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Sad news: MARTHA ANDREWS passed away on May 5, 2025 at her home in Boulder with her husband John by her side. Martha spent 30 years of her exceptional career in library science & polar environmental record-keeping at INSTAAR. She will be sorely missed colorado.edu/instaar/2025/0…

🌎 BioTIME 2.0: An international group of scientists have come together to track biodiversity changes over almost 150 years and five continents. INSTAAR fellows Sarah Elmendorf and Diane McKnight contributed to this ambitious effort. onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/ge…

🗻 🧊 🗻 Bob and Suzanne Anderson demystify the rare conditions that lead to rock glacier formation in a new paper aptly titled "Lingering beneath crumbling walls." pubs.geoscienceworld.org/gsa/geology/ar…

Antarctic sea ice is changing. A new study in Geophysical Research Letters teases out the nuances of when and how the ice retreats from the coast each summer. Kenza Himmich led a team that includes INSTAAR senior research associate Sharon Stammerjohn. buff.ly/LopL8vG

🌱 🌊 INSTAAR's summer scholarships are supporting two outstanding PhD students this summer. Learn more about Harry Allbrook and Hunter-Geist Sanchez's research in our latest Q&A buff.ly/o8WEyMo

Sukuan Liu will kick off the MRS summer seminar series with a deep dive into Heliamphora, a genus of South American pitcher plants. Join us in Nederland this Wednesday! buff.ly/HtddF5L

🔭 INSTAAR researcher Robert Brakenridge has been trying to understand