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Excited to highlight the 126th Distinguished Research Lecture by Alexis, celebrating groundbreaking scholarship and the vibrant research community at CU Boulder! 🎓✨ This lecture showcases the depth, creativity, and impact of work happening across campus.
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126th Distinguished Research Lecture: Alexis Templeton
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November 19, 2025 at 5:00 PM
Excited to highlight the 126th Distinguished Research Lecture by Alexis, celebrating groundbreaking scholarship and the vibrant research community at CU Boulder! 🎓✨ This lecture showcases the depth, creativity, and impact of work happening across campus.
Learn more:
www.colorado.edu/researchinno...
Learn more:
www.colorado.edu/researchinno...
🧊💡 CU Boulder researchers have awakened microbes trapped in Arctic permafrost for tens of thousands of years—and found that they spring back to life when thawed. Their activity could offer new insights into climate feedbacks and Earth’s ancient ecosystems.
Read more: www.colorado.edu/today/2025/1...
Read more: www.colorado.edu/today/2025/1...
Researchers wake up microbes trapped in permafrost for thousands of years
Across the Arctic, bacteria and other microorganisms have become trapped underground in frozen soil and ice. A new study finds that these ancient microbes may
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October 6, 2025 at 3:25 PM
🧊💡 CU Boulder researchers have awakened microbes trapped in Arctic permafrost for tens of thousands of years—and found that they spring back to life when thawed. Their activity could offer new insights into climate feedbacks and Earth’s ancient ecosystems.
Read more: www.colorado.edu/today/2025/1...
Read more: www.colorado.edu/today/2025/1...
Adam Manaster, a previous CU Graduate Student and co-author, along with Anne Sheehan, wrote a groundbreaking study on a landslide-triggered tsunami captured via satellite and ship data for the first time. Read it yourself below!
🔗 Paper: tinyurl.com/3p2379fc
📖 Article: tinyurl.com/6rxhhvnj
🔗 Paper: tinyurl.com/3p2379fc
📖 Article: tinyurl.com/6rxhhvnj
Detection of Landslide‐Generated Tsunami by Shipborne GNSS Precise Point Positioning
We present the first observation of a landslide-generated tsunami from Global Navigation Satellite System (GNSS) precise positioning of ships The R/V Sikuliaq detected waves in Resurrection Bay i...
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May 14, 2025 at 5:13 PM
Adam Manaster, a previous CU Graduate Student and co-author, along with Anne Sheehan, wrote a groundbreaking study on a landslide-triggered tsunami captured via satellite and ship data for the first time. Read it yourself below!
🔗 Paper: tinyurl.com/3p2379fc
📖 Article: tinyurl.com/6rxhhvnj
🔗 Paper: tinyurl.com/3p2379fc
📖 Article: tinyurl.com/6rxhhvnj
Cool new work from CU GEOL, CIRES, and LASP
University of Colorado Boulder: Did It Rain or Snow on Ancient Mars? New Study Suggests It Did www.colorado.edu/today/2025/0...
Did it rain or snow on ancient Mars? New study suggests it did
Artist's depiction of water rushing into Mars' Jezero Crater, which billions of years ago was the site of a delta. (Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech) Visit ancient
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May 4, 2025 at 12:56 AM
Cool new work from CU GEOL, CIRES, and LASP
🧬 Where does all the photosynthetic sugar go?
Come hear Dr. Ana Gonzalez Nayeck break it down at our Geo Colloquium!
🗓️ Tues 4/23
🕛 Snacks @ 12:00 | Talk @ 12:20
📍Benson 380
Marine microbes, carbon isotopes, and sweet science 🍬🌊 #Geology #ScienceTalks #CUEvents
Come hear Dr. Ana Gonzalez Nayeck break it down at our Geo Colloquium!
🗓️ Tues 4/23
🕛 Snacks @ 12:00 | Talk @ 12:20
📍Benson 380
Marine microbes, carbon isotopes, and sweet science 🍬🌊 #Geology #ScienceTalks #CUEvents
April 21, 2025 at 9:43 PM
🧬 Where does all the photosynthetic sugar go?
Come hear Dr. Ana Gonzalez Nayeck break it down at our Geo Colloquium!
🗓️ Tues 4/23
🕛 Snacks @ 12:00 | Talk @ 12:20
📍Benson 380
Marine microbes, carbon isotopes, and sweet science 🍬🌊 #Geology #ScienceTalks #CUEvents
Come hear Dr. Ana Gonzalez Nayeck break it down at our Geo Colloquium!
