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NASA Selects CU-Boulder To Lead $485 Million Mars Mission: Planetary scientist Bruce Jakosky is the principal investigator of a $485 million NASA orbiting space mission that is being led by the University of Colorado at Boulder to probe the Mars atmosphere for clues to past climates.

Marchitto/Lehman paper wins Provost's award: Congratulations to Tom Marchitto who has been selected to receive a Provost's Faculty Achievement Award. The award is in recognition of the paper "Marine radiocarbon evidence for the mechanism of deglacial atmospheric CO2 rise, Science, 316, 1456-1459, 2007." coauthored with Scott Lehman and others. Click here to read the paper, and click here for a news and views article about the paper.

Emily Knowles awarded NASA Fellowship: Graduate student Emily Knowles was recently awarded a three year PhD Fellowship from the NASA Earth and Space Sciences Fellowship Program
for her proposal entitled "Interpreting physical and chemical biosignatures in basalt".

Greenland Ice Core Analysis Shows Drastic Climate Change Near End Of Last Ice Age

Ice flow alone explains why fjords are cut so deep Full Published pdf News & Views

Global Earthquake Fatalities Expected To Rise

Chile's Erupting Chaiten Volcano One Of Scores Of Active Volcanoes In Region, Says CU-Boulder Prof. Charles Stern
AP Link to story

New dates for Grand Canyon

Dust In West Up 500 Percent In 200 Years

Baffin Island Ice Caps Shrink By 50 Percent Since 1950s

Alaska Glacier Speed-Up Tied To Internal Plumbing Issues: A University of Colorado at Boulder study indicates meltwater periodically overwhelms the interior drainpipes of Alaska's Kennicott Glacier and causes it to lurch forward, similar to processes that may help explain the acceleration of glaciers observed recently on the Greenland ice sheet that are contributing to global sea rise.
'Critical Zone' Of Boulder Creek Watershed To Be Studied By CU-Boulder Researchers: A team of researchers at the University of Colorado at Boulder, including Geological Sciences scientists Bob Anderson, Anne Sheehan and Greg Tucker, has received a $4.25 million grant from the National Science Foundation to study the Boulder Creek watershed's "critical zone," which is made up of layers of soil and weathered rock.

U.S. Fires Release Huge Amounts Of Carbon Dioxide, Says New Study

Glaciers And Ice Caps To Dominate Sea-Level Rise Through 21st Century, CU-Boulder Study Says

CU-Boulder Study Shows Desert Droughts Lead To Earlier Annual Mountain Snow Loss

CO2 pulses tracked by Marchito and Lehman: Study of carbon 14 in sediment cores by Thomas Marchitto and Scott Lehman shows that carbon built up in the oceans over millennia was released in two big pulses, one about 18,000 years ago and one 13,000 years ago.

Graduate student Timothy Bartholomaus was awarded an AGU best student paper award from the AGU Cryosphere section for his poster: "Melt Season Surface Velocities at the Kennicott Glacier, Alaska, Including Response to the 2006 Hidden Creek Lake Outburst Flood" presented at the Fall 2006 AGU
Tim's co-authors on the poster were Bob Anderson and Suzanne Anderson.

Syvitski To Lead New NSF Earth Modeling Research Effort

Harig, Levandowski win student paper awards at AGU: Chris Harig and Will Levandowski are the recipients of Best Student Paper awards from the Tectonophysics (Harig) and Seismology (Levandowski) sections of AGU. Harig's presentation was entitled "Pressure difference across continental keel and their implications on upper mantle viscosity." and his coauthor was Prof. Shijie Zhong.
Levandowski's award was for his presentation " Receiver functions from medium aperture broadband beams and the Moho of the Sierra Nevada, California" coauthored with Prof. Craig Jones. Levandowski was an IRIS undergraduate intern at CU during the summer of 2006, and will begin his graduate studies at CU in 2008.

Brian Yanites awarded NDSEG Fellowship: Brian Yanites has been awarded a National Defense Science and Engineering Graduate (NDSEG) Fellowship funded by the U.S. Department of Defense. Brian is working with Prof. Greg Tucker on the response of landscapes to tectonic and climatic forcings. In particular, he is working on fluvial incision models for central Taiwan.
Congratulations Brian!

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