords, NW Iceland."
Abstract
Jan. 25 NO TALK
Feb. 01 TBA,
Feb. 08 Adina Racoviteanu, INSTAAR
"Glaciers, rishis and pilgrimages: Experiences from a solo field season
in
the Indian Himalayas. "
Abstract
Feb. 15 Alexandra Sinclair, INSTAAR
"Ocean Observatories Initiative: A revolution in ocean science."
Abstract
Feb. 22 Graduate student meeting with the INSTAAR Scientific Advisory Council (SAC)
Mar. 01 Dylan Ward, INSTAAR
"Signatures of glacial erosion and retreat in the landscape: cosmogenic and numerical modeling constraints."
Abstract
Mar. 08 Steve DeVogel, INSTAAR
"Timing and cause of extinction of the Elephant Bird (Aepyornis) in Madagascar."
Abstract
Mar. 15 Lesleigh Anderson, USGS
"Exploring the secrets of the mud: Arctic and alpine lake sediments as paleoclimatic archives."
Abstract
Mar. 22 Kurt Refsnider, INSTAAR
"Late Pleistocene alpine glaciation in the Uinta Mountains: The importance of precipitation variability on glacier chronologies."
Abstract
Mar. 29 NO TALK, Spring Break
Apr. 05 Lee Stanish, INSTAAR
"Diatom community composition in Antarctic freshwater streams: past, present, and future."
Abstract
Apr. 12 Zan Frederick, INSTAAR
"The Yukon, The USGS and Me."
Abstract
Apr. 19 Larry
Bowlds, INSTAAR, Managing Editor of Arctic, Antarctic, and Alpine Research.
"Beyond peer review: the other part of the editorial process."
Abstract
Apr. 26 Cancelled
May. 03 NO TALK, last week of classes
Fall 2006
(Organized by Sean Bryan and Maureen Berlin)
Aug. 31 Introductory Meeting
Sep. 07 NO MEETING, Grad Student Retreat week
Sep. 14 Jan Pollman, INSTAAR
"Evaluation and measurements of the global distribution of hydrocarbons."
Abstract
Sep. 21 Ursula Rick and Maureen
Berlin, INSTAAR
"How to Get Funding as a Graduate Student and Beyond."
Abstract | Presentation_PDF
Sep. 28 John Hollin,
INSTAAR
"Film Footage of Wilkes Station, Antarctica in the International
Geophysical Year, 1958."
Oct. 05 Tim Bartholomaus,
INSTAAR
"Glacier sliding and subglacial water pressures: Kennicott Glacier’s response to the 2006 Hidden Creek Lake Jökulhlaup (A summer in the Wrangell Mountains, Alaska)."
Abstract
Oct. 12 Sean Bryan, INSTAAR
"Searching
for Earth’s
past climate in old mud: The process of deep sea sediment coring."
Abstract
Oct. 19 Kaelin Cawley, INSTAAR
"Biogeochemical and ecological consequences of dissolved organic carbon released from soot particles from global firestorms at the Cretaceous/Tertiary boundary: Was the Strangelove Ocean a blackwater ocean?"
Abstract
Oct. 26 Florence Bocquet, INSTAAR
"Ozone exchange at the air-snow interface at the polar site of Summit, Greenland."
Abstract
Nov. 02 Susan Riggins, INSTAAR
"Regolith development in alpine landscapes: Osborn Mountain, Wyoming and Niwot Ridge, Colorado"
Abstract
Nov. 09 Rebecca Anderson ,
INSTAAR
"Rapidly melting ice caps of northern Baffin Island: insights from satellite
imagery, cosmogenic and conventional radiocarbon dating"
Abstract
Nov. 16 Brian Seok, INSTAAR
"Improving our understanding of trace gas transport mechanisms through the snowpack."
Abstract
Nov. 23 NO TALK, Fall Break/Thanksgiving
Nov. 30 Tiffany
Duhl, INSTAAR
"The development of a low-cost, technologically modest method for determining urban fractional vegetation cover and type for use in urban air quality models."
