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Graduate Student TalksSpring 2005Ryan Vachon, INSTAAR, “The reality of high-altitude icecoring.”Dan Liptzin, INSTAAR, “Nutrient dynamics in the foresttundraecotone, Niwot Ridge.”Jessica Black, INSTAAR, “Sinking by iceberg, a hair-raisingtale of survival on a barge, in the midst of a swarm of icebergs...(or — Holocene history of Hvitarvatn, Iceland).”Kenneth Mack, INSTAAR, “A quick overview of a 5-boxmodel for 13 C-CH 4 data to constrain methane source estimates.”Jocelyn Turnbull, INSTAAR, “Science, sushi and the stratosphere:all about my summer doing science in Japan on anNSF fellowship.”Nataly Ascarrunz, INSTAAR, “Precipitation effects on soilbiogeochemistry: moving dirt around eastern Bolivia.”Florence Bocquet, INSTAAR, “Air-snow interactions:Summit, Greenland and Niwot Ridge, Colorado. Two differentplaces in the world, two different stories.”Annalisa Schilla, INSTAAR, “Climate insights from the SipleDome Ice Core.”Rose Cory and Chris Jaros, INSTAAR, “Pony Lake, CapeRoyds, Ross Island, Antarctica: interested in a chance-of-alifetimetime-share opportunity?”Tara Chesley, INSTAAR, “Mineralogy, sediment, andforaminiferal history of Djúpáll, Iceland: reconstructing apast record.”John Hollin, INSTAAR, “Glaciological expeditions to NorthEast Land, Spitsbergen, in 1951 and 1955.”Dan Cordalis, INSTAAR, “Mountain hydrology: using environmentalisotopes to characterize sources and flowpaths ofacid mine drainage.”Yarrow Axford, INSTAAR, “Warm times in the Arctic: usinglake sediments to reconstruct past temperatures on Icelandand Baffin Island.”Fall 2005Rhea Esposito and Shannon Horn, INSTAAR, “Communityassemblage and endemism in Dry Valley stream diatoms:two facets of diatom response to climate change.”Tiffany Duhl, INSTAAR, “Uptake and emission of biogenicvolatile organic compounds (VOC) by plants.”Paul Abood, INSTAAR, “A deposition discussion: issuessurrounding atmospheric inorganic N deposition measurement.”Craig Anderson, INSTAAR, “Modeling spatially distributedsnowpack properties to enhance our understanding ofsnow-elk relationships in the Northern Elk Winter Range,Yellowstone National Park.”Lana Cohen, INSTAAR, “Science at the Summit: year-roundinvestigations at the Greenland Environmental Observatory(GEOSummit).”Maureen Mason, INSTAAR, ”Knickpoint migration on theRoan Plateau, Colorado.”Ursula Rick, INSTAAR, “Meltwater movement on theGreenland Ice Sheet.”Aurelie Justwan, Norsk Polarinstitutt, “Variability of theIrminger Current during the Holocene.”Shad O’Neel, INSTAAR, “Complete carnage at ColumbiaGlacier: iceberg calving and fast flow... What are welearning?”Jan Pollmannn, INSTAAR, “The tale of atmospheric hydrocarbons:what do we know, what do we not know and whydo we care?”Dylan Ward, INSTAAR, “The use of cosmogenic radionuclidesin stratigraphy: application to the Nenana Gravel,Alaska Range.”Duane White, INSTAAR, “Big glaciers, limited erosion: constrainingthe Pleistocene history of the Lambert Glacier, EastAntarctica with cosmogenic exposure ages.”Trevor Popp and Shad O’Neel, INSTAAR, Practice talks forAGU.Rebecca Anderson (INSTAAR,left) and Dale Hess (University ofBuffalo) look ahead to the roadback to the cabin after a day offield work on northern BaffinIsland, April 2006. Photo: J.Briner (University of Buffalo).SEMINARS | 57