🗓️ Tues 4/23
🕛 Snacks @ 12:00 | Talk @ 12:20
📍Benson 380
Marine microbes, carbon isotopes, and sweet science 🍬🌊 #Geology #ScienceTalks #CUEvents
New paper from CU Boulder PhD student Abby Eckland (Geological Sciences & @instaar.bsky.social), with advisor Irina Overeem! Their research shows desert reservoirs like Elephant Butte can trap carbon during floods & droughts. Read more: doi.org/10.1029/2023...
Accelerated Organic Carbon Burial Rates Reconstructed in Elephant Butte Reservoir, New Mexico During a Megadrought
Sediment-laden Rio Grande inflows generate hyperpycnal plumes into Elephant Butte Reservoir Sedimentation and organic carbon (OC) burial rates are higher over the submerged reservoir bottom as op...
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April 16, 2025 at 10:08 PM
New paper from CU Boulder PhD student Abby Eckland (Geological Sciences & @instaar.bsky.social), with advisor Irina Overeem! Their research shows desert reservoirs like Elephant Butte can trap carbon during floods & droughts. Read more: doi.org/10.1029/2023...
This week’s CU Geo Colloquium features Dr. Erik Hanschen on how diploid algae handle spaceflight stress 🌿🪐 Join us 4/16 at 12:20pm in Benson 380. Come early for snacks + coffee! ☕ #CUGeo #SpaceAlgae #GeologyColloquium #SciTalks
April 14, 2025 at 8:01 PM
This week’s CU Geo Colloquium features Dr. Erik Hanschen on how diploid algae handle spaceflight stress 🌿🪐 Join us 4/16 at 12:20pm in Benson 380. Come early for snacks + coffee! ☕ #CUGeo #SpaceAlgae #GeologyColloquium #SciTalks
⚡️CU Geological Sciences Colloquium – Lightning Talks!
📅 Wed, April 9 | 🕐 12:20pm | 📍Benson 380
🥤Snacks & drinks @ 12:00
Hear quick-hit talks from Lexie Millikin, Daniel Gittens & Alta Howells on the GOE, aseismic slip, & methanogenesis on Enceladus!
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📅 Wed, April 9 | 🕐 12:20pm | 📍Benson 380
🥤Snacks & drinks @ 12:00
Hear quick-hit talks from Lexie Millikin, Daniel Gittens & Alta Howells on the GOE, aseismic slip, & methanogenesis on Enceladus!
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Colloquium
Our Spring 2025 colloquium series will be held in a hybrid mode - most presenters will present in-person in BESC 380, but their presentations will also be
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April 7, 2025 at 8:30 PM
⚡️CU Geological Sciences Colloquium – Lightning Talks!
📅 Wed, April 9 | 🕐 12:20pm | 📍Benson 380
🥤Snacks & drinks @ 12:00
Hear quick-hit talks from Lexie Millikin, Daniel Gittens & Alta Howells on the GOE, aseismic slip, & methanogenesis on Enceladus!
www.colorado.edu/geologicalsc...
📅 Wed, April 9 | 🕐 12:20pm | 📍Benson 380
🥤Snacks & drinks @ 12:00
Hear quick-hit talks from Lexie Millikin, Daniel Gittens & Alta Howells on the GOE, aseismic slip, & methanogenesis on Enceladus!
www.colorado.edu/geologicalsc...
🚨 Student Paper Alert! 🚨
Ethan Pierce (CU alum), with Irina Overeem & G. Jouvet, published a new study in JGR! The paper combines novel modeling of sediment entrainment and glacier dynamics with field observations🏔️🧊
Read it here: doi.org/10.1029/2024...
Ethan Pierce (CU alum), with Irina Overeem & G. Jouvet, published a new study in JGR! The paper combines novel modeling of sediment entrainment and glacier dynamics with field observations🏔️🧊
Read it here: doi.org/10.1029/2024...
Modeling Sediment Fluxes From Debris‐Rich Basal Ice Layers
We develop a model of sediment entrainment beneath an alpine glacier to predict sediment fluxes and basal ice stratigraphy at the terminus
The model explains the co-occurrence of solid, debris-ri...
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April 2, 2025 at 6:40 PM
🚨 Student Paper Alert! 🚨
Ethan Pierce (CU alum), with Irina Overeem & G. Jouvet, published a new study in JGR! The paper combines novel modeling of sediment entrainment and glacier dynamics with field observations🏔️🧊
Read it here: doi.org/10.1029/2024...
