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Mervi Hjelmroos-KoskiFellow of INSTAAR; ResearchScientist, EnvironmentalHealth Sciences, School ofPublic Health, University ofCalifornia, Berkeley.PhD: 1981, University ofLund, Sweden; DSc: 1989,University of Stockholm,Sweden.Specialty: Palynology, pollen transport and deposition,pollination biology, long-distance transport of biologicalmaterial, airborne fungal spores.Research Interests: (1) Annual pollen deposition andpollen-climate calibrations in the Colorado Front Range, tobetter understand pollen-vegetation relationships and vegetationresponses to climate change; (2) composition ofatmospheric organic carbon with special reference to pollengrains and fungal spores; and (3) native vegetation responsesto invasive pollinators.John F. HoffeckerFellow of INSTAAR. PhD:1986, University of Chicago.Specialty: Archaeology andhuman paleoecologyResearch Interests: Theevolution of human adaptationsto cold environmentsduring the Quaternary period.Studies of archaeologicalsites in Eastern Europe andAlaska. Currently investigating the earliest modern humansites in Russia and the dispersal of modern humans intoEastern Europe (and related disappearance of localNeanderthals). Special focus on the role of technology inthe dispersal process. Current research also includes interdisciplinarystudy of coastal middens in northern Alaskaand the origins of modern Inuit culture with a focus ontechnological innovation.John T. HollinFellow Emeritus of INSTAAR;Research Scientist Emeritusof University of Colorado.PhD: 1972, PrincetonUniversity.Specialty: Glaciology,Quaternary, especially lastinterglacial history.Research Interests: Glacierand ice-sheet profiles, empiricaland theoretical. Sea-level evidence for Antarctic meltingand/or surging. Gondwana ice surges and Carboniferouscoal cyclothems.Anne E. JenningsFellow of INSTAAR;Assistant Professor ofGeological Sciences,University of Colorado. PhD:1989, University of Coloradoat Boulder.Specialty: Paleoceanography,glacial history,foraminifera.Research Interests:Paleoceanography, glacial history, and climate change inhigh-latitude regions, specifically Greenland, Baffin Island,Iceland, and Antarctica. Specializes in using foraminifera forinterpreting paleoenvironments and chronology on high-latitudecontinental shelves.Scott J. LehmanFellow and ResearchProfessor of INSTAAR. PhD:1989, University of Coloradoat Boulder.Specialty: Paleoclimatology,paleoceanography, radiocarbonresearch.Research Interests: Therole of the oceans in climatechange, cycling of heat, freshwater, and carbon by the oceans, paleotemperature applicationsof marine biomarkers and amino acids, dynamics andconsequences of abrupt climate change, radiocarbon calibration,bomb 14 C as a tracer in the recent carbon cycle.Wesley E.LeMasurierFellow of INSTAAR, Professorof Geology, University ofColorado at Denver. PhD:1965, Stanford University.Specialty: Volcanology andigneous petrology.Research Interests: (1)Volcanoes of Marie ByrdLand, Antarctica: origin andevolution of basaltic and felsic rocks; (2) relationship of volcanismin Antarctica (esp. Marie Byrd Land) to tectonicenvironment: West Antarctic rift system, Marie Byrd Landdome; (3) volcanic record of Cenozoic glacial history inMarie Byrd Land; (4) geology of hydrovolcanic rocks (hyaloclastites,pillow lavas); (5) Cenozoic volcanoes ofAntarctica: distribution and petrologic character.44 | PEOPLE
William F. ManleyFellow of INSTAAR. PhD:1995, University of Coloradoat Boulder.Specialty: QuaternaryGeology, GIS, paleoclimatology,and high-latitude environmentalchange.Research Interests:Pleistocene glacier fluctuationsand paleoclimate forcingfor Alaska, through field research and data analysis,including spatial analysis with GIS. Spatial analysis of modernAlaskan glaciers, including links between equilibriumline altitudes and climate. Icefield archaeology and remotesensing. Arctic coastal erosion and flooding.Tom MarchittoResearch Scientist ofINSTAAR; AssistantProfessor of GeologicalSciences, University ofColorado at Boulder. PhD:1999, MIT/WHOI JointProgram.Specialty: Quaternary paleoclimate,paleoceanography,and past ocean chemistry.Research Interests: Rapid climate change during the lateQuaternary, particularly large-scale changes in ocean circulationand chemistry. Specializing in the use the calciticforaminifera as recorders of physical and chemical propertiesof seawater, including temperature, salinity, the isotopiccomposition of dissolved inorganic carbon, and the concentrationsof various nutrients.Diane M. McKnightFellow of INSTAAR; Professorof Civil, Environmental andArchitectural Engineering,University of Colorado atBoulder. PhD: 1979,Massachusetts Institute ofTechnology.Specialty: Limnology, biogeochemistryof lakes andstreams.Research Interests: Research focuses on interactionsbetween hydrologic, chemical, and biological processes incontrolling the dynamics in aquatic ecosystems. Thisresearch is carried out through field-scale experiments, modeling,and laboratory characterization of natural substrates.Main field sites are located in the Rocky Mountains and inthe Transantarctic Mountains, and include pristine andstressed ecosystems, such as acid mine drainage influenceson mountain streams. Conducts research focusing on interactionsbetween freshwater biota, trace metals, and naturalorganic material in diverse freshwater environments, includinglakes and streams in the Colorado Rocky Mountains,and in the McMurdo Dry Valleys in Antarctica. Developsinteractions with state and local groups involved in minedrainage and watershed issues in the Rocky Mountains. Aco-principal investigator in the McMurdo Dry Valleys LTERand in the Niwot Ridge LTER.Mark F. MeierFellow Emeritus of INSTAAR;Professor Emeritus ofGeological Sciences,University of Colorado atBoulder. PhD: 1957,California Institute ofTechnology.Specialty: Glaciology, globalchange.Research Interests:Glaciers in the Earth system, causes and projections of sealevelchange, iceberg calving, surging and calving glaciers,climate change, and global change in general.Gifford H. MillerFellow of INSTAAR; Professorof Geological Sciences,University of Colorado atBoulder. PhD: 1975,University of Colorado atBoulder.Specialty: Quaternarystratigraphy, geochronology,and paleoclimatology.Research Interests: My primaryscholarly interests focus on gaining an improvedunderstanding of how the physical earth system operates.Toward this end, I am specifically interested in using theQuaternary as a means to reconstruct the coupled ocean/atmospheric/ice climate system. By reconstructing past environmentalchanges, it is possible to get a better understandingof the rates and magnitude of natural climate variability,and the various feedback mechanisms in the global climatesystem. I am also interested in the role of humans in themodification of landscapes and ecosystem on Quaternarytimescales.Diana R. NemergutResearch Scientist ofINSTAAR; AssistantProfessor of EnvironmentalStudies, University ofColorado at Boulder. PhD:2004, University of Coloradoat Boulder.Specialty: Microbial ecologyand evolution.Research Interests:Horizontal gene transfer in microbial communities. I amPEOPLE | 45
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