Abstract
Dec. 07 AGU practice Talks, slots still open
Jessica Black , INSTAAR
"Diatoms as proxies for a fluctuating Holocene ice cap margin in Hvitarvatn, Iceland."
Abstract
Dec. 14 NO TALK, last week of classes, AGU Meeting
Spring 2006
(Organized by Ursula Rick and Jan Pollmann)
Jan. 19 Henry Adams and Jeff Lukas , INSTAAR
"Boring trees, interesting science: adventures in dendrochronology in the semi-arid West."
Abstract
Jan. 26 Adina Racoviteanu, INSTAAR
"The SPOT5-derived glacier inventory of Cordillera Blanca, Peru: a contribution to the GLIMS Glacier Database."
Feb. 02 Jessica Black , INSTAAR
"Diatoms as proxies for a fluctuation Holocene Ice Cap margin in Hvítárvatn, Iceland."
Abstract
Feb. 09 Rebecca Anderson, INSTAAR
"Ice cap retreat in northern Baffin Island: providing a context
for current Arctic warming."
Abstract
Feb. 16 Colleen Flanagan,
INSTAAR
"Climate variability and phytoplankton community composition in an alpine lake, Colorado."
Abstract
Feb. 23 John Behrendt ,
INSTAAR
"Innocents on the Ice: A young grad student's oversnow traverses
in Antarctica During the IGY Era."
Abstract
Mar. 02 Craig Lee, INSTAAR
"Ice Patch Archeology: The global phenomena and the need for focused surveys in the Rocky Mountain West."
Abstract
Mar. 09 Zach Guido ,
INSTAAR
"LGM glacier retreat rates and the timing of
terrace formation in the Animas River drainage, San Juan Mountains, Colorado."
Abstract
Mar. 16 NO TALK, 36th Annual Arctic Workshop, hosted by INSTAAR
Mar. 23 Tad Pfeffer,
INSTAAR
"How to write a fundable proposal"
Mar. 30 NO TALK, Spring Break
Apr. 06 Trevor Popp , INSTAAR
"An Ice Chorus: Paleoclimate Results from Greenland and Antarctica Ice Cores and a Look to the Future."
Abstract
Apr. 13 Cynthia Cacy, INSTAAR
"Chemical weathering in loess soils of the Matanuska Valley, Alaska."
Abstract
Apr. 20 Ken MacClune, INSTAAR
"The Atmospheric Methane Source: On the decline in the 21st century."
Abstract
Apr. 27 Sean Bryan ,
INSTAAR
"Conversations with forams: interpreting past ocean conditions."
Abstract
May. 04 James Syvitski, INSTAAR Director
"How to be successful in Science."
Fall 2005
(Organized by Ursula Rick and Jan Pollmann)
Sep. 01 Rhea Esposito & Shannon Horn, INSTAAR
"Community assemblage and endemism in Dry Valley stream diatoms: Two facets of diatom response to climate change."
Abstract
Sep. 08 Tiffany Duhl, INSTAAR
"Uptake and emission of biogenic volitile organic compounds (VOC) by plants."
Abstract
Sep. 15 Paul Abood , INSTAAR
"A deposition discussion: Issues surrounding atmospheric inorganic N deposition measurement."
Abstract
Sep. 22 Craig Anderson, INSTAAR
"Modeling spatially distributed snowpack properties to enhance our understanding of snow-elk relationships in the Northern Elk Winter Range, Yellowstone National Park."
Abstract
Sep. 29 Lana Cohen, INSTAAR
"Science at the Summit: Year-round investigations at the Greenland Environmental Observatory (GEOSummit)."
Abstract
Oct. 06 Maureen Mason, INSTAAR
"Knickpoint migration on the Roan Plateau, Colorado."
Abstract
Oct. 13 NO TALK, FAll Break
Oct. 20 Ursula Rick, INSTAAR
"Meltwater Movement on the Greenland Ice Sheet."
Abstract
Oct. 27 Aurelie Justwan, Norsk Polarinstitutt
"Variability of the Irminger Current during the Holocene."
Abstract
Nov. 03 Shad O'Neel, INSTAAR
"Complete carnage at Columbia Glacier: Iceberg calving and fast flow......What are we learning?"
