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Last day to register for the 2025 NNA Annual Meeting next month! sites.google.com/colorado.edu...

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Join us at the Mountain Research Station this summer!

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Oldfather et al.’s #newarticle in our Sustainability & Resilience special collection synthesizes research on climate change impacts & responses in US Rocky Mountain high-elevation ecosystems to support future climate adaptation in resource management: doi.org/10.1080/15230430.2025.2450089

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🏆 KATHARINE SUDING (INSTAAR/EBIO) named a 2025 Franklin Institute Bower Award winner. She was recognized for making “transformative contributions to restoration ecology by increasing our understanding of degraded ecosystems & their recovery dynamics.” Congrats Katie! www.colorado.edu/asmagazine/2...

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ICYMI: 🌱🏔️ Alpine plant study on Niwot Ridge CO suggests • Global change effects will vary among species. • Distributional shifts are not easily predicted by species environmental preference. Read the 2024 paper by C. Bueno de Mesquita, S. Elmendorf, J. Smith, & K. Suding doi.org/10.1080/1523...

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¡Hola A Todos! 👋🏾 Join the Spanish Language Lunch table this Thursday, February 27th at 12pm in the SEEC Café. We'll have lots of fun while practicing our vocabulary & listening skills. All welcome. Cohosts: Cohosts: Leanne Lestak & Edgart Flores Rafael Info: calendar.colorado.edu/event/spanis...

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🗓️ Wed March 5th, 2025 application deadline: INSTAAR Summer Scholarships for CU Boulder grad students

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🌱 Ecosymposium in SEEC Sat Mar 15th focuses on restoration ecology. Keynote by KATIE SUDING. Add'l speakers include TIM SEASTEDT. Re-wetting grasslands, restoring overgrazed agricultural lands, mitigating wildfire risks, managing invasive plants without herbicides, & more bcna.org/2025ecosympo...

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🚨 New modeling paper: 'Internal climate variability modulates decadal changes in ocean anthropogenic carbon storage' HOLLY OLIVAREZ (NOAA postdoc & INSTAAR alum), NICOLE LOVENDUSKI, et al. studied 1994-2014 changes, with implications for survey-based carbon estimates doi.org/10.1088/1748...

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🙏🏽 Thanks to the many INSTAARs who dropped by our front office recently for our 'Meet & Greet' event. Our support staff had fun chatting with you, eating snacks, & hanging out. We managed to snap a pic of some of you (& our copier, & half of Joe 😜). What a great community! 💕

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Last year’s recipient of the Sarah Crump Graduate Fellowship, KATIE GANNON, recalls an eventful summer of field science www.colorado.edu/instaar/2025... 🚨 FEB 28th DEADLINE for CU Boulder grad students to apply for ~$15K of summer funding in 2025. Preference given to those with INSTAAR advisors.

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2025 NNA ANNUAL COMMUNITY MEETING 📍 Boulder, CO • March 23 🆓 Free registration for this in-person event 👤 For folks working w NSF's Navigating the New Arctic initiative or interested in it 🗓️ Held in conjunction with Arctic Science Summit Week (ASSW) 2025 in Boulder sites.google.com/colorado.edu...

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CU Boulder grad students: Apply by Feb 28th for the SARAH CRUMP GRAD FELLOWSHIP ~$15K of summer funding. Preference given to those with INSTAAR advisors. Members of historically excluded communities are particularly encouraged to apply. More info at www.colorado.edu/instaar/reso...

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CU Boulder Chancellor Justin Schwartz recently visited INSTAAR, joined by RIO Sr VC Massimo Ruzzene. They met with our leadership team for a tour & great discussions about research strengths + potential collaborations. Thanks all! 🙏🏽 Read about their visit: https://buff.ly/4k1OLEx

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🔎 Looking for polar science groups to follow? Check out the Polar Science Organizations starter pack, managed by @polarsecco.bsky.social. ICYDK: You don't have to follow them all, you can quickly choose a subset of organizations. bsky.app/starter-pack...

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UNDERGRAD SUMMER FIELD COURSES at CU Boulder's Mountain Research Station 🌱 Vegetation 🦅 Birds 🧬 Bioinformatics 🦠 Microbes 🚣‍♀️ Lakes+streams 🌲 Forests+fire Each 2-3 wks, 3 transferable credits, 15 students/class, lodging&food included w tuition ENROLLMENT STARTS 10 MAR www.colorado.edu/mrs/student-...

