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Past Seminars

INSTAAR Seminar: Dr. Benjamin Lehmann - The evolution of mountain geom… March 14, 2022
INSTAAR Seminar: Robert Stallard March 7, 2022
INSTAAR Seminar: Dr. Xin Lan - Improved Constraints on Global Methane… February 28, 2022
INSTAAR Seminar: Dr. Laura Whitmore - Using multiple geochemical trace… February 21, 2022
INSTAAR Seminar: Dr. Tim Seastedt - Soil Carbon Sequestration… February 14, 2022
INSTAAR Seminar: Dr. Joseph Tamborski - Groundwater and “blue carbon… February 7, 2022
INSTAAR seminar: Dr. Kim Wickland - Changing Water Distribution &… January 31, 2022
INSTAAR seminar: Miguel Goñi - Mobilization & export of particula… January 24, 2022
INSTAAR seminar: Shad O’Neel - Building capacity to measure snow November 29, 2021
Joint Earth Seminar: Bandana Kar - Enhancing energy resilience to chan… November 17, 2021
INSTAAR seminar: Kyotaek Hwang - Ground-based infrared thermometry rev… November 15, 2021
INSTAAR seminar: Lori Bruhwiler - Uncertainty in the global methane bu… November 8, 2021
Joint Earth Seminar: Karen Bailey - Climate change, social capital, an… November 5, 2021
INSTAAR seminar: Brandee Carlson - Linking morphodynamics and stratigr… October 25, 2021
INSTAAR seminar: Aisha Morris - Creating a culture of inclusion for a… October 18, 2021
Joint Earth Seminar: Aradhna Tripati - Carbonate clumped isotope geoch… October 4, 2021
INSTAAR seminar: Katharine Kelsey - Climate change-induced temporal ch… September 27, 2021
INSTAAR seminar: Aparna Bamzai-Dodson - Engaging with stakeholders to… September 20, 2021
Joint Earth Seminar: Maria Molina - Robustness of deep learning in a c… September 3, 2021
INSTAAR seminar: Nuria Catalan - Organic carbon processing across inla… April 26, 2021
INSTAAR seminar: Karen Bailey - Climate change, social capital, and su… April 19, 2021
Joint Earth Seminar: Paula Welander - Synthesis of sponge sterol lipid… April 14, 2021
INSTAAR seminar: Surendra Adhikari - Earth’s rotation and its climat… April 5, 2021
INSTAAR seminar: Erika Johnson - Remote sensing of ocean waves and cur… March 29, 2021
INSTAAR seminar: Karl Rittger - Multi-platform, multi-sensor snow surf… March 22, 2021
INSTAAR seminar: Keith Musselman - Mountains of change: Emerging model… March 8, 2021
Joint Earth Seminar: Aradhna Tripati - postponed to October 4 March 1, 2021
INSTAAR seminar: Structural groupings of brGDGT biomarkers for paleocl… March 1, 2021
INSTAAR seminar: Alejandra Borunda - Science journalism 101, for scien… February 22, 2021
INSTAAR seminar: Astrid Ogilvie - Living with climate change: An intel… February 15, 2021
Joint Earth Seminar: Reza Khatami - Characterizing land cover and vege… February 5, 2021
INSTAAR seminar: Sarah Elmendorf - Warming impacts on Arctic and alpin… February 1, 2021
INSTAAR seminar: Tyler Jones - Hidden climate signals in ice cores January 25, 2021
Joint Earth Seminar: Solomon Bililign - Optical properties & emiss… January 15, 2021
Joint Earth Seminar: Lani Tsinnajinnie - Collaborative hydrologic rese… December 4, 2020
INSTAAR seminar: Mary Beth Leigh - Addressing environmental challenges… November 23, 2020
INSTAAR seminar: Nicole Herman-Mercer - Coupled natural-human systems:… November 16, 2020
INSTAAR seminar: Claire Masteller - Towards understanding the effects… November 9, 2020
Joint Earth Seminar Series: Jabrane Labidi - Hydrothermal 15N15N abund… November 4, 2020
INSTAAR seminar: Jamie McFarlin and Benjamin Campforts October 26, 2020
INSTAAR seminar: Sarah Aarons - The role of dust on Earth’s climate October 19, 2020
INSTAAR seminar: Earle Wilson - The role of polar gyres in Southern Oc… October 12, 2020
Joint Earth Seminar Series: Ray Najjar - Regional & global views o… October 5, 2020
INSTAAR seminar: Elisa van Cleemput - Plant ecology featuring remote s… September 28, 2020
INSTAAR seminar: Pedro DiNezio, Glacial lessons on tropical climate ch… September 21, 2020
