Fellows | Research Scientists | Fellows Emeriti
Fellows
Fellows are faculty who govern the institute and help lead INSTAAR's research and education missions. Reach out to individual fellows for information about joining INSTAAR, especially if you are a prospective graduate student or staff member.
- Professor
- Chair, Geological Sciences
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Geomorphology
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Geomorphology, weathering, hydrology
- Associate Professor
- Co-Director, Hydrologic Sciences Graduate Program
- PI, Critical Zone Dynamic Storage
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Ecohydrology, forest hydrology, tree physiology, stable isotope geochemistry.
- Professor
- Director, Mountain Research Station
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Plant ecology, community ecology, biogeochemistry, alpine ecosystems.
- Senior Research Associate
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Attmospheric processes and chemical transformations; advanced laser technology for atmospheric research, including trace gas detection
- Professor
- Co-Director, Hydrologic Sciences Graduate Program
- PI, McMurdo Dry Valleys LTER
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Stream-groundwater interactions; contaminant transport/fate; polar responses to climate change; ecosystem processes in polar landscapes; aquatic biogeochemical cycling; water quality modeling
- Assistant Professor
- Director, Arikaree Environmental Laboratory
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Ecosystem biogeochemistry; ecohydrology.
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Climate modeling, polar climate, paleoclimate, cryosphere, oceanography, modeling of isotopes.
- INSTAAR Fellow, Research Scientist III
- Editor, Arctic, Antarctic and Alpine Research
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Arctic paleoclimate and paleoceanography, ice-sheet/ocean interactions, foraminifera.
- Associate Professor - Research
- Assistant Director, INSTAAR
- Director DFO - Flood Observatory
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Hydrology, sediment transport, flooding, remote sensing, numerical modeling
- Senior Research Associate
- Director, Laboratory for AMS Radiocarbon Preparation and Research (NSRL)
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Paleoclimatology, paleoceanography, radiocarbon research.
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Marine carbon cycle, climate variability, ocean modeling.
- Professor
- Director, ICP-MS Trace Metal Laboratory
- Affiliate Faculty, Atmospheric and Oceanic Sciences
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Paleoceanography and paleoclimatology
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Isotope biogeochemistry; paleoclimate and climate dynamics, particularly in the high latitudes; geochemical proxy records and models
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Limnology; biogeochemistry of lakes and streams.
- Professor
- Associate Director, INSTAAR
- Director, Center for the Geochemical Analysis of the Global Environment (GAGE)
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Quaternary stratigraphy, geochronology, and paleoclimatology.
- Associate Professor
- Fellow and Associate Professor
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Surface water and snow hydrology; remote sensing; ecohydrology.
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Sediment transport; Biogeochemistry; Coastal oceanography; Numerical modeling
- Senior Research Associate
- Senior Scientist, Stefansson Arctic Institute, Iceland
- Professor Adjunct, Hunter College, CUNY, New York
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Interface of social sciences, humanities, and the natural sciences; long-term human ecodynamics and climate change.
- Associate Professor
- Deputy Director, CSDMS
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Earth surface process modeling; Coastal and river geomorphology; Sedimentary geology; Civil engineering and applied earth sciences.
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Hydrology, Geomorphology, Modeling, Cyberinfrastructure
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Glaciology, continuum mechanics, heat transfer, analysis and numerical methods.
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Terrestrial ecosystem ecology; causes and feedbacks of biotic change; grassland ecology; plant-soil-animal interactions.
- Assistant Professor
- Co-Director of the Organic Geochemistry Laboratory
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Organic and stable isotope biogeochemistry, geobiology, biomarker research, paleoceanography, paleoclimate, extreme climates, mass extinction events.
- Research Associate
- Ecologist, U.S. Geological Survey
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My professional interest lies in diatoms, which are single-celled organisms contained within silica cell walls.
- Professor Adjoint
- Research Hydrologist, U.S. Geological Survey
- Research Scientist, Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute, Panama
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Biogeochemistry, hydrology, and geomorphology.
- Professor
- PI, Niwot Ridge LTER
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Plant community ecology; restoration, invasion biology, environmental change, and conservation.
- Associate Professor
- Director of INSTAAR
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Ecosystem ecology, Wetland ecology, Carbon cycling, Permafrost science, Fire ecology, Biogeochemistry
- Research Associate
- Manager, Stable Isotope Lab
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Isotopic analysis in global change, paleoclimate, glacier hydrology, atmospheric trace gases, and instrument development.
- Professor
- Dean of Arts and Sciences
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Global change, paleoclimate dynamics, biogeochemistry.
Research Scientists
These faculty scientists have appointments at INSTAAR. They lead and participate in research projects and programs, and often mentor students and otherwise contribute to INSTAAR’s education mission.