Ethan Pierce (CU alum), with Irina Overeem & G. Jouvet, published a new study in JGR! The paper combines novel modeling of sediment entrainment and glacier dynamics with field observations🏔️🧊
Read it here: doi.org/10.1029/2024...
New paper alert!
Grad student Kevin Rozmiarek leads a study on water-vapor isotopes and weather patterns over NE Greenland’s ice sheet. Findings offer key climate insights.🌀📊☁️
📄 Read the paper: doi.org/10.1029/2024...
📰 CU Today feature: www.colorado.edu/today/2025/0...
Grad student Kevin Rozmiarek leads a study on water-vapor isotopes and weather patterns over NE Greenland’s ice sheet. Findings offer key climate insights.🌀📊☁️
📄 Read the paper: doi.org/10.1029/2024...
📰 CU Today feature: www.colorado.edu/today/2025/0...
Atmosphere to Surface Profiles of Water‐Vapor Isotopes and Meteorological Conditions Over the Northeast Greenland Ice Sheet
The first campaign retrieval of summer water-vapor isotopes in central Greenland up to 1500 m above the ice sheet surface Model-observation gaps in atmospheric water-vapor isotopes can be used to...
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March 31, 2025 at 8:07 PM
New paper alert!
Grad student Kevin Rozmiarek leads a study on water-vapor isotopes and weather patterns over NE Greenland’s ice sheet. Findings offer key climate insights.🌀📊☁️
📄 Read the paper: doi.org/10.1029/2024...
📰 CU Today feature: www.colorado.edu/today/2025/0...
Grad student Kevin Rozmiarek leads a study on water-vapor isotopes and weather patterns over NE Greenland’s ice sheet. Findings offer key climate insights.🌀📊☁️
📄 Read the paper: doi.org/10.1029/2024...
📰 CU Today feature: www.colorado.edu/today/2025/0...
New study in GeoHealth explores health risks of Martian dust for astronauts. Toxic particles like perchlorates and metals may cause respiratory issues. Proposed countermeasures include air filters, self-cleaning suits, and electrostatic shields. 👨🔬🌍🔬Read more below: doi.org/10.1029/2024...
Potential Health Impacts, Treatments, and Countermeasures of Martian Dust on Future Human Space Exploration
From microgravity to harmful radiation, human space exploration causes physiological changes, and a journey to Mars introduces novel issues The small size, oxidative properties, and chemical comp...
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March 31, 2025 at 8:03 PM
New study in GeoHealth explores health risks of Martian dust for astronauts. Toxic particles like perchlorates and metals may cause respiratory issues. Proposed countermeasures include air filters, self-cleaning suits, and electrostatic shields. 👨🔬🌍🔬Read more below: doi.org/10.1029/2024...
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Watch seismic waves from the M7.7 earthquake in Myanmar ripple across North America.
This animation, called a Ground Motion Visualization (GMV), shows how the ground moved as detected by seismometers across the continent.
This animation, called a Ground Motion Visualization (GMV), shows how the ground moved as detected by seismometers across the continent.
March 28, 2025 at 8:48 PM
Watch seismic waves from the M7.7 earthquake in Myanmar ripple across North America.
This animation, called a Ground Motion Visualization (GMV), shows how the ground moved as detected by seismometers across the continent.
This animation, called a Ground Motion Visualization (GMV), shows how the ground moved as detected by seismometers across the continent.
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📚 New paper alert! 🧵
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🧪 We present a unique dataset of 465 (!) in situ measurements of the #water_isotopes in vapor up to 1500m above the #Greenland Ice Sheet.
🌍 We demonstrate the use of water isotope profiles to reveal gaps in climate model physics.
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🧪 We present a unique dataset of 465 (!) in situ measurements of the #water_isotopes in vapor up to 1500m above the #Greenland Ice Sheet.
🌍 We demonstrate the use of water isotope profiles to reveal gaps in climate model physics.
March 17, 2025 at 12:51 PM
📚 New paper alert! 🧵
agupubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1029/...
🧪 We present a unique dataset of 465 (!) in situ measurements of the #water_isotopes in vapor up to 1500m above the #Greenland Ice Sheet.
🌍 We demonstrate the use of water isotope profiles to reveal gaps in climate model physics.
agupubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1029/...
