BIOSKETCH

In the fall of 2006 I moved from Madison, WI to Boulder, CO to begin a PhD program at the University of Colorado - Boulder Department of Geosciences and the Institute of Arctic and Alpine Research. So I've become another one of the many Boulder immigrants. Hopefully I won't develop the attitude so many of the rest of them seem to have...

CONTACT

 

Address:
Institute of Arctic and Alpine Research
University of Colorado - Boulder
1560 30th Street 450 UCB
Boulder, CO 80303

Office Phone:
303-492-0595

Email:
Kurt.Refsnider@Colorado.edu


EDUCATION

 

Ph.D. - University of Colorado - Boulder (in progress...)
Adviser: Gifford Miller

M.S. - University of Wisconsin - Madison (2006)
Thesis: Late Quaternary glacial and climate history of the Provo River drainage, Uinta Mountains, Utah
Adviser: David Mickelson

B.A. - University of Minnesota - Morris (2004)
Major in Geology, minor in Chemistry


RESEARCH INTERESTS

 

Rocky Mountain glacial history
Rock glaciers and periglacial geomorphology
Terrestrial cosmogenic nuclide applications
Landscape evolution
Quaternary climate change


GRANTS & HONORS

- National Speleological Society Ralph W. Stone Graduate Fellowship, 2008
- CU Beverly Sears Graduate Student Research Grant, 2008
- CU Dept. of Geological Sciences Shell Research Award, 2008
- Geological Society of America Graduate Research Grant, 2005, 2008
- Colorado Scientific Society Pierce Award, 2006
- American Alpine Club Research Grant, 2006
- UW Dept. of Geology and Geophysics Stanley Tyler Award for Excellence in Teaching, 2005
- Indiana University Geology Field Camp Outstanding Student Award, 2004
- National Science Foundation Graduate Research Fellowship Honorable Mention, 2004
- UMM Edith Rodgers Farrell Memorial Award for outstanding undergraduate research, 2004

PROFESSIONAL
AFFILIATIONS

Geological Society of America
American Geophysical Union
National Speleological Society
Colorado Scientific Society
American Alpine Club

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