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ICYMI — the National Snow and Ice Data Center (NSIDC) @nsidc.bsky.social is on Bluesky! NSIDC, a part of CIRES at CU Boulder, has been advancing knowledge of Earth's frozen regions since 1976. Follow for news, data insights, fun facts, and more. 📸: Jeff Deems/NSIDC and CIRES

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🧊 INSIDE AN ICE STREAM: An international group of researchers - including TYLER JONES - discuss their deep ice core research in NE Greenland & its often ominous implications www.science.org/content/arti... Fantastic writing by @voosen.me & photos by @larsson-warzecha.bsky.social 👏🏽

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"NOAA is taxpayer-funded, so it is a public good – its services provide safety and security for everyone, not just those who can pay for it." CIRES' @cwiedinm.bsky.social and Kari Bowen explain @noaa.gov's role in U.S. weather forecasts. @us.theconversation.com @colorado.edu

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🍨🍦 FRIDAY: INSTAAR + @nsidc.bsky.social Ice Cream Social! - Feb 14th, 2-3PM MT, SEEC S228 - Presenters: Twila Moon & Alexandra Jahn - Attend in person or on Zoom Join us to foster scientific collaborations... with frozen treats! We meet monthly buff.ly/4gaP2TA

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💨🏔️ Pollution-laden dust storms are depositing black carbon on the Himalayas, a key driver of Himalayan glacier melt. KARL RITTGER (INSTAAR + @nsidc.bsky.social) joined scientists from IIT Madras & Finnish Meteo. Institute. Read about their collaboration www.colorado.edu/instaar/2025...

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Happy International Day of Girls and Women in Science! I am so grateful to be surrounded by so many amazing women scientists who have trained me, mentored me, and supported me. Women belong in science 👩‍🔬

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Monday seminar! 10 Feb, 12-1pm, SEEC S228 & Zoom 🐬🦅 From stranding to soaring: Leveraging long-term data for marine megafauna conservation ETIENNE ROUBY 🐟 Age & growth of Antarctic Toothfish in the Amundsen & Bellingshausen Seas... IVORY CARPENTER https://buff.ly/3CL8Gqs

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Geography in Action! This year's snow interns and their supervisors on their first data gathering field trip in Niwot Ridge for Niwot LTER long term data sets.

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A new review paper, led by NSIDC's Julienne Stroeve, paints a picture of what the Arctic may look like in 2100. "These changes will devastate infrastructure, ecosystems, vulnerable communities, and wildlife," Stroeve said. Read the story from @nsidc.bsky.social: https://buff.ly/3EsZO9w

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🏆 Congrats to Faculty Fellow KATHARINE SUDING, who received the Bower Award and Prize for Achievement in Science today from the Franklin Institute. She was cited for her “transformative contributions to restoration ecology.” INSTAAR sat down with her for a Q&A: www.colorado.edu/instaar/2025...

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📢 Monday seminar! Feb 10th, 12-1PM, SEEC S228 & Zoom 🐬🦅 “From stranding to soaring: Leveraging long-term data for marine megafauna conservation” ETIENNE ROUBY 🐟 “Age and growth of Antarctic Toothfish in the Amundsen & Bellingshausen Seas...” IVORY CARPENTER calendar.colorado.edu/event/instaa...

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Registration is now open for the CSDMS 2025 Annual Meeting: "Exploring Earth’s Surface with Models, Data & AI". This year’s meeting is held at the University of Colorado Boulder from May 13–15. Registration and additional details, please visit: csdms.colorado.edu/wiki/Form:An... Hope you can join!

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CU Boulder grad students: Apply by Feb 28th for the SARAH CRUMP GRAD FELLOWSHIP ~$15K of summer funding. Preference given to those with INSTAAR advisors. Members of historically excluded communities are particularly encouraged to apply. More info at www.colorado.edu/instaar/reso...

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ICY RIVER: Follow faculty member IRINA OVEREEM & grad student JOSIE ARCURI as they set up sensors to monitor when the Canning River, clogged by winter ice, begins to flow. Filmed by Ryan Vachon. Watch the ~30 minute video online at: PBS www.pbs.org/video/icy-ri... Vimeo vimeo.com/901251616/ea...

