INSTAAR Support Personnel

INSTAAR Support Staff

A group of INSTAAR administrative, computer, editorial, and library staff; February 2005. Front row from left: Julie Hughes, Mary Fentress, Kathryn Clegg, Shelly Sommer, and Martha LaForge. Back row: Sedrick Frazier, Wesley Mendez, Chad Stoffel, and Larry Bowlds. Photo: T. Pfeffer (INSTAAR).

Spring 2006

Administrative and Classified Staff

Kathryn Clegg
Accounting Technician III, provides grants and contract management.

Mary Fentress
Accounting Technician IV, provides grants and contract management.

Sedrick Frazier
Accounting Technician III, provides grants and contract management.

Jenifer Hall-Bowman
Administrative Assistant II, provides assistance for Journal and Information Center.

Julie Hughes
Chief Financial Officer, acts as main financial officer for the institute and its faculty.

Marcia Kelly
Assistant to Director, provides administrative support to the Director of the Institute, the Chief Financial Officer, Institute Committees, and Institute Members.

Wendy (Freeman) Roth
Sediment Lab Coordinator.

James Syvitski
Director.

Computer Staff

David Lubinski
Webmaster (part time).

Chad Stoffel
System/Network Administrator (full time)

Editorial and Library Staff

Larry Bowlds
Managing editor of INSTAAR's interdisciplinary journal: Arctic, Antarctic, and Alpine Research (AAAR). Journal web page

Shelly Sommer
Manager of INSTAAR's Information Center. Information Center web page

Senior Research Scientists

Chris Jenkins
PhD, Cambridge, UK, Personal Web Page

Professional Scientists and Research Support Personnel

A group of INSTAAR Professional Scientists and Research Support Personnel, February 2005. Front row from left: David Mixon, Todd Ackerman, Bruce Vaughn, Valerie Claymore, and Sylvia Englund. Back row: Eric Parrish, Albert Kettner, Sean Pack, and Richard Kraemer. Photo: T. Pfeffer (INSTAAR).

Todd Ackerman
Primary Duties: LTER data and information management. Research Interests: Data management and information technology. Supervisor: Tim Seastedt.

Henry Adams
Primary Duties: Tree-ring sample collection, preparation, dating, measurement, and quality-control analysis. Research Interests: Dendroecology, effects of climate change on forests, tree ecophysiology. Supervisor: Connie Woodhouse.

Kathy Anderson
Primary Duties: Paleoclimatological studies on a continental scale in North America, using pollen, plant macrofossils, and modern vegetation to look at past and future climate and vegetation changes. Supervisor: Connie Woodhouse

Florence Bocquet
Primary Duties: Assistant laboratory manager of the Atmospheric Research Laboratory. Development, testing and application of analytical tools for field measurements. Research Interests: Arctic/Antarctic snow-atmosphere gas exchange. Supervisor: Detlev Helmig.

Tara Chesley
Primary Duties: hydrogen and oxygen isotope analysis in water. Supervisor: Bruce Vaughn.

Kurt Chowanski
Primary Duties: Maintaining and operating instruments measuring Total Disolved Nitrogen and Carbon. Research Interests: Dissolved Organic Matter. Supervisor: Mark Williams.

Stephen DeVogel
Primary Duties: Laboratory manager, Amino Acid Lab. Supervisor: Gifford Miller.

Allison Drake
Primary Duties: Isotopic analysis in greenhouse gases, paleo climate modeling. Supervisor: Bruce Vaughn.

Mark Dreier
Primary Duties: Assistant laboratory manager in Stable Isotope Laboratory. Provide technical expertise with the hardware, develop new systems, maintain old systems,and rebuild mass spectrometers and vacuum pumps. Supervisor: Bruce Vaughn.

Sylvia Englund
Primary Duties: Isotopic analysis in greenhouse gases. Research Interests: Stable isotopes in atmospheric carbon dioxide and methane. Changes in biogeochemical cycles caused by invasive species. Supervisor: Bruce Vaughn.

