Faculty News

Assistant Professor Leilani Arthurs and colleagues from two other institutions were awarded a $3 million NSF-IUSE grant: Collaborative Research: IUSE: EHR: Promoting Research-based Instructional Methods for Enhancing and Reforming STEM Education (PRIMERS). The goal of the project is to move undergraduate science, technology, engineering, and mathematics instructors towards more learner-centered...

Professors Irina Overeem and Giff Miller and their colleagues just published a commentary in Future Earth on impacts of Arctic warming . Highlights can be found in an NSIDC press release: https://nsidc.org/news/newsroom/arctic-change-has-widespread-impacts . An additional article is at: Eos: Modeling the melting permafrost

CU press: https://www.colorado.edu/today/2019/02/11/sand-glacial-melt-could-be-greenlands-economic-salvation Nature Sustainability: https://www.nature.com/articles/s41893-018-0218-6 New York Times: https://www.nytimes.com/reuters/2019/02/11/world/europe/11reuters-climatechange-greenland.html Reuters: https://www.reuters.com/article/us-climatechange-greenland/as-ice-melts-greenland-could-become-big-sand-exporter-study-idUSKCN1Q01YG

The research of Assistant Professor Mike Willis has recently been recognized in several media outlets. CIRES - Greenland Ice Melting Four Times Faster Than in 2003 PNAS - Accelerating changes in ice mass within Greenland, and the ice sheet’s sensitivity to atmospheric forcing BBC - Satellites saw rapid Greenland ice...

Associate Professor Brian Hynek will spend the holidays working with a small NASA team to collect meteorites in Antarctica. This is professor Hynek’s second deployment to the ice to work with the Antarctic Search for Meteorites (ANSMET). The team is working in at a remote camp near Mount Davis and...

Unprecedented Ice Loss in Russian Ice Cap New CU Boulder-led study shows just how quickly cold glaciers can change speed, lose mass In the last few years, the Vavilov Ice Cap in the Russian High Arctic has dramatically accelerated, sliding as much as 82 feet a day in 2015, according...