INSTAAR Noon Seminar - Powerpoint Presentations

INSTAAR Presentation Archive

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Selected seminar presentations have been posted here to foster communication with the science community and the public. Most of the presentations were originally given in PowerPoint format; they were converted to Adobe PDF for posting. You may need to install the free Adobe Acrobat Reader to view these files; some files require version 5 or greater (If using an insufficient version, you will receive an error message and a prompt to upgrade). To see the animations, you may also need to install the free Quicktime Player (some animations require Quicktime 6).

These presentations are "works in progress". They are not peer reviewed. They should not be referenced for any kind of publication. Contact the author for proper references and additional information before any use, even for unpublished works such as your own presentations.

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Fall, 2003

25 Aug. Jonathon A. Warrick, Coastal and Marine Geology, US Geological Survey, Menlo Park.
"Land sources and ocean dispersal of river sediment in southern California."
Seminar given at INSTAAR, University of Colorado. Copyright 2003 Jonathon A. Warrick. All Rights Reserved.
Warrick presentation (4.2 Mb PDF).

15 Sep. Carrie Morrill, Advanced Study Program & Climate and Global Dynamics Division, National Center for Atmospheric Research (NCAR).
"Holocene variations in Asian monsoon precipitation: Links to solar forcing and high latitudes."
Seminar given at INSTAAR, University of Colorado. Copyright 2003 Carrie Morrill. All Rights Reserved.
Morrill presentation (1.8 Mb PDF).

22 Sep. Tom Marchitto, INSTAAR.
"Atlantic-Pacific climate teleconnections at millennial time scales."
Seminar given at INSTAAR, University of Colorado. Copyright 2003 Tom Marchitto. All Rights Reserved.
Marchitto presentation (3.1 Mb PDF).

29 Sep. Mervi Hjelmroos-Koski, School of Public Health, University of California, Berkeley.
"Worldwide travelers without a passport."
Seminar given at INSTAAR, University of Colorado. Copyright 2003 Mervi Hjelmroos-Koski. All Rights Reserved.
Hjelmroos-Koski presentation (2.6 Mb PDF).

02 Oct. Robert Anderson, INSTAAR.
"The University of Colorado is an emerging power in surface processes research."
Seminar given to the INSTAAR Science Advisory Committee. Copyright 2003 Robert Anderson. All Rights Reserved.
Anderson presentation (4.2 Mb PDF).

02 Oct. James Syvitski, Director, INSTAAR.
"INSTAAR, State of the Institute Fall 2003."
Seminar given to the INSTAAR Science Advisory Committee. Copyright 2003 James Syvitski. All Rights Reserved.
Syvitski presentation (4 Mb PDF).

02 Oct. Alan Townsend, INSTAAR.
" Isotopic and Molecular Approaches to Understanding the Modern Carbon Cycle."
Seminar given to the INSTAAR Science Advisory Committee. Copyright 2003 Alan Townsend. All Rights Reserved.
Townsend presentation (1.5 Mb PDF).

06 Oct. Gaute Mikalsen, Department of Geology, University of Tromsø, Norway.
" High resolution oxygen isotope records from North Norwegian fjords and shelf, reflecting past and recent oceanographic changes in the Norwegian Current."
Seminar given at INSTAAR, University of Colorado. Copyright 2003 Gaute Mikalsen. All Rights Reserved.
Mikalsen presentation (1.9 Mb PDF).

13 Oct. Jill Baron, Natural Resource Ecology Laboratory (NREL), Colorado State University.
" Land use change and nitrogen emissions along the Colorado Front Range."
Seminar given at INSTAAR, University of Colorado. Copyright 2003 Jill Baron. All Rights Reserved.
Baron presentation (2.4 Mb PDF).

27 Oct. Peter Hess, National Center for Atmospheric Research (NCAR).
" Global chemical modeling at NCAR."
Seminar given at INSTAAR, University of Colorado. Copyright 2003 Peter Hess. All Rights Reserved.
Hess presentation (4.8 Mb PDF)

10 Nov. Steve Schmidt, Ecology & Evolutionary Biology, University of Colorado at Boulder.
" Thriving microbial life beneath winter snow packs and alpine glaciers: Novel organisms and biogeochemical implications"
Seminar given at INSTAAR, University of Colorado. Copyright 2003 Steve Schmidt. All Rights Reserved.
Schmidt presentation (3.4 Mb PDF)

Spring, 2003

03 Feb. Detlev Helmig, INSTAAR and Program in Atmospheric and Oceanic Sciences (PAOS).
" New insights into snow-photochemical processes and snow-atmosphere gas exchange (if you ever wonder what may happen in your freezer if the light stays on)."
Seminar given at INSTAAR, University of Colorado. Copyright 2003 Detlev Helmig. All Rights Reserved.
Helmig presentation (2.2 Mb PDF).