INSTAAR seminar: Arctic freshwater storage and export in CMIP6 models September 14, 2020
Joint Earth Seminar Series - Surface transportation meteorology: Weath… September 4, 2020
Impacts of historic and projected land use in the Earth System May 4, 2020
Seasonal controls on the sources and mobilization processes for mercur… April 27, 2020
Forecasting future water availability for hydropower in the Balkan sta… April 20, 2020
Multiscale geophysical imaging of subsurface properties and processes April 13, 2020
Reconfiguring the Chinese electricity sector for capital: The conseque… April 6, 2020
CANCELLED Antarctica at depth March 16, 2020
Arctic coastal changes & their potential importance in a time of g… March 9, 2020
Following the water on the Greenland ice sheet: Re-freezing in firn, s… March 2, 2020
Understanding the diversity of extensional mountain fronts February 24, 2020
Climate ethics and hope February 17, 2020
Our climate predicament February 10, 2020
Understanding the diversity of extensional mountain fronts February 3, 2020
The effects of China’s coal power generation overcapacity on glo… January 27, 2020
Noon seminar: Microtopographic controls on ecosystem functioning: Hi-r… January 13, 2020
No nitrogen fixation in the Bay of Bengal? December 2, 2019
What satellite measurements are telling us about sea level change November 18, 2019
Terrestrial polar amplification during the Cenozoic November 11, 2019
Making data and models FAIR with AI and the semantic web November 4, 2019
Autonomous observations of the polar atmospheric boundary layer October 28, 2019
Stable isotopes of carbon dioxide & methane in NOAA’s Global Gre… October 21, 2019
Isotopic fingerprints of the nitrogen cycle October 14, 2019
Forest fires as a positive feedback on marine anoxia: A paleoclimate c… October 7, 2019
Science design/graphics: How to translate technical scientific data/co… September 30, 2019
Bengal Fan sediment archive: A record of tectonic, climatic and/or aut… September 16, 2019
Movement of junk and old munitions (UXO) on the seafloor during extrem… September 9, 2019
Baked Alaska: Impacts of a warming climate on Alaska’s frozen la… April 29, 2019
Cameras pointed at glaciers: Extracting precise high-frequency glacier… April 22, 2019
Changes in flooding in the 21st century April 15, 2019
Neogene tectonic events in the West Antarctic rift: Implications for l… April 8, 2019
Tectonic geomorphology and soil edaphics as controls on animal migrati… April 1, 2019
Sediment transport in the coastal ocean: Implications for the geologic… March 21, 2019
Leading role of ocean mixing in the Norwegian Sea for Dansgaard-Oeschg… March 20, 2019
Linking mantle convection to surface evolution March 11, 2019
Microbial processes in Arctic sediments February 18, 2019
What can ice cores, water vapor and drones tell us about the health of… January 14, 2019
Wiggly things and generic resilience indicators in ecological time ser… November 26, 2018
A 70-yr history of gaseous pollutants in the northern hemisphere from… November 12, 2018
Stream temperature and the need for thermal-dynamic sediment transport… November 5, 2018
Assessing the predictability and probability of a summer ice-free Arct… October 29, 2018
Biomarkers in Arctic Lakes: From interglacials in Siberia and Baffin t… October 22, 2018
Testing landscape evolution models with natural and synthetic experime… October 15, 2018
INSTAAR Seminar: Post-fire transport and persistence of pyrogenic carb… October 11, 2018
Molluscan sclerochronology and its potential for paleoclimate reconstr… October 8, 2018
Hydroclimate variability in the Southwestern US: From tree rings to cl… October 1, 2018
Millennial soil retention of terrestrial organic matter deposited in t… September 24, 2018
INSTAAR noon seminar: Conservation and restoration of alpine ecosystem… September 17, 2018
INSTAAR seminar: Remote sensing studies of natural and anthropogenic h… April 30, 2018
Experiences in the development and deployment of UAVs for atmospheric… April 26, 2018
