Meet an INSTAAR
Get to know some of the INSTAARs helping us foster Earth system research and education in service of a just and thriving world.
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Crump Fellowship recipients
Q&A with Katie Gannon, Sarah Crump Graduate Fellowship winner
Incoming PhD student Katie Gannon (Ecology and Evolutionary Biology) has garnered this year’s Sarah Crump Graduate Fellowship. She will investigate greenhouse gas emissions from seasonally ice-covered lakes, working with advisor Bella Oleksy.
Q&A with Sara Padula, first recipient of the Sarah Crump Graduate Fellowship
We are proud to announce Sara Padula as the first recipient of the Sarah Crump Graduate Fellowship. The fellowship provides summer support for a graduate student researching Earth or environmental science in Arctic, Antarctic, or alpine regions. We caught up with Sara to ask about her research, her summer, and life as a scientist.
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Learn about Denise's studies of hydrogen emissions from cars as an undergraduate at UC Irvine. At CU Boulder, she has starting a project to better understand water chemistry from chemical weathering of dust on glaciers.
Dylan evaluates climate change impacts on Arctic rivers, ice transportation corridors, fish, and Indigenous communities by weaving together observations, modeling, and Indigenous Knowledges.
Sáde is studying how floods mess with trees and how that plays into the larger carbon cycle. Ride along to clamber over logjams and spend some quality time in the lab.
Join Shaily and her team as they investigate the effects of a hurricane on the sedimentary silica cycle, starting with collecting seafloor and river bottom samples in Louisiana.