10 Mar. Chris Jenkins, INSTAAR.
“ The Importance of Being Uncertain.”
Seminar given at INSTAAR, University of Colorado. Copyright 2003 Chris Jenkins. All Rights Reserved.
Jenkins presentation (0.8 Mb PDF).

31 Mar.     Eric Leonard, Geology Department, Colorado College.
" Late Cenozoic tectonic uplift, erosion and isostasy on the Colorado Piedmont."
Seminar given at INSTAAR, University of Colorado. Copyright 2003 Eric Leonard. All Rights Reserved.
Leonard presentation (1.0 Mb PDF).

14 Apr.     Sally MacIntyre, Institute for Computational Earth System Science (ICESS), University of California.
" Thermal structure, internal waves and turbulence in small and moderate sized lakes with implications for biology."
Seminar given at INSTAAR, University of Colorado. Copyright 2003 Sally MacIntyre. All Rights Reserved.
MacIntyre presentation (2.7 Mb PDF).

21 Apr.     Irina Overeem, INSTAAR.
" Quantifying stratigraphic variability; a case-study of the New Jersey shelf over the last 21,000 years."
Seminar given at INSTAAR, University of Colorado. Copyright 2003 Irina Overeem. All Rights Reserved.
Overeem presentation (1.4 Mb PDF).

05 May    Susan Zager, VECO Polar Resources.
" Overview of VECO operations and services." (VECO is the National Science Foundation's Arctic logistics contractor, annually supporting over 100 grants and 500 scientists throughout the Arctic).
Seminar given at INSTAAR, University of Colorado. Copyright 2003 Susan Zager. All Rights Reserved.
Zager presentation (1.3 Mb PDF).

28 Apr.     Larry Benson, U.S. Geological Survey, Denver Federal Center.
" Cosmogenic dating of Pre-Pinedale, Pinedale, and Post-Pinedale moraines in North Central and Southwestern Colorado."
Seminar given at INSTAAR, University of Colorado. Copyright 2003 Larry Benson. All Rights Reserved.
Benson presentation (1.8 Mb PDF).

Fall, 2002

09 Sep. 2002 Diane McKnight et al., INSTAAR.
“Ecological response to nitrogen deposition and climate change in alpine lakes in the Colorado Front Range".
Seminar given at INSTAAR, University of Colorado. Copyright 2002 Diane McKnight. All Rights Reserved.
McKnight presentation (1.3 Mb PDF).

16 Sep. 2002 Larry Barber, USGS.
“Sex, Drugs, and Water : Emerging contaminants in the Boulder Creek Watershed".
Seminar given at INSTAAR, University of Colorado. Copyright 2002 Larry Barber. All Rights Reserved.
Barber presentation (1.1 Mb PDF).

30 Sep. 2002 Inge Aarseth, visiting scientist, Univ. of Bergen, Norway.
“Holocene lacustrine shorelines in bedrock and Late Pleistocene rock platforms in and around Bergen, Norway”.
Seminar given at INSTAAR, University of Colorado. Copyright 2002 Inge Aarseth. All Rights Reserved.
Aarseth presentation (3 Mb PDF).

07 Oct. 2002 Tim Kittel et al., National Center for Atmospheric Research, INSTAAR affiliate.
"Historical and Future Climates of the Rocky Mountains".
Seminar given at INSTAAR, University of Colorado. Copyright 2002 Tim Kittel. All Rights Reserved.
Kittel presentation (0.5 Mb PDF).

14 Oct. 2002 Mark F. Meier, INSTAAR.
“Sea-level rise: a splendid interdisciplinary enigma”.
Seminar given at INSTAAR, University of Colorado. Copyright 2002 Mark F. Meier. All Rights Reserved.
Meier presentation (0.8 Mb PDF).

01 Nov. 2002 Steve Goodbred, State Univ. of New York, Stony Brook.
"The Ganges-Brahmaputra sediment dispersal system: Controls, responses, and stratigraphy during the Late Quaternary".
Seminar given at INSTAAR, University of Colorado. Copyright 2002 Steve Goodbred. All Rights Reserved.
Goodbred presentation (3.6 Mb PDF).

25 Nov. 2002 Scott Peckham, INSTAAR.
" TopoFlow: A new distributed hydrologic model based on ARHYTHM and RiverTools."
Seminar given at INSTAAR, University of Colorado. Copyright 2002 Scott Peckham. All Rights Reserved.
Peckham presentation (0.9 Mb PDF) | Peckham animation (1.6 Mb .mov Quicktime)