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Past Seminars

• 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