🧪 We present a unique dataset of 465 (!) in situ measurements of the #water_isotopes in vapor up to 1500m above the #Greenland Ice Sheet.
🌍 We demonstrate the use of water isotope profiles to reveal gaps in climate model physics.
Join us for a fascinating colloquium talk with Daniel Coe on crafting effective Earth science graphics and maps! 🎨🗺️ Plus, explore the power of lidar in visualizing geologic and geomorphic features!
📅 Talk: Wednesday, 3/12 @12:20
📍 Location: Benson 380
📅 Talk: Wednesday, 3/12 @12:20
📍 Location: Benson 380
March 10, 2025 at 8:11 PM
Join us for a fascinating colloquium talk with Daniel Coe on crafting effective Earth science graphics and maps! 🎨🗺️ Plus, explore the power of lidar in visualizing geologic and geomorphic features!
📅 Talk: Wednesday, 3/12 @12:20
📍 Location: Benson 380
📅 Talk: Wednesday, 3/12 @12:20
📍 Location: Benson 380
Join us for Dr. Andrew Du's colloquium: The effects of time averaging on ecological inference in large mammal fossil assemblages 🏔️📡
📅 March 5th, 2025
📍 Benson 380 | 12:20 - 1:20 PM
☕ Snacks & coffee at noon outside Benson 380!
#GeologyColloquium #CUGeology
📅 March 5th, 2025
📍 Benson 380 | 12:20 - 1:20 PM
☕ Snacks & coffee at noon outside Benson 380!
#GeologyColloquium #CUGeology
March 5, 2025 at 4:09 PM
Join us for Dr. Andrew Du's colloquium: The effects of time averaging on ecological inference in large mammal fossil assemblages 🏔️📡
📅 March 5th, 2025
📍 Benson 380 | 12:20 - 1:20 PM
☕ Snacks & coffee at noon outside Benson 380!
#GeologyColloquium #CUGeology
📅 March 5th, 2025
📍 Benson 380 | 12:20 - 1:20 PM
☕ Snacks & coffee at noon outside Benson 380!
#GeologyColloquium #CUGeology
🌍✨ How fiber-optic cables are changing earthquake science!
Dr. Jimmy Atterholt presents: Imaging Big Things at Fine Scales with Fiber-Measured Earthquake Wavefields 🏔️📡
📅 Feb 26, 2025
📍 Benson 380 | 12:20 - 1:20 PM
☕ Snacks & coffee at noon outside Benson 380!
Dr. Jimmy Atterholt presents: Imaging Big Things at Fine Scales with Fiber-Measured Earthquake Wavefields 🏔️📡
📅 Feb 26, 2025
📍 Benson 380 | 12:20 - 1:20 PM
☕ Snacks & coffee at noon outside Benson 380!
February 24, 2025 at 9:54 PM
🌍✨ How fiber-optic cables are changing earthquake science!
Dr. Jimmy Atterholt presents: Imaging Big Things at Fine Scales with Fiber-Measured Earthquake Wavefields 🏔️📡
📅 Feb 26, 2025
📍 Benson 380 | 12:20 - 1:20 PM
☕ Snacks & coffee at noon outside Benson 380!
Dr. Jimmy Atterholt presents: Imaging Big Things at Fine Scales with Fiber-Measured Earthquake Wavefields 🏔️📡
📅 Feb 26, 2025
📍 Benson 380 | 12:20 - 1:20 PM
☕ Snacks & coffee at noon outside Benson 380!
🚨 CU undergrad-led paper is a top 10 most-read Lithosphere article of 2024! 🚨 Kainz et al. use (U-Th)/He thermochronology to reveal major Oligo-Miocene exhumation in SE Colorado’s High Plains, shedding light on Rocky Mountain uplift. Read it here: doi.org/10.2113/2023... #Geology#GeoBuffs
February 12, 2025 at 7:37 PM
🚨 CU undergrad-led paper is a top 10 most-read Lithosphere article of 2024! 🚨 Kainz et al. use (U-Th)/He thermochronology to reveal major Oligo-Miocene exhumation in SE Colorado’s High Plains, shedding light on Rocky Mountain uplift. Read it here: doi.org/10.2113/2023... #Geology#GeoBuffs
Paper Alert!❄️
Research led by graduate student Jordan Herbert reanalyzes how well automated snow monitoring stations represent surrounding snow depth using airborne lidar data. Shows spatial variability and suggests improvements for snow measurement networks.
tc.copernicus.org/articles/18/...
