ICYMI Feb post - 👏 Congrats INSTAAR Fellow JULIO SEPÚLVEDA Julio Sepúlveda ❤️🇵🇸🕊️ for starting an added role as INSTAAR's first Assistant Director of Justice, Equity, Diversity, & Inclusion (JEDI)

He's also an Assoc Professor in Geological Sciences & INSTAAR buff.ly/3PXWN3Q

Free climate comedy night at Boulder Theater, Monday April 15th at 7pm MT! Sponsored by InsideTheGreenhouse, Argosy Foundation, CUBoulderENVS, Theatre & Dance, CU Program Council, & City of Boulder insidethegreenhouse.org/node/5283

INSTAAR Postdoc LAURA SUNBERG will speak at the ATOC at CU-Boulder Colloquium on the 'impact of biofouling on the regional-scale transport of microplastics'. Postdoc Arianna Varuolo-Clarke will also be speaking.
🗓 Fri Apr 12th 11:00am
📍 SEEC S372A/B & Zoom
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INSTAAR 🏳️‍🌈 The April 1st Real Time SWE report for the Sierra Nevada was just sent out, long-term averages range between 90-138%. Contact Leanne Lestak to get emailed report #CAwater #CAwx #CAclimate CA - DWR #westernwater #water #rainonsnow #climate change #climate waterobs

👏 Congrats HOLLY OLIVAREZ for receiving a NOAA Climate & Global Change Postdoc Fellowship. Her research will assess how solar radiation management strategies, such as marine cloud brightening, could impact the ocean as a carbon sink
More abt 🍉 🇾🇪 Holly Olivarez still 😷 (she/her) colorado.edu/instaar/holly-…

Snow Today is back! In our latest analysis, written in collaboration with INSTAAR 🏳️‍🌈, we share a snow summary for March 2024 in the western US, discussing snow covered area, snow cover days, snow water equivalent, and more. Read it here: bit.ly/4d5chx5

Ensuring a livable planet for all: Journalists' perspectives from global reporting
Thurs April 11 3:15pm
Macky Auditorium CU Boulder 🦬
Livestreamed & recorded
A panel at the Conference on World Affairs (CWA) colorado.edu/cwa/

💧This week: 18th Hydrosciences Student Symposium, Thu-Fri April 11-12 CU Boulder 🦬 SEEC S228 & online. Free to attend but need to register by Wed April 10
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Register today for this panel discussion on 'Balancing childcare and work responsibilities in permafrost research' happening next Thursday from 12pm to 1pm MT!
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ICYMI 🙌🏽 Congrats to INSTAAR grad student Sara Padula 🥳 She won a 2024 U.S. National Science Foundation Graduate Research Fellowship! 3-yr annual stipend of $37K along w $16K cost of education allowance, plus professional development opportunities

Read a 2023 interview with Sara colorado.edu/instaar/2023/0…

🍿 Today at 1pm in SEEC C120: RASEI is hosting a screening of The Oil Machine, followed by a panel discussion with the filmmakers & RASEI folks

❄️💧 COMING SOON - A NEW LOOK AT WESTERN WATER

The Mtn Hydrology Group will be developing a new snowpack dataset to inform water supply managers in the western US, thanks to funding from Bureau of Reclamation to Noah Molotch, Leanne Lestak, Emma Tyrrell, & Karl Rittger
colorado.edu/instaar/2024/0…

#DYK that today’s #SolarEclipse can alter the #weather ? ☀️😎

Scientists at NOAA GSL are calculating how much the moon will block incoming solar radiation, which impacts heating of the Earth and therefore the weather.

Learn more here: gsl.noaa.gov/news-media/new…

📢 INSTAAR Noon Seminar:
Postdoc LINGWEI LI will discuss 'Mechanisms of global ocean ventilation age change during the last deglaciation' 🌎 🌊 🔁

Monday 8 April, 12:00 pm Mtn, SEEL 303 & on Zoom. Coffee, cookies, & pizza! buff.ly/4azJVZA

👏 Congrats PEYTON THOMAS (INSTAAR & CUBoulderENVS), a new Chancellor’s Postdoctoral Fellow for Faculty Diversity @CUBoulder. The $65K award will assist her studies of climate change & fish growth, incl w Arctic Rivers Project, & help w professional development

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❄️Nice relaunch for the western US! Snow Today includes 🗺️daily maps, 📉time series plots, & 📰data analysis articles. Thanks INSTAARs Karl Rittger, Sebastien Lenard, & Ross Palomaki; their National Snow and Ice Data Center colleagues; & funding from NASA

🙌🏽 Way to go Sara! Congratulations 🥳

🍿 RASEI is hosting a screening of The Oil Machine, followed by a panel discussion with the filmmakers & RASEI folks. Please register so they can figure out how much popcorn they need!
🗓 Tues April 9
🕐 1:00pm
📍 SEEC C120
Movie ends ~2:30pm, followed by discussion

☕️ Free/discounted coffee is just one perk of grad student appreciation week CU Boulder 🦬.
🙏🏽Thank you grad students. You're key to INSTAAR's research, culture, & outreach!

👏 Congrats to incoming PhD student KATIE GANNON, this year’s recipient of the Sarah Crump Grad Fellowship. She will work w Bella Oleksy @isabellaoleksy.bsky.social on greenhouse gas emissions from seasonally ice-covered lakes & has been lab manager Meredith Holgerson Eco and Evo Biology

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