Abstract
Nov. 10 Jan Pollmannn, INSTAAR
"The Tale of Atmospheric Hydrocarbons: What do we know, what do we not know and why do we care?"
Abstract
Nov. 17 Dylan Ward, INSTAAR
"The use of cosmogenic radionuclides in stratigraphy: Application to the Nenana Gravel, Alaska Range."
Abstract
Nov. 24 NO TALK, Thanksgiving break
Dec. 01 Double Billing:
Duane White
"Big glaciers, limited erosion: constraining the Pleistocene history of the Lambert Glacier, East Antarctica with cosmogenic exposure ages."
Trevor Popp and Shad O'Neel, INSTAAR
"Practice Talks for AGU."
Dec. 08 NO TALK, AGU - American Geophysical Union Fall Meeting
Spring 2005
(Organized by Annalisa Schilla and Paul Abood )
Jan. 13 Ryan Vachon, INSTAAR
"The reality of high-altitude ice coring."
Abstract
Jan. 20 Dan Liptzin, INSTAAR
"Nutrient dynamics in the forest-tundra ecotone, Niwot Ridge."
Jan. 27 Jessica Black, INSTAAR
"Sinking by iceberg, a hair-raising tale of survival on a barge, in the midst of a swarm of icebergs...(or - Holocene history of Hvitarvatn, Iceland)."
Abstract
Feb. 03 Special 1.5 hour session, 4:30-6:00
"The Endurance: Shackleton's Legendary Antarctic Expedition: A 1.5 hour documentary from filmmaker George Butler."
Feb. 10 Kenneth Mack, INSTAAR
"A quick overview of a 5-box model for d13C-CH4 data to constrain methane source estimates."
Abstract
Feb. 17 George Butler, filmmaker
"Discussion of the film. The Endurance: Shackleton's Legendary Antarctic Expedition."
Feb. 24 Jocelyn Turnbull , INSTAAR
"Science, Sushi and the Stratosphere: All about my summer doing science in Japan on an NSF fellowship."
Mar. 03 Nataly Ascarrunz, INSTAAR
"Precipitation effects on soil biogeochemistry: Moving dirt around eastern Bolivia."
Abstract
Mar. 10 Florence Bocquet , INSTAAR
"Air-snow Interactions: Summit, Greenland and Niwot Ridge, Colorado. Two different places in the world, two different stories."
Abstract
Mar. 17 Annalisa Schilla, INSTAAR
"Climate Insights from the Siple Dome Ice Core."
Abstract
Mar. 24 NO TALK, Spring Break
Mar. 31 Rose Cory and Chris Jaros, INSTAAR
"Pony Lake, Cape Royds, Ross Island, Antarctica: Interested in a chance-of-a-lifetime time-share opportunity?"
Abstract
Apr. 07 Tara Chesley, INSTAAR
"Mineralogy, sediment, and foraminiferal history of Djúpáll, Iceland: Reconstructing a past record."
Abstract
Apr. 14 John Hollin, INSTAAR
"Glaciological expeditions to North East Land, Spitsbergen, in 1951 and 1955."
Apr. 21 Dan Cordalis, INSTAAR
"Mountain hydrology: using environmental isotopes to characterize sources and flowpaths of acid mine drainage."
Apr. 28 Yarrow Axford, INSTAAR
"Warm times in the Arctic: Using lake sediments to reconstruct past temperatures on Iceland and Baffin Island."
May 05 NO TALK, Final Exams
Fall 2004
(Organized by Annalisa Schilla and Paul Abood )
Sep. 02 Grad Student Meeting (mandatory).
Sep. 09 Paul Abood, INSTAAR.
"Alpine lakes as hotspots of dissolved organic carbon production."
Sep. 16 Hans-Peter
Marshall, INSTAAR.
"Measurements of snow stratigraphy using high frequency microwave
radar at the Swiss Federal Institute for Snow and Avalanche Research (SLF)."
Abstract
Sep. 23 Zach Guido,
INSTAAR.
"Bolivia: Pachamama, Erytrhroxylon Coca Lamarck and bald bus tires.