Research led by graduate student Jordan Herbert reanalyzes how well automated snow monitoring stations represent surrounding snow depth using airborne lidar data. Shows spatial variability and suggests improvements for snow measurement networks.
tc.copernicus.org/articles/18/...
February 6, 2025 at 11:44 PM
Paper Alert!❄️
Research led by graduate student Jordan Herbert reanalyzes how well automated snow monitoring stations represent surrounding snow depth using airborne lidar data. Shows spatial variability and suggests improvements for snow measurement networks.
tc.copernicus.org/articles/18/...
Research led by graduate student Jordan Herbert reanalyzes how well automated snow monitoring stations represent surrounding snow depth using airborne lidar data. Shows spatial variability and suggests improvements for snow measurement networks.
tc.copernicus.org/articles/18/...
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ICY RIVER: Follow faculty member IRINA OVEREEM & grad student JOSIE ARCURI as they set up sensors to monitor when the Canning River, clogged by winter ice, begins to flow. Filmed by Ryan Vachon.
Watch the ~30 minute video online at:
PBS www.pbs.org/video/icy-ri...
Vimeo vimeo.com/901251616/ea...
Watch the ~30 minute video online at:
PBS www.pbs.org/video/icy-ri...
Vimeo vimeo.com/901251616/ea...
February 3, 2025 at 8:51 PM
ICY RIVER: Follow faculty member IRINA OVEREEM & grad student JOSIE ARCURI as they set up sensors to monitor when the Canning River, clogged by winter ice, begins to flow. Filmed by Ryan Vachon.
Watch the ~30 minute video online at:
PBS www.pbs.org/video/icy-ri...
Vimeo vimeo.com/901251616/ea...
Watch the ~30 minute video online at:
PBS www.pbs.org/video/icy-ri...
Vimeo vimeo.com/901251616/ea...
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Postdoctoral position in hydrogeology; Davis, CA or Las Vegas, NV. Reviews will start 1 March. See also: csdms.colorado.edu/wiki/Jobs
February 3, 2025 at 9:51 PM
Postdoctoral position in hydrogeology; Davis, CA or Las Vegas, NV. Reviews will start 1 March. See also: csdms.colorado.edu/wiki/Jobs
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Want to be a part of saving our ocean, our planet, and our future? We’re #hiring! Check out some of our #STEMjob postings today if you’re #opentowork: careers.whoi.edu
February 3, 2025 at 6:35 PM
Want to be a part of saving our ocean, our planet, and our future? We’re #hiring! Check out some of our #STEMjob postings today if you’re #opentowork: careers.whoi.edu
Summer internships for both undergraduate and graduate students, variety of opportunities, deadline Feb. 15
There's two weeks left to submit an application to one of our summer internship programs!
Apply by February 15 for:
🔬Geo-Launchpad
🧑🔬 RESESS
📊 Student Career Internship Program
➡️ https://www.earthscope.org/education/student-internships/
Apply by February 15 for:
🔬Geo-Launchpad
🧑🔬 RESESS
📊 Student Career Internship Program
➡️ https://www.earthscope.org/education/student-internships/
February 1, 2025 at 7:07 PM
Summer internships for both undergraduate and graduate students, variety of opportunities, deadline Feb. 15
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Geology is finished
January 29, 2025 at 8:51 PM
Geology is finished
Summer internship, deadline Feb. 9
RECCS is a paid summer research internship program open to community college students in Colorado, Nebraska, Wyoming, Utah, New Mexico, and Kansas. Applications for Summer 2025 are due by Feb. 9, 2025: https://buff.ly/3DOY0Y7
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@ciresceee.bsky.social @colorado.edu
February 1, 2025 at 12:36 AM
Summer internship, deadline Feb. 9
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From AGU's @eos.org — Deep beneath California’s Sierra Nevada, Earth’s lithosphere may be peeling away. Story highlights work led by CIRES' Vera Schulte-Pelkum.
Deep Beneath California’s Sierra Nevada, Earth’s Lithosphere May Be Peeling Away - Eos
Evidence for lithospheric foundering, or the process of denser material sinking into the mantle, is emerging.
eos.org
January 21, 2025 at 4:00 PM
From AGU's @eos.org — Deep beneath California’s Sierra Nevada, Earth’s lithosphere may be peeling away. Story highlights work led by CIRES' Vera Schulte-Pelkum.