- Senior Research Associate
- Founder and Associate Director, Dartmouth Flood Observatory
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Space-based monitoring of surface water changes for humanitarian, research, and water management applications; includes changes related to floods, droughts, wetlands, shorelines, lakes, and reservoirs.
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The social dimensions of environmental change, resilience, social vulnerability, disasters risk reduction and climate change adaptation in the global south and US marginalized groups
- Senior Research Associate
- Co-Manager, High Mountains Adaptation Partnership (HiMAP)
- National Geographic Explorer
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Applied research, alpine conservation and restoration programs, climate change impacts, highland-lowland interactive conservation, and mountain photography.
- Senior Research Associate
- Research Geophysicist
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Thermal geophysics, polar sciences, climate change
- Senior Research Associate
- Director, Consortium for Capacity Building (CCB)
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African drought, the Aral Sea basin, desertification, food production problems and prospects; societal impacts of climate anomalies related to El Niño events and the use of El Niño-related teleconnections to forecast these impacts; developing methods of forecasting possible societal responses to the regional impacts of climate change; and the use of climate-related information for economic development.
- Research Associate
- Research Associate, Illinois State Museum
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Archaeology and human paleoecology.
- Research Associate
- Senior Research Fellow, University of Adelaide, Australia
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Marine Geology, Oceanography, Stratigraphy, Data Integration, Linguistic Data, Carbonate Stratigraphic Modeling, Marine Geoacoustics
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Polar ice cores, Abrupt climate change, Isotope geochemistry, Atmosphere / ocean / ice sheet interactions, Glaciological Modeling, Unmanned Aerial Vehicles, Methane in Permafrost (new pursuit), Outreach
- Research Associate
- Faculty Director, Conservation Biology and Practice in Brazil's Atlantic Forest Global Seminar, Education Abroad Programs
- Lecturer, CU Mountain Research Station
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Global change biology and climate science.
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Environmental archaeology (landscapes, icescapes, seascapes); human responses to climate change; archaeometry (isotopic analyses); historical ecology.
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Arctic data science and geospatial analysis of environmental change.
- Research Associate
- Research Scientist II, NORCE / Bjerknes Centre for Climate Research
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Atlantic Arctic ocean-ice-atmosphere system, Arctic sea ice, Late Holocene climate and environmental change, Greenland and the Nordic Seas
- Research Associate
- Research Associate
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Hydrology, climate change, hydrometeorology, remote sensing, modeling & data analytics.
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Biogeochemistry, biosphere-atmosphere interactions.
- Research Associate
- Research Software Engineer, CSDMS
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Model coupling cyberinfrastructure, open source software development and education, turbulence, atmospheric boundary layers.
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Animal ecology, pikas
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Technology and instrument design & development, Optical engineering and development, Airborne atmospheric research, High-precision trace gas sensing
- Research Associate
- Executive Committee, International Snow Working Group
- Member, Snow Albedo Working Group, NASA Hydrology
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Snow hydrology, remote sensing of ice and snow, earth surface energy and water balance, and large-scale data modeling.
- Assistant Professor Adjunct
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Fire ecology, landscape ecology, geographic information systems (GIS), dendrochronology.
- Senior Research Associate
- Adjunct Assoc Research Scientist, Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory of Columbia University
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Polar oceanography and climate, interdisciplinary approaches to understanding environmental and ecosystem response to climate variability.
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Optical remote sensing and in-situ based laser technologies, including trace gas detection of methane emissions, VOCs, organic aerosols, and more.
- Research Associate
- Investigator, National Center for Atmospheric Research (NCAR)
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Soil biogeochemistry, Earth system modeling, Tropical forest ecology
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Climate and its interaction with society, focusing on early warning, food security, innovative rural technology, and capacity building.
Fellows Emeriti
Fellows Emeriti are retired faculty but remain professionally active and contribute to the goals and mission of INSTAAR.
- Senior Research Associate Emeritus
- Senior Scientist, Otis Bay Ecological Consultants
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The hydrology and climate of polar and alpine regions.
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Quaternary and glacial geology of Arctic areas, with a particular interest in the areas around Iceland, Greenland, and NE Canada.
- Senior Research Associate Emeritus
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Geophysics (aeromagnetics, gravity, seismology); tectonics, glaciology, polar geophysics, marine geophysics, Antarctic history.
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Geomorphology and hydrology.
- Senior Research Associate
- Professor Emeritus, Geology, University of Colorado at Denver
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Volcanology and igneous petrology.
- Research Professor Emerita
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South America and Southern Hemisphere paleoclimates; inter-and intra-hemispheric paleoclimate correlations.
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Oceanography, geological sciences, hydrology, numerical modeling, geophysics.