Institute of Arctic And Alpine Research - University of Colorado Boulder

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Sample some recent ventures, each focused on answering specific questions about Earth's environment and our place in it.

An archaeological proxy for the earliest modern human colonization of Eastern Europe?: New field research at Shlyakh, Don River area, southern Russia

Assessing earthquake damage to glacial lakes in Nepal

Cape Espenberg: Early Inupiat settlement on the northern Seward Peninsula (Alaska)

Cause and onset of Little Ice Age

Disappearing ice: Paleoclimate investigations on Baffin Island, Arctic Canada

Estimating snowpack and streamflow conditions in the Colorado headwaters: Combining a MODIS-based snow water equivalent product and statistical interpolation methods

Kostenki: Landscape archaeology of the early Upper Paleolithic on the central East European Plain

Mira: Geoarchaeological and zooarchaeological studies at a stratified early Upper Paleolithic site

Ozone and Snow: Measuring trace gas exchange between air and snow

Predicting Arctic Change through Ecosystem Molecular Proxies (PACEMAP)

Snowpack and ecosystem dynamics: Sustainability of inter-basin water transfers under a changing climate

Trees and VOCs: Measuring volatile organic compounds from urban forests

WAIS Divide ice coring: Extracting a high-resolution climate record

Research Themes

Where in the world
is INSTAAR?

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