Our Affiliates are senior-level scientists, journalists, communicators, and artists. While not employed through INSTAAR, they work closely with INSTAAR researchers on a wide range of climate and environmental science projects, art-science collaborations, and public engagement. Prospective affiliates should contact individual INSTAAR Fellows to explore potential partnerships.

Laura Backus
INSTAAR Affiliate • Technical Advisor, Wildlands Restoration Volunteers • Ecologist, Engineers Without Borders • • Restoration of riparian ecology • Flood recovery

James Balog
INSTAAR Affiliate • Director, Extreme Ice Survey • • Photography • Glaciers

Peter Brannen
INSTAAR Affiliate • Science journalist • • Paleoclimate • Science communication

Diane Burko
INSTAAR Affiliate • Artist • • Global change • Science communication

Daniela Cusack
INSTAAR Affiliate • Associate Professor of Ecosystem Science & Sustainability, Colorado State University • Research Associate, Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute • • Alpine and rainforest soil biogeochemistry

Steven Dykstra
INSTAAR Affiliate • Postdoctoral Research Fellow, University of South Carolina • • River-marine transitions • Flood risk • Human impacts

Scott Elias
INSTAAR Affiliate • Professor of Geography, University of London Royal Holloway • • Quaternary studies • Paleoecology

Chris Florian
INSTAAR Affiliate • Research Scientist, NEON

Áslaug Geirsdóttir
INSTAAR Affiliate • Professor, Department of Earth Sciences, University of Iceland • • Quaternary stratigraphy • Glacial geology • Paleoclimatology

Timothy Kittel
Research Affiliate • Lecturer, CU Mountain Research Station • Editor-in-Chief, Climate • • Global change biology • Climate science
Ecology and Evolutionary Biology

Joey Knelman
INSTAAR Affiliate • Science writer • • Microbial ecology • Biogeochemistry • UX design research

John Knowles
INSTAAR Affiliate • Assistant Professor of Ecohydrology, California State University Chico • • Ecosystem hydrology • Ecosystem ecology

Josh Koch
INSTAAR Affiliate • Research Hydrologist, US Geological Survey • • Surface water-groundwater interactions • Hyporheic zone hydrology and biogeochemistry

Kerry Koepping
INSTAAR Affiliate • Director, The Arctic Arts Project • • Climate change photography • Science communication

Delwyn Moller
INSTAAR Affiliate • Adjunct Professor, University of Auckland • Technical Consultant, Restore Lab Ltd. • • Remote sensing systems for Earth sciences

Rob Motta
INSTAAR Affiliate • • Climate change communication

Sheila Murphy
INSTAAR Affiliate • Research Hydrologist, US Geological Survey • • Water quality • Disturbance • Wildfires • Runoff • Surface water

Eric Sokol
INSTAAR Affiliate • Quantitative Ecologist, National Ecological Observatory Network (NEON)

Ethan Welty
INSTAAR Affiliate • Postdoctoral Researcher, University of Zürich • Photographer, Ethan Welty Photography • • Glacier dynamics • Environmental photography • Computer vision