Rhea Esposito
Primary Duties: Assisting with scientific paper preparation. Research Interests: Antarctic diatoms. Supervisor: Sarah Spaulding.

Jacques Hueber
Primary Duties: Development of instrumentation for atmospheric measurements. Maintenance of existing instruments. Supervisor: Detlev Helmig.

Eric Hutton
Primary Duties: maintain and develop numerical models that predict the spatial and temporal distribution of marine sediments. Research Interests: sediment transport, computational fluid dynamics, and geophysics. Supervisor: Scott Peckham.

Chris Jaros
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Albert Kettner
Primary Duties: Develop numerical code of hydrological process model HYDROTREND, develop and maintain web-based GIS applications, collect paleo-climate data for scenario modeling (Geo clutter project). Research Interests: Programming and GIS applied to Earth science issues. Supervisor: James Syvitski. Project Web Page | Personal Web Page

Richard Kraemer
Primary Duties: Stable isotopes in atmospheric methane. Research Interests: Stable isotopes in atmospheric methane and the biological sources. Supervisor: James White.

Mark Losleben
Primary Duties: Long term climatic database management, atmospheric and precipitation measurements. Research Interests: long term climatic trends and related processes effecting Niwot Ridge. Supervisor: Bill Bowman.

Jeff Lukas
Primary Duties: Tree-ring sample collection, dating, measuring, and data analysis. Research Interests: Climate variability in the interior West and its effects on human activities and ecosystems. Supervisor: Connie Woodhouse.

Eric Parrish
Primary Duties: Create graphics and GIS based products, Information and image management, Scientific illustration, and support. Research Interests: Scientific illustration, ArcGIS, Remote Sensing and graphic software applications. Supervisor: E. James Dixon.

Jan Pollmann
Primary Duties: Quantification of anthropogenic and biogenic volatile organic compounds using gas chromatography techniques . Research Interests: Anthropogenic and biogenic trace gas sources and their measurement. Supervisor: Detlev Helmig.

Christine Seibold
Primary Duties: Environmental Chemistry Laboratory Manager. Research Interests: Long-term ecological research chemistries. Supervisor: Tim Seastedt. Personal Web Page

Steve Seibold
Primary Duties: Manager Mountain Research Station. Supervisor: Bill Bowman.

David Tanner
Primary Duties: Development of instrumentation for atmospheric measurements. Maintenance of existing instruments. Supervisor: Detlev Helmig.

Jocelyn Turnbull
Primary Duties: Manages Laboratory for AMS Radiocarbon Preparation and Research which provides radiocarbon dating services to the NSF-ESH community as well as in house research. Research Interests: improved radiocarbon dating techniques. Supervisor: Scott Lehman. Lab Web Page

Joanne Turner
Primary Duties: Geoarchaeological assistant. Research Interests: Earliest peopling of the Americas and sources of raw materials for stone tools. Supervisor: James Syvitski.

Bruce Vaughn
Primary Duties: Oversees the operation of the Stable Isotope Lab that performs isotopic analyses on atmospheric CO2, CH4, polar ice cores, water, and organic materials. The facility is comprised of several labs, and houses multiple prep systems, off line extraction systems, computing facilities, and six mass spectrometers. Research Interests: collaborative isotopic studies in ice cores, glaciers, atmospheric gases, and global change in general. Supervisor: Jim White. Lab Web Page

Kris White
Primary Duties: Research assistant providing support to Townsend and White for the Carbon, Climate, and Society Initiative IGERT Program. Supervisor: Alan Townsend.

Chad Wolak
Primary Duties: Laboratory manager, Sediment Geochemistry Lab. Research Interests: Climate reconstruction using alkenone-derived sea-surface temperatures. Supervisor: Scott Lehman.

Past Personnel

An archive of INSTAAR support personnel lists