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Trevor Popp, INSTAAR, “An ice chorus: paleoclimate resultsfrom Greenland and Antarctica ice cores and a look to thefuture.”Cynthia Cacy, INSTAAR, “Chemical weathering in loesssoils of the Matanuska Valley, Alaska.”Ken MacClune, INSTAAR, “The atmospheric methanesource: on the decline in the 21st century.”Sean Bryan, INSTAAR, “Conversations with forams: interpretingpast ocean conditions.”James Syvitski, INSTAAR Director, “How to be successful inscience.”Fall 2006Jan Pollman, INSTAAR, “Evaluation and measurements ofthe global distribution of hydrocarbons.”Ursula Rick and Maureen Berlin, INSTAAR, “How to getfunding as a graduate student and beyond.”Field crew during typical windy conditionsfor the annual snow survey for theNiwot Ridge LTER project, Green LakesValley, Colorado, Spring 2006.Continental divide in the background.The snow survey was featured in BruceSturtz’s 2006 book Chasing Spring. Thefield crew consisted of CU undergraduateand graduate students, along withNWT LTER field personnel. Photo:Mark Williams (INSTAAR).Spring 2006Henry Adams and Jeff Lukas, INSTAAR, “Boring trees, interestingscience: adventures in dendrochronology in the semiaridWest.”Adina Racoviteanu, INSTAAR, “The SPOT5-derived glacierinventory of Cordillera Blanca, Peru: a contribution to theGLIMS Glacier Database.”Jessica Black, INSTAAR, “Diatoms as proxies for a fluctuationHolocene ice cap margin in Hvítárvatn, Iceland.”Rebecca Anderson, INSTAAR, “Ice cap retreat in northernBaffin Island: providing a context for current Arcticwarming.”Colleen Flanagan, INSTAAR, “Climate variability and phytoplanktoncommunity composition in an alpine lake,Colorado.”John Behrendt, INSTAAR, “Innocents on the Ice: a younggrad student’s oversnow traverses in Antarctica during theIGY era.”Craig Lee, INSTAAR, “Ice patch archeology: the global phenomenaand the need for focused surveys in the RockyMountain West.”Zach Guido, INSTAAR, “LGM glacier retreat rates and thetiming of terrace formation in the Animas River drainage,San Juan Mountains, Colorado.”Tad Pfeffer, INSTAAR, “How to write a fundable proposal.”John Hollin, INSTAAR, “Film footage of Wilkes Station,Antarctica in the International Geophysical Year, 1958.”Tim Bartholomaus, INSTAAR, “Glacier sliding and subglacialwater pressures: Kennicott Glacier’s response to the2006 Hidden Creek Lake Jökulhaup (a summer in theWrangell Mountains, Alaska).”Sean Bryan, INSTAAR, “Searching for Earth’s past climate inold mud: the process of deep sea sediment coring.”Kaelin Cawley, INSTAAR, “Biogeochemical and ecologicalconsequences of dissolved organic carbon released fromsoot particles from global firestorms at the Cretaceous/Tertiary boundary: Was the Strangelove Ocean a blackwaterocean?”Florence Bocquet, INSTAAR, “Ozone exchange at the airsnowinterface at the polar site of Summit, Greenland.”Susan Riggins, INSTAAR, “Regolith development in alpinelandscapes: Osborn Mountain, Wyoming and Niwot Ridge,Colorado.”Rebecca Anderson, INSTAAR, “Rapidly melting ice caps ofnorthern Baffin Island: insights from satellite imagery, cosmogenicand conventional radiocarbon dating.”Brian Seok, INSTAAR, “Improving our understanding oftrace gas transport mechanisms through the snowpack.”Tiffany Duhl, INSTAAR, “The development of a low-cost,technologically modest method for determining urban fractionalvegetation cover and type for use in urban air qualitymodels.”Jessica Black, INSTAAR, “Diatoms as proxies for a fluctuatingHolocene ice cap margin in Hvitarvatn, Iceland.”58 | SEMINARS