INSTAAR seminar: Environmental management of the Colorado River: Scien… April 25, 2018
INSTAAR seminar: The unexplored link between the Amazon forest and tro… April 24, 2018
INSTAAR seminar: Plant-microbe interactions as a driver of ecosystem d… April 23, 2018
INSTAAR seminar: Effect of enhanced cold-season climate warming on per… April 16, 2018
INSTAAR seminar: Human-landscape interactions in mountain ecosystems:… April 9, 2018
INSTAAR seminar: Reconstructing Pliocene hydroclimate April 2, 2018
INSTAAR noon seminar: The Galápagos: A fluke of geology, ocean circul… March 19, 2018
INSTAAR seminar: Martin Doyle March 14, 2018
INSTAAR seminar: Biogeography of an emerging pathogen found in househo… March 5, 2018
INSTAAR seminar: Primary productivity of the biosphere in deep time February 26, 2018
INSTAAR seminar: What can we do about climate change? February 19, 2018
INSTAAR seminar: Advances in biological soil crust restoration in Nort… February 12, 2018
INSTAAR seminar: Insights into the climate evolution since the Last Gl… February 5, 2018
INSTAAR seminar: Paleo & contemporary perspectives on Arctic lake… January 31, 2018
INSTAAR seminar: Sediment dynamics and coupled human-natural systems i… January 22, 2018
Monday Seminar: Determining millenial-scale variations in sediment sou… December 4, 2017
Monday Seminar: Losing breath: The future of ocean oxygen November 27, 2017
Monday Seminar: Dead dinosaurs and nuclear wars November 13, 2017
Monday Seminar: Landslide, earthquake and cryosphere studies using hig… November 6, 2017
Monday Seminar: Laurentide ice sheets, Isthmus of Panamá, & the G… October 30, 2017
Monday Seminar: El Niño in a foram shell: Extracting past interannual… October 23, 2017
Monday Seminar: Local to hemispheric atmospheric impacts of U.S. oil a… October 16, 2017
Monday Seminar: Sensitivity of Antarctica to ocean warming during the… October 9, 2017
Monday Seminar: Understanding sources of prokaryotic tetraether membra… October 2, 2017
Monday Seminar: Summer time temperatures in the western US over the la… September 25, 2017
Monday Seminar: Wet ‘n’ wild Antarctica: Mapping small-scale clima… September 18, 2017
Monday Seminar: The Community Earth System Model (CESM) Large Ensemble… September 11, 2017
Monday Seminar: Assessing impact of wildfires on mobilization of disso… April 24, 2017
Monday Seminar: Airborne measurements of traces gases and our understa… April 17, 2017
INSTAAR Seminar: Sodium biogeochemistry, the hunger for salt, and Amaz… April 10, 2017
Distinguished Speaker: Reaching for the clouds: Developing the next ge… April 3, 2017
INSTAAR Seminar: Fernando L. Rasario-Ortiz April 3, 2017
INSTAAR Seminar: Airborne measurements of trace gases March 27, 2017
Distinguished Speaker: Changing landscape dynamics: Legacy effects on… March 20, 2017
INSTAAR Seminar: Bob Stallard March 20, 2017
Monday Seminar: Glaciations of the North Sea: Why should we bother? March 13, 2017
Monday Seminar: Disentangling the geomorphic legacy of glacial interva… March 6, 2017
Distinguished Speaker: Microbes, carbon, and climate February 27, 2017
INSTAAR Seminar: Remote sensing and modeling of the Sierra Nevada snow… February 20, 2017
Distinguished Speaker: A tale of two porosities: Exploring why contami… February 13, 2017
Distinguished Speaker: Cultivating an inclusive workplace and learning… February 6, 2017
Monday Seminar: RESESS and SOARS program overview and mentor recruitme… January 30, 2017
INSTAAR Seminar: RESESS and SOARS undergrad summer programs, mentor re… January 30, 2017
INSTAAR Seminar: In search of life in a pinch of salt: Integrated stra… January 23, 2017
Monday Seminar: Why didn’t Neanderthals live in Alaska? November 28, 2016
Distinguished Speaker: Watershed ecohydrology: A framework for underst… November 14, 2016
CWEST Seminar: Soil moisture data assimilation and the SMAP L4_SM Data… November 9, 2016