A tour of bolivia's social, political and geographical character based on three
years of living in a rural town working for the peace corps."
Sep. 30 NO TALK, Fall Break
Oct. 07 Nancy Hoalst Pullen,
INSTAAR.
"Getting down and dirty in the tropics: Hydrologic flowpaths and soil
properties of small tropical forest catchments."
Oct. 14 Trevor Popp, INSTAAR.
"North Greenland Ice Core Project (NGRIP): New results from 2004 and
fingerprinting abrupt climate change."
Abstract
Oct. 21 Sasha Reed, INSTAAR.
"Controls on nitrogen fixation in a tropical lowland rainforest, plus
some video of Costa Rican wildlife."
Abstract
Oct. 28 Dylan
Ward, INSTAAR.
"New constraints on the late Cenozoic incision history of the New River,
Virginia."
Abstract
Nov. 04 James Syvitski, INSTAAR
Director.
"How to make the most of your graduate career
at INSTAAR."
Slide
Show
Nov. 11 Discussion
of graduate student concerns.
Concerns include:
Nov. 18 Tim Tomaszewski, INSTAAR.
"Sprucing things up with foliar nitrogen spray at a
Colorado subalpine forest."
Abstract
Nov. 25 NO TALK, Thanksgiving
Dec. 02 Wim Lekens,
University of Bergen, Norway.
"Complex climate variations in a glacial world: examples from
the southern Norwegian Sea."
Abstract
Spring 2004
(Organized by Gréta Björk Kristjánsdóttir and
Yarrow Axford )
Jan. 22 Craig Lee, INSTAAR.
"Ice patch archeology in Colorado? A review of paleontological discoveries
and archeological possibilities."
Jan. 29 NO TALK
Feb. 05 Natalie Mladenov,
INSTAAR.
"A biocultural assessment: landscape effects on organic matter,
transport modeling, and ecosystem economics in the Okavango Delta of
Botswana."
Feb. 12 Sarah Stapleton,
INSTAAR.
"Climate, streamflow, and salmon in the Yakima River basin."
Feb. 19 Gréta Björk
Kristjánsdóttir, INSTAAR.
"Mg/Ca paleotemperature estimates from Arctic benthic foraminifera:
New calibrations and application to the last two millennia."
Feb. 26 Jocelyn Turnbull, INSTAAR.
"Detection of fossil fuel CO2 emissions: using radiocarbon as
a tracer."
Mar. 04 Trevor Popp, INSTAAR.
" Blue ice at Mt. Moulton, West Antarctica: Weaving together half
of a million years of climate using a volcanic clock." Abstract
Mar. 11 NO TALK, Arctic Workshop
Special Meeting Time 4 - 5:30
Mar. 18 Job search and career advice panel: Valentine
Roche, CU Graduate Student Career Counselor; Dr. James Syvitski, Director of
INSTAAR and Professor of Geological Sciences; and Dr. Karen MacClune, a recent
CU/INSTAAR alum and consultant with S.S. Papadopulos and Associates.
"What happens after INSTAAR?"
Mar. 25 NO TALK, Spring Break
Apr. 01 Jan Pollman
"Development of a method for the analysis of sesquiterpenes
in ambient air." Abstract
Apr. 08 Shad O´Neel,
INSTAAR
"Force balance analysis at Columbia Glacier." Abstract
Apr. 15 Rose Cory,
INSTAAR
"Explanation of the Fluorescence Index." Abstract
Apr. 22 Yarrow Axford,
INSTAAR
"Glaciers, bugs, and ancient mud: Reconstructing 10,000 years
of climate change in Iceland."