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The second Consortium for the Advancement of Marine Arctic Science (CAMAS) Workshop and Early-Career School will take place April 15–18, 2025, at the Center for Urban Horticulture in Seattle, Washington jiaxuz.github.io/CAMAS2/ Applications for ECR travel funding are due February 7, 2025.

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Indeed! 👏🏽 Kudos to all the MCM-LTER students (as well as researchers, & staff). And an extra thanks to the two guides in the photo: JARED COLLINS (INSTAAR+CEAE grad student, CU Boulder) & GAVIN WAGNER (INSTAAR researcher). Stay warm & keep up the awesome work y'all! Check out the comments ⬇️

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🔮 Predict marine heatwaves & extreme ocean acidity months in advance? It's now possible thanks to Samuel Mogen, Nicole Lovenduski, & collaborators. Their work could help protect marine life as climate change worsens. Read our news story: www.colorado.edu/instaar/2024...

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🚨 New ice core paper that dives deep into the signal vs noise of temperature reconstructions 🧊 TYLER JONES et al. reply to a study that questions the results of his team's 2023 Nature paper "Seasonal temperatures in West Antarctica during the Holocene" doi.org/10.1038/s415...

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🍿 This Thursday eve, attend a free film screening & followup Q&A session. For those who can't make it in person, we've added a Zoom option ⬇️

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2025 NNA ANNUAL COMMUNITY MEETING 📍 Boulder, Colorado • March 23rd 🆓 Free registration for this in-person event. 👤 For folks working with NSF's Navigating the New Arctic initiative or interested in it. 🗓️ Held in conjunction with Arctic Science Summit Week (ASSW) 2025 in Boulder.

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¡Hola A Todos! 👋🏾 Join the Spanish Language Lunch table this Thursday, January 30th at 12pm in the SEEC Café. We'll have lots of fun while practicing our vocabulary & listening skills. All welcome. Cohosts: Cohosts: Leanne Lestak & Edgart Flores Rafael Info: https://buff.ly/4eBESKS

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🏔️ For mountain streams, there is a hidden rhythm & flow. Knowing how water is stored helps predict how streams & water quality will respond to climate warming & drier conditions 👍🏽 Nice work by Dynamic Water group: Eric Parrish, illustrator INSTAAR & Keira Johnson, grad student @osuceoas.bsky.social

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🍿 This Thursday eve, attend a free film screening & followup Q&A session. For those who can't make it in person, we've added a Zoom option ⬇️

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🧪 DIANE MCKNIGHT, Adam Odorisio, & other CU scientists sampled water from a tributary to Colorado's Roaring Fork River & found high conc of some metals + rare earth elements. What the latter means for human & aquatic health is unclear. Aspen Journalism's story aspenjournalism.org/rare-earth-e...

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📢 Monday seminar! Development of cyberinfrastructure elements for advancing earth surface system modeling TIAN GAN, CSDMS postdoc & software engineer Mon 27 Jan 12-1 PM in SEEC S228 & Zoom See abstract & more at https://buff.ly/40u1ZAU

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📢 Applications are open for INSTAAR's 2025 Summer Scholars program to support grad student research at CU Boulder. This week, we sat down with 2024 recipients NATALIE ARANDA & JED LENETSKY to learn more about their experience www.colorado.edu/instaar/2025...

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1 week left to apply! Join us this summer for our 2025 ESIIL Innovation Summit! Visit our event website to learn more and apply today! cu-esiil.github.io/Innovation-S...

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🏆 Congrats again to JONATHAN HENN @hennhouse.bsky.social for winning a CU Boulder RIO 'outstanding postdoc of the year' award! Lots of competition & only 2 recipients! Advised by K. Suding & @m-j-spasojevic.bsky.social ➡️ Read our recent conversation with Jon www.colorado.edu/instaar/2025...

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🚨 Don’t forget, the virtual Inclusive Mentoring Workshop with Dr. Anne Gold is THIS THURSDAY! Join us to learn how to create inclusive research environments, foster meaningful mentoring relationships, and build strong support networks. Register today: https://buff.ly/4jbPrqA 🌟

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🌱 See the latest article in a back-and-forth conversation amongst ecologists on using plant functional traits (e.g., leaf area, root biomass) for restoration onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/... The authors are an INSTAAR team led by grad student T. MERCHANT (INSTAAR+EBIO) @tkmerchant.bsky.social

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