CWEST Seminar: Novel uses of enriched stable isotopes to assess the bi… November 2, 2016
Distinguished Speaker: From ice shelf collapse to inclusiveness: The v… October 31, 2016
Monday Seminar: Are Aufeis features oases of the Arctic? October 24, 2016
INSTAAR Seminar: The High Mountains Adaptation Partnership (HiMAP): Ad… October 20, 2016
Monday Seminar: Airborne measurements of trace gases October 10, 2016
Monday Seminar: Microbial responses to increased moisture and nutrient… September 19, 2016
Monday Seminar: Disentangling the impacts of climate and human coloniz… September 12, 2016
CWEST Seminar: Estimating design floods in a warming climate: Gaps, ch… September 7, 2016
CWEST Seminar: Implementation of Community WRF-Hydro Modeling System a… September 7, 2016
Seminar: Social + Environmental Issues in Tibet, China May 12, 2016
Monday Seminar - Three ways to think about the Sixth Mass Extinction April 18, 2016
Monday Seminar - Will subglacial volcanism beneath the West Antarctic… March 28, 2016
Monday Seminar: It’s a Wonderful Life: How learning networks can… March 14, 2016
Monday Seminar - Indirect responses of sagebrush-dependent wildlife to… March 7, 2016
Monday Seminar - DJ Spooky: Sound portraits - the art of the mix February 29, 2016
A progressive path through the Paris Climate Agreement February 22, 2016
Monday Seminar - Food and forms of life February 15, 2016
Monday Seminar - The Anthropocene: From concept, to geological epoch,… February 8, 2016
Monday Seminar - The lingering value of technological artifacts: A clo… February 1, 2016
Monday Seminar - Have (100,000) lasers, will travel: Frequency comb la… November 16, 2015
Mon. Seminar - Dealing with risks and uncertainty in policymaking: How… November 9, 2015
Monday Seminar - Wildfires in western North America: Towards a new und… November 2, 2015
Monday Seminar - Policy: Should it be based on fact or fiction? October 26, 2015
Cultural implications of out-of-phase weather across northern Alaska a… October 19, 2015
Monday Seminar - Tropospheric ozone: Seasonal cycles, trends as tests… October 5, 2015
Monday Noon Seminar - First results of Icebreaker Oden Expedition to P… September 28, 2015
Monday Noon Seminar - Global climate response to projected arctic sea… September 21, 2015
Monday Noon Seminar - Field-based assessment of post-earthquake damage… September 14, 2015
Special Seminar - Modelling the coevolution of soils and landscapes June 10, 2015
Noon Seminar - Creating the sub-meter image base for the Arctic and An… May 19, 2015
Monday Noon Seminar - What happens when it rains? Ecosystem fates of N… April 27, 2015
Monday Noon Seminar - Tropical/high latitude connections over the last… April 20, 2015
Monday Noon Seminar - Causes and consequences of the westerly wind inc… April 13, 2015
Monday Noon Seminar - Crumbling ice cliffs? Not-so-good news for low c… April 6, 2015
Monday Noon Seminar - Tropical climate change and coral-reef ecosystem… March 30, 2015
Monday Noon Seminar - Impacts of oil and gas development on air qualit… March 16, 2015
Monday Noon Seminar - Antarctic sea ice variability and trends in coup… March 9, 2015
Monday Noon Seminar - Evidence for subglacial volcanic activity beneat… March 2, 2015
Monday Noon Seminar - An update on how cities and states are preparing… February 23, 2015
Monday Noon Seminar - Holding your breath: How biomarkers link modern,… February 9, 2015
Monday Noon Seminar - Dirty glaciers: How glaciers get their stripes February 2, 2015
Monday Noon Seminar - Using multisite data to detect climate change im… January 26, 2015
Monday Noon Seminar - Disturbance hydrology, extreme events, and the 2… December 8, 2014
Monday Noon Seminar - Freezing resistance of alpine plants: Evolutiona… December 1, 2014
Monday Noon Seminar - Biodiversity and disease transmission November 17, 2014
Monday Noon Seminar - Using terrestrial laser scanning for geomorphic… November 10, 2014
Monday Noon Seminar - The rain is askew: Changes in distributions of r… November 3, 2014
