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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