This
program includes faculty rostered in the departments of Geological Sciences, Geography, and Anthropology, as well as in
the Institute of Arctic and Alpine Research (INSTAAR). The primary laboratories are housed in the Benson Earth
Sciences Building on the Main Campus and in INSTAAR on the East Campus. The Mountain Research Station,
maintained by INSTAAR, 25 miles west of Boulder, provides access to the upper montane,
sub-alpine, and alpine environments of the Colorado Front Range. A significant portion of
the Water Resources Division of the U.S.
Geological Survey is located on the East campus.Research Programs
The main interest in these programs is to
understand the processes responsible for Quaternary climate and environmental change, and
the linkages between the components of the various systems that control the Earth's
surface environment and their implications for the future.
Research Facilities
Laboratory-based research is concentrated
in the primary analytical facilities at INSTAAR. Quaternary geochronology, including
racemization dating, high-precision strontium dating, acceleration radiocarbon dating, and
light stable-isotope research, all take place at the Center for Geochronological Research
of INSTAAR. Soil-forming processes and sediment transport mechanisms are addressed in the
soils, X-ray, and sedimentology laboratories in the Department building.
Micropaleontology, palynology, and entymology are the focus of facilities in the
Department, Museum, and INSTAAR.
| Department Faculty |
Surficial
Processes/Quaternary
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Robert
S. Anderson
Geomorphology, mechanics and timing of landscape evolution |
website
email
phone
(303) 735-8169 |
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Tom Marchitto
Paleoclimatology, paleoceanography, carbonate geochemistry, rapid climate change |
website
email
phone
(303) 492-6388 |
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Giff Miller
Director, Center for Geochronological Research at INSTAAR. Quaternary stratigraphy and
geochronology; glacial geology and climate change; amino acid racemization (Svalbard,
Arctic Canada, Australia) |
website
email
phone
(303) 492-8437 |
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Jason C. Neff
Biogeochemistry |
website
email
phone
(303) 492-6187 |
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James Syvitski
Executive Director of CSDMS;
Community Surface Dynamics Modeling System. Sediment transport, oceanography, marine
geophysics, numerical modeling (climate-ice-water-sediment interactions) |
website
email
phone
(303) 735-5482 |
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James White
Light stable-isotope geochemistry; climate dynamics; paleoclimate from ice cores;
carbon-cycle dynamics; isotopic fractionation in plants; mixing histories and formation of
ground waters |
website
email
phone
(303) 492-5494 |
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