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Boulder, CO
Joined July 2009
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Katie Suding's former student Isabel De Silva is featured in this CPR piece on moose in Colorado
cpr.org/2025/12/08/colorado-…
🔥 INSTAARites in Boulder are hunkered down today for “extremely critical” fire weather conditions. Fortunately, no ignitions so far. Wish us luck!
🌬️ Peak wind gust 104 mph (NCAR Mesa Lab)
🌡️ Air temp ~65F
🌵 Humidity only ~9%
#COWX
ALT Graph of average wind speed and peak gust for the NSF NCAR Mesa Lab above Boulder Colorado on 2025-12-19. See https://archive.eol.ucar.edu/cgi-bin/weather.cgi?site=ml&period=5-minute&units=english
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Today, the 2025 #ArcticReportCard was released, marking 20 years of tracking rapid Arctic warming and change. Find the full 2025 Arctic Report Card here: arctic.noaa.gov/report-card/…
#AGU25 @NOAA @theAGU
🧑🏽🔬 This week, 100s of @CUBoulder scientists -incl many INSTAARs- are participating in the #AGU25 Earth & space science conference. INSTAARs are helping with CU exhibit booth too. Thanks y'all!
See schedule of remaining talks & posters of CU participants colorado.edu/news/formedia/a…
ALT Exhibit booth for CU Boulder at the AGU2025 annual meeting in New Orleans (Photo: CU Boulder).
ALT Exhibit booth for CU Boulder at the AGU2025 annual meeting in New Orleans (Photo: CU Boulder).
🌊 The Arctic Rivers Project is weaving Indigenous Knowledge with empirical analysis to plan for the 21st century.
Last week, Eos writer Cassidy Beach featured INSTAAR fellow Keith Musselman in a piece on the innovative research effort.
buff.ly/aCWVz06
Extract rare earth metals from contaminated Colorado streams?
Diane McKnight & Tom Marchitto are collaborators on a new project seeking to improve water quality while also increasing the domestic supply of raw materials for advanced technologies colorado.edu/instaar/2025/12…
McKnight and Marchitto are part of a new $2.8 million project, funded by the U.S. Department of Energy and led by the University of Missouri, that seeks a method for extracting rare earths from acid rock drainage for industrial uses.
@CUBoulder @INSTAAR @Mizzou @mizzouengineer
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Attention @CUBoulder authors! Did you know that University Libraries can provide up to $2,000 to pay for publishing fees for full open access journals, including our own AAAR? Please read through the eligibility criteria carefully: libraries.colorado.edu/resea….
INSTAAR retweeted
This week, hundreds of Buffs are representing CU Boulder at #AGU25, the premier Earth and space science conference. 🚀
Explore the schedule of events featuring experts from @LASPatCU, @CUBoulderATOC, @INSTAAR, @COSpaceGrant and more!
Learn more ↓
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🌎 Are you an early career researcher keen on Earth surface processes? Want to learn about numerical modeling & software development?
Apply by 24 January for the *free* CSDMS ESPIn immersive training experience Aug 3-7, 2026 in Boulder Colorado ⬇️
csdms.colorado.edu/wiki/ESPI…
ALT A group of attendees work together at the 2024 CSDMS Earth Surface Processes Summer Institute (ESPIn)
ALT a groups of attendees huddle together at the 2024 CSDMS Earth Surface Processes Summer Institute (ESPIn)
ALT The 2024 cohort for the CSDMS Earth Surface Processes Summer Institute (ESPIn) poses for a group photo in the SEEC building's west courtyard.
📻 KUNC did a story on Nancy Emery and her lab's work on how alpine plants adapt to environmental change.
The Niwot Ridge Long-Term Ecological Monitoring Project faces a 20% budget cut in 2026. Check out our website to support this project and others.
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🧊 The team at the Stable Isotope Lab recently finished processing a mile-long ice core from Greenland.
Though the ice core was extracted more than three decades ago, new methods may reveal new insights into Eath's past, present and future climate.
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📢 New PNAS paper on the global rise in methane since 2006
Led by Ben Riddell-Young (CIRES/NOAA), they found the increase was primarily driven by agriculture/waste & wetland emissions. INSTAAR co-authors incl Sylvia Michel & Pieter Tans. Go team! 👏🏽
doi.org/10.1073/pnas.2516543…
On a recent blustery day, NWT LTER researchers took Isabella Escobedo, a reporter from KUNC, up Niwot Ridge to cover an ongoing alpine warming experiment kunc.org/kunc/2025-12-04/alp…
INSTAAR retweeted
Pikas are icons of Colorado’s high country, but new @INSTAAR research shows their future may be at risk.
Fewer young pikas are surviving in some Rocky Mountain sites, a trend scientists say could signal the impacts of a warming climate. 🏔️
Read more ↓
bit.ly/3KfnoJW
📢 3 INSTAAR talks today
8 Dec, 12-1 pm
SEEC S228 & Zoom
🌿 Semi-arid rangeland conservation
Hunter Geist-Sanchez
⛰️ Rock glacier evolution
Juliana Ruef
🦠 Upwelling community collapse
Harry Allbrook
See full titles & abstracts: calendar.colorado.edu/event/…
New geomorphology paper out today on feedbacks between river ice and bank erosion in the Canning Delta, Alaska onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/…
Led by grad student Josie Arcuri, coauthors include INSTAARs Irina Overeem, Robert Anderson, Suzanne Anderson, and colleagues. Congrats all!
"Okay, but is bird monogamy just PR?" 🐦🦆🐣 🦉🦜🦩
Listen/watch the first episode of the Okay, But… Birds podcast, hosted by Scott Taylor (INSTAAR & EBIO, CU Boulder) and featuring Carrie Branch (Western University, Canada) okaybutbirds.com/
💰 🔬 The Mountain Research Station has received three years of funding for student research projects from the Maxwell/Hanrahan Foundation!
The scholarships created by the donation will go toward field investigations in alpine landscapes and ecosystems.
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It's a snowy day out there! ❄️ See how CU Boulder manages snow for safety and accessibility, and view the live CU Boulder snow camera.
Bookmark this resource for the winter months ↓
bit.ly/4iBoJYf
