INSTAAR Noon Seminar

INSTAAR Noon Seminars

12-1 PM Mondays, RL-3, 6th Floor Auditorium, Room 620
For directions to RL-3, see INSTAAR Map pages
These seminars are open to the public. All are welcome!

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Spring 2008
Talks organized by Anne Jennings (Anne.Jennings@colorado.edu)

14 Jan. Tom Marchitto, INSTAAR.
"Marine radiocarbon evidence for the mechanism of atmospheric CO2 rise at the end of the last ice age."

21 Jan. NO TALK, Martin Luther King Holiday

24 Jan. Matt Sturm, USA-CRREL-Alaska
"A vision for INSTAAR, followed by Town Hall Question and Answer Session"
Note Special Day, Time, and Event: Candidate for new INSTAAR Director.
Thursday 3:00 pm- 4:00 pm, RL-3, ARC # 620

25 Jan. Matt Sturm, USA-CRREL-Alaska
"White on green: Snow, shrubs, and the changing climate of the Arctic"
Note Special Location and Event: Candidate for new INSTAAR Director.
Friday 12:45 pm - 1:45 pm, Benson Earth Sciences room 380
30 minute reception before the talk
Abstract

28 Jan. Larry Benson, USGS.
"The rise and fall of the midwestern Cahokians and the southwestern Anasazi."
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04 Feb. NO TALK

06 Feb. Bill Curry, Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution
"The Atlantic Ocean deep circulation 21,000 years ago"
Note Special Location and Event: Candidate for new INSTAAR Director.
Wednesday 4:00 pm - 5:00 pm, Benson Earth Sciences room 380
30 minute reception before the talk
Abstract

07 Feb. Bill Curry, Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution
"A vision for INSTAAR, followed by Town Hall Question and Answer Session"
Note Special Day, Time, and Event: Candidate for new INSTAAR Director.
Thursday 2:00 pm- 3:00 pm, RL-3, ARC # 620

11 Feb. NO TALK

14 Feb. Jonathan Overpeck, U. of Arizona
"A vision for INSTAAR, followed by Town Hall Question and Answer Session"
Note Special Day, Time, and Event: Candidate for new INSTAAR Director.
Thursday 2:00 pm- 3:00 pm, RL-3, ARC # 620

15 Feb. Jonathan Overpeck, U. of Arizona
"Climate change, sea level, and western drought: Dangerous anthropogenic interference?"
Note Special Location and Event: Candidate for new INSTAAR Director.
Friday Noon - 1:00 pm, Benson Earth Sciences room 380
Followed by lunch with geology faculty 1:00-2:00pm
Abstract

18 Feb. Jim White, U. of Colorado at Boulder
"A vision for INSTAAR, followed by Town Hall Question and Answer Session"
Note Special Event: Candidate for new INSTAAR Director.
Monday 12:00 pm- 1:00 pm, RL-3, ARC # 620

19 Feb. Jim White, U. of Colorado at Boulder
"Past climate and modern greenhouse gases: research directions in INSTAAR's Stable Isotope Lab"
Note Special Location and Event: Candidate for new INSTAAR Director.
Tuesday 4:00 pm - 5:00 pm, Benson Earth Sciences room 380
30 minute reception before the talk
Abstract

25 Feb. Irina Overeem, INSTAAR & CSDMS, Community Surface Dynamics Modeling System
"Arctic Rivers; are they unique and are they changing?"
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03 Mar. NO TALK, 38th Annual Arctic Workshop at INSTAAR.

10 Mar. Detlev Helmig, INSTAAR.
"INSTAAR goes to sea."
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17 Mar. Malcolm Hughes, CIRES Visiting Fellow 2007-2008; Laboratory of Tree-Ring Research, University of Arizona,
"Confounded mystery in the mountains: the case of ancient pines."
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24 Mar. NO TALK, Spring Break

31 Mar. Andrew Todd, Research Biologist, U.S. Geological Survey.
"Development of a zinc stable isotope technique to determine metal pathways and bioavailability to aquatic organisms."
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07 Apr. Jan Harff, Baltic Sea Research Institute, Warnemunde.
""Expedition to Western Greenland Shelf and Fjords, June-July, 2007, within the frame of the IPYs.."
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14 Apr. Ken Strzepek, CEAE, CU-Boulder.
"Potential climate change impacts on Boulder Creek: Back to the future."
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21 Apr. Mark Williams, INSTAAR.
"Save our snow: Potential impacts of climate change on western U.S. ski areas for the years 2030, 2070 and 2100."
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28 Apr. Jason Janke, Department of Earth and Atmospheric Sciences, Metropolitan State College, Denver.
"Modeling permafrost distribution in the Front Range, Colorado."
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05 May Aslaug Geirsdottir, University of Iceland.
"A Holocene record of climate variation and soil erosion reconstructed from Haukadalsvatn, West Iceland."
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12 May NO TALK, Spring classes are finished

Past Seminars

An archive of past INSTAAR Noon Seminars