Apr. 29 Carl Bern,
INSTAAR
"Biogeochemistry, isotopes, and tectonics in Costa Rica." Abstract
May 06 NO TALK, Last day of finals
Fall 2003
(Organized by Gréta Björk Kristjánsdóttir
and Yarrow Axford)
Sep. 04 Trevor Popp, INSTAAR, "Ice core to bedrock at NorthGRIP, Greenland: Last Interglacial ice and subglacial water." Abstract
Sep. 11 John Ortega, INSTAAR, "Biogenic flux measurements at a northern mixed hardwood forest." Abstract
Sep. 18 Rose Cory, INSTAAR, "Preliminary results from the 2003 Alaskan Field Season: Effect of dissolved organic matter on the indirect photolysis of persistant organic pollutants." Abstract
Sep. 25 Florence Bocquet, INSTAAR, "Photochemical ozone loss in snow at Summit, Greenland." Abstract
Oct. 02 No Talk, CU Fall Break
Oct. 09 Ken Mack, INSTAAR, "Constraining the Budget: The measurement of deltaD of atmospheric methane." Abstract
Oct. 16 Tyler Erickson, INSTAAR, "Modeling the spatial distribution of snow in rugged terrain."
Oct. 23 Rose Cory, INSTAAR,"Microbially-mediated ferric iron reduction in Nymph Lake, Colorado." Abstract
Oct. 30 GSA Practice Talks, including:
Jason Briner, INSTAAR, "Paired cosmogenic isotope data provide insights into glacial-landscape evolution along eastern Baffin Island, Arctic Canada."
Brian Clarke, Deptartment of Geology, University of Colorado at Boulder, "Cosmogenic exposure dating vertical transects in the fiord landscape of northeastern Baffin Island: insights into glacial erosion."
Nov. 06 Hans-Peter Marshall, INSTAAR, "High Frequency Radar measurements and slope stability modeling in alpine snowpacks: development of tools for avalanche prediction and snow hydrology." Abstract
Nov. 13 Ryan Vachon, INSTAAR, "Stories from the Drop: Stable isotopes of precipitation." Abstract
Nov. 20 Keri Holland, INSTAAR, "Short-term fate of nitrogen in alpine tundra." Abstract
Nov. 27 No Talk, Thanksgiving Holiday
Dec. 04 Kari-Lise Rorvik, University of Tromsø, "Last Glacial Maximum: a high resolution record from isotope stage 2 in the NE Nordic Seas."
Spring 2003
(Organized by John Ortega)
Jan. 23 John Ortega, INSTAAR, "Biogenic emissions of Volatile Organic Compounds: A Practice talk for my upcoming oral comprehensive exam to my department (PAOS) ." Abstract
Jan. 30 John Hollin, INSTAAR, "1958, the International Geophysical Year, film footage of Wilkes Station, Antarctica."
Feb. 06 Bob Anderson, Professor, UC Santa Cruz, Candidate for Terrestrial Quaternary Geology position with Dept of Geological Sciences, "A discussion with grad students (INSTAAR, Geological Sciences, and more)."
Feb. 13 Constanze Wehenmehyer, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, Candidate for Terrestrial Quaternary Geology position with Dept of Geological Sciences, "A discussion with grad students (INSTAAR, Geological Sciences, and more)."
Feb. 20 Jessica Black, INSTAAR, "Can a Little Ice Age climate signal be detected in the Southern Alps of New Zealand?." Abstract
Feb. 27 Natalie Mladenov, INSTAAR, "Sources, transport and chemical quality of dissolved organic carbon in a large annually flooded wetland, the Okavango Delta, Botswana." Abstract
Adina Racoviteanu, INSTAAR, "Glacial archaeology for high-altitude Inca sanctuaries in the Peruvian Andes: Climate,Volcanoes and GIS."
Mar. 06 Thomas Hoffmann, Department of Geography, University of Bonn, Germany, "Modelling the Holocene sediment budget of a large-scale fluvial system (Rhine River)." Abstract
Mar. 13 John Behrendt, INSTAAR, "40 years on the Ice: An Antarctic slideshow from the International Geophysical year to the present".
Mar. 20 Cancelled due to snowstorm.
Mar. 27 NO TALK, CU Spring Break
Apr. 03 Karen Cozzetto, Jenny Baeseman, John Gartner, INSTAAR, "Streams of the Dry Valleys, Antarctica - 2002-2003 Field Season."
Apr. 10 Cancelled.
Apr. 17 Eileen Gardner, INSTAAR, "The effects of atmospheric nitrogen deposition on seasonal dynamics of phytoplankton in an alpine lake."
Apr. 24 Gita Dunhill, INSTAAR, "Snorri Drift: A 200 kyr oceanographic and sedimentary record."
May 01 Roy Coulthard, INSTAAR, "The last deglaciation of the Aston Lowlands, Baffin Island, Eastern Canadian Arctic: solving the marine limit enigma."
Fall 2002
(Organized by John Ortega)
Sep. 12 Johan Temnerud, Rebro University, Sweden, "Spatial variation of dissolved organic carbon (DOC), an example from Northern Sweden." Abstract
Sep. 19 John Ortega, INSTAAR, "Biogenic emissions of Volatile Organic Compounds: 2002 summer field session at the University of Michigan Biological Station." Abstract
Sep. 26 Rose Corey, INSTAAR, "The concentration and composition of soil water dissolved organic matter across Olympic National Park, WA."Abstract
Oct. 03 Sarah Principato, INSTAAR, "Glacial geology on the NWP, Iceland: 2002 Field Results." Abstract
Oct. 10 NO TALK, University Fall Break
Oct. 17 Meredith Newman, INSTAAR visiting Scientist, Associate Professor of Chemistry and Geology, Hartwick College, Oneonta, NY, "What’s it like to teach?" Abstract
Oct. 24 Jocelyn Turnbull , INSTAAR, "In the land of Genghis Khan. Travels in Mongolia: a totally non-scientific slide show."
Oct. 31 Jason Briner, INSTAAR, An ice-stream dominated northeastern Laurentide Ice Sheet?"
Nov. 07 James Syvitski, INSTAAR Director, "The art and science of journal publishing." Abstract
Nov. 14 Trevor Popp, INSTAAR, "Abrupt climate change recorded in Greenland ice cores: New results from NorthGRIP."
Nov. 21 Chris Jaros, INSTAAR, will show a slideshow from his Antarctic field work entitled "Why John Gardner can't be here today..."
Nov. 28 NO TALK, Thanksgiving Holiday
Dec. 05 NO TALK, American Geophysical Union Fall Meeting (San Francisco)
Dec. 12 H.P. Marshall, INSTAAR, "Avalanche science: How can ground penetrating radar and finite element models further our understanding of snow slope stability?" Abstract
Spring, 2002
(Organized by David Kinner)
Jan. 24 Francesca Smith, "The record of ancient grasslands held in the carbon isotope signature of fossil phytoliths (silica bodies made by grasses)." Abstract
Jan. 31 Special time and speaker, 4 PM, INSTAAR Paleoclimate Candidate Lecture: Tim Barrows, Research School of Physical Sciences, Australian National University, "The last Ice Age in Australia--Applications of exposure dating using cosmogenic isotopes."
Feb. 07 Special time and speaker, 4 PM, INSTAAR Paleoclimate Candidate Lecture: Tom Marchitto, Lamont Doherty Earth Observatory, Columbia Univ, "Reconstructing glacial-interglacial carbonate ion excursions in the deep Pacific."
Feb. 14 Laura Belanger will present some of her master's research findings on acid mine drainage, Snake River Watershed, Summit County, Colorado. Abstract
Feb. 21 NO TALK, Community Sediment Model Meeting.
Feb. 28 Jason Briner, "Did Younger Dryas climate change make it to Alaska? - New evidence from lake cores and the glacial record."
Mar. 07 Ryan Vachon, "Three guys avoiding science in the Cordillera Blanca, Peru".
Mar. 14 NO TALK, Arctic Workshop.
Mar. 21 Erin VanMatre, "Ten years of phytoplankton ecology in the McMurdo Dry Valleys, Antarctica."
Mar. 28 NO TALK, Spring Break.
Apr. 04 David Mixon, "In search of the lost reservoir: an adventure in GIS." Abstract
Apr. 11 Steve DeVogel, "Paleo-lake levels of Lake Eyre, Australia: Reconstructed using GIS." Abstract
Apr. 18 NO TALK. Speaker conflict.
Apr. 25 Greta Bjork Kristjiansdottr, "Late Quaternary sediment deposition in Eyjafjardar‡ll, N Iceland shelf: what the heck happened in the early Holocene?" Abstract
May 02 Irina Overeem, INSTAAR Post Doc "The Late Cenozoic Eridanos delta system in the Southern North Sea Basin: a climate signal in sediment supply?" Abstract
Fall, 2001
(Organized by H.P. Marshall )
Sept. 13 Hans-Peter (H.P.) Marshall, "Snow avalanche physics: Slope stability and related problems" or "Dude, like, ya think if i bomb through this mega-gnarly chute its gonna slide on me?"
Sept. 20 Sarah Principato, "Glacial geology of the Isafjardardjup Coast, NWP Iceland: 2001 preliminary field results."
Sept. 27 Dave Kinner, "Calculating the sediment budget of a meso-scale river basin: Preliminary observations and the geomorphic carbon sink."
Oct. 04 NO TALK (Fall Break)
Oct. 11 John Ortega, "Flux measurements
of volatile organic compounds by disjunct eddy
sampling and ion trap mass spectrometry analysis."
Oct. 18 NO TALK (cancelled)
Oct. 25 Ryan Vachon, "Figuring out the
distribution of stable isotopes of precitation
across the US - Breaking down isotope theory"
Nov. 01 Practice GSA talks
Francesca Smith, "Phytolith carbon isotope records of Neogene grasses."
Jason Briner (if he can pull it together), "Latest glacial geology results from Baffin Island."
Nov. 08 NO TALK (GSA)
Nov. 15 Trevor Popp, "New deep ice core In Greenland: Life, drilling, and progress at NorthGRIP."
Nov. 22 NO TALK (Thanksgiving)
Nov. 29 Michael Gooseff , "A dissertation
defense encore presentation: Modeling hyporheic exchange
influences on biogeochemical processes in Dry Valley streams, Antarctica."
Dec. 06 Practice AGU talks
Dec. 13 NO TALK (AGU)
Jan. 18 Eran Hood, "Innovative techniques for assessing the source and quality of dissolved organic material (DOM) in a high-elevation catchment."
Jan. 25 Laura Mujica-Crapanzano, "Landscape analysis of vegetation and diversity patterns on Niwot Ridge, Colorado."
Feb. 01 Durelle T. Scott, "Manganese cycling in a mountain stream."
Feb. 08 Mikie Smith, "Hidden secrets of forams and stories of past gas in the Denmark Strait."
Feb. 15 James Syvitski, "A fireside chat with the Director on stress management (and securing a job)." (Pizza will be served!)
Feb. 22 Andres Torizzo, "Relations between surface-water chemistry and basin characteristics in high-elevation watersheds, Rocky Mountain National Park, Colorado."
Mar. 01 Isla Castañeda, "Fun with forams: Holocene isotopic data from the N. Iceland continental shelf."
Mar. 08 Jason Briner, "Glacial History of northeastern Baffin Island: A progress report from year one."
Mar. 15 Lee Turner, "TBA."
Mar. 22 NO TALK, Arctic Workshop
Mar. 29 NO TALK, Spring Break
Apr. 05 NO OFFICIAL TALK, instead there will
be a thesis defense
Eric August, "Influence
of a Wetland on Water Quality in a
Rocky Mountain
Watershed Impacted by Acid Mine Drainage."
Apr. 12 Alex Brown, "South Pole Station, Antarctica: Science, Construction and Life at the Bottom of the World."
Apr. 19 Gita Dunhill, "2000 Ski Mobiles, 3000 Polar Bears, and 1400 People" (Studies on Svalbard)."
Apr. 26 Dave Kinner, "Determining Hydrologic Flowpaths in a Tropical Forest Using Hydrologic and Geochemical Evidence."
May 03 TBA, "TBA."
Fall, 2000
(Organized by Sarah Principato)
Sep. 14 Ryan Vachon, "Proof that I did Science in Denali: coolest stable isotopes."
Sep. 21 Eric August, "A Year in the Life of a Wetland and Stream Impacted by Acid Mine Drainage."
Sep. 28 Noah Daniels, "The 40,000 diatom question: even closer to a drought