Monday Noon Seminar - Diane Burko October 27, 2014
Monday Noon Seminar - Estimates of biological production, air-sea CO2… October 20, 2014
Atmospheric nitrogen deposition and its impact on plant communities October 6, 2014
Climate is changing, so will ecosystems & the landscape: Experimen… September 29, 2014
Population ecology modeling of marine shallow-water carbonates September 15, 2014
Abrupt climate changes in an unforced climate model simulation June 12, 2014
End to the trend: Cold desert ecosystem response to climate variabilit… May 27, 2014
Human and robotic climate and ecosystem research in Antarctica May 22, 2014
A tale of two cities: How New York and Miami are responding to sea lev… May 5, 2014
Bhutan and Nepal: Disappearing Himalayan glaciers and water security i… April 28, 2014
Small modular nuclear reactors for remote areas April 7, 2014
Doomed to drown: Sedimentation, sea level rise & the Ganges-Brahma… March 10, 2014
Greenland rivers gauge ice sheet processes November 18, 2013
Out of Beringia: Genetics, paleoecology, and archaeology October 7, 2013
Century of Trends: Historical perspectives on the evolution of U.S. wa… April 22, 2013
Using rapid-inventory techniques in hydrology and biogeochemistry to p… April 15, 2013
Mountain meteorology, physical geography, and sleeping on the summits:… April 8, 2013
Hydrologic response of headwater catchments to forest disturbance in t… April 1, 2013
Air quality impacts from hydraulic fracturing oil and gas operations i… March 11, 2013
Mountains of value: Findings & implications from economic research… March 4, 2013
Using calcium & alkalinity as surrogates for dust in snow: Implica… February 25, 2013
Will the bark beetle epidemic impact water quality? February 18, 2013
Improving streamflow forecasts in snow-fed river basins February 11, 2013
Looking into the black box of stream-riparian groundwater exchange February 4, 2013
Modeling regional hydroclimatic processes over the Colorado headwaters… January 28, 2013
How chilly were the last 10,000 years in the eastern Fram Strait? November 26, 2012
The global dispersal of Homo sapiens: An East European perspective November 12, 2012
Measuring and modelling the response of polythermal glaciers to climat… November 5, 2012
State of the art trace gas sensing: From the equator to the North Pole… October 29, 2012
Down to the sea in slips: Ice sheets and sea level, by Richard Alley October 22, 2012
The skin and the bones: High mountain soil patterns October 15, 2012
Evidence for meltwater retention within the Greenland ice sheet October 8, 2012
How plant functional traits cascade to microbial functions and ecosyst… October 1, 2012
Can carbonyl sulphide help us constrain ecosystem fluxes? Novel result… September 24, 2012
Contribution of semi-arid forests to the climate system September 17, 2012
Shorter-lived trace-gases: Opportunities for mitigating O3 depletion &… September 10, 2012
Climate variability and human response during the fourth millennium BC… April 30, 2012
Drilling in the Arctic Ocean: Will future climate change reduce the ri… April 23, 2012
Edges matter: Erosion of landscapes by migration of edges April 16, 2012
Computational socioecology: Modeling dynamic interactions between peop… April 9, 2012
Emissions from oil and gas exploration and production operations April 2, 2012
Who speaks for the climate? Making sense of media reporting on climate… March 19, 2012
The North Greenland Eemian (NEEM) Ice Drilling Project March 12, 2012
Volcanic rocks and subglacial volcanism beneath the West Antarctic Ice… March 5, 2012
Land ice and sea level: Dispatches from the front February 27, 2012
Google and Wordnet methods applied to sediment/rock/soil vocabularies February 20, 2012
CSP: The other solar electric technology February 13, 2012
Lessons in water management from Australia for the Colorado River Basi… February 6, 2012
The allure and lure of science January 30, 2012
Lessons learned in communicating the science of climate change January 23, 2012
A ditch in time: Denver, the West, and water November 28, 2011
Space weather and nighttime lights of the world November 14, 2011
The world’s fisheries: Yesterday, today, and tomorrow November 7, 2011
Climatic, hydrological and geomorphological changes in the Okavango De… October 31, 2011
From ice to fire to forests: A year in the life of the Extreme Ice Sur… October 24, 2011
Hydraulic fracturing: Environmental perspective October 17, 2011
Shale drilling and hydraulic fracturing October 10, 2011
Sustainability and the new Geosciences Building October 3, 2011
Atmospheric deposition as a source of carbon, nutrients to barren soil… September 19, 2011
Core-collapse supernovae and the Younger Dryas/terminal Rancholabrean… September 12, 2011
Erosion rates and relief development in Western European Alps in respo… April 28, 2011
Thoughts in a dry land: Post-fire hydrology of Fourmile Canyon, CO April 18, 2011
Climate change in the fast lane: Science, data & communication of… April 11, 2011
Finding the weaknesses in 21st Century sea level forecasts April 4, 2011
Past and present environmental and social impacts of volcanic eruption… March 28, 2011
Modeling Arctic coastal erosion March 14, 2011
From causes to impacts of Holocene moisture variation in mid-latitude… March 7, 2011
Geomorphic and climatic significance of bedrock scarps on normal-fault… February 28, 2011
Use of detailed forest structure to explain plot scale snowmelt patter… February 24, 2011
The groundwater-land-surface-atmosphere connection: Using coupled mode… February 21, 2011
The last Svalbard/Barents Sea Ice Sheet: From ice margin reconstructio… February 14, 2011
Sea ice predictability in a rapidly changing Arctic environment February 7, 2011
Recent changes in Southern Ocean biogeochemistry January 31, 2011
Glacial & sedimentary processes in alpine landscapes: Case studies… January 24, 2011
The McMurdo Dry Valleys, Antarctica: Climate change reconnects terrest… December 6, 2010
Lunchtime talk, movie screening and book signing by Lynne Cherry December 1, 2010
Changing climate and human settlement at Cape Espenberg, Northwest Ala… November 29, 2010
Investigation of hydrological flows and the fate of nitrogen depositio… November 15, 2010
The mARM4D soil-landscape evolution model, modeling framework & se… November 1, 2010
The effect of climate on formation of sediments in a tropical meteorit… October 25, 2010
Earth scientist: You have a parameter problem October 11, 2010
Aerogeophysical mapping of sub ice geology in Antarctica October 4, 2010
Is everything everywhere? An examination of bacterial biogeography September 27, 2010
How do waves shape deltas? September 20, 2010
Sea level during the last interglacial period in southern Florida: Imp… September 13, 2010
Highlights from the Boulder Creek Critical Zone Observatory August 30, 2010
Extreme Ice Survey: Three years of arctic & alpine glacier time-la… May 3, 2010
The science of geoscience education April 26, 2010
Late Holocene variability in soot deposition to Antarctica April 12, 2010
Effects of disease and global change on role of prairie dogs as ecosys… April 5, 2010
LGM to present Greenland Ice Sheet history in the Disko and Umanak sys… March 29, 2010
Plug-and-play modeling with CSDMS components is way cool March 15, 2010
Inherited latitudinal variation in trees’ cold hardiness: Climat… March 8, 2010
Ice patch archaeology in the mid-latitude Rocky Mountains: Five years March 1, 2010
Realistic and useful predictions of sea level in the next 100 years February 22, 2010
The Arctic’s uncertain future February 8, 2010
Ocean acidification and marine biogeochemical cycles February 5, 2010
NSF support for ecological research: Musings of a Program Officer on l… February 1, 2010
Upper Colorado snowpack variations during the last 10,000 years January 25, 2010
Predicting and managing the effects of extreme floods using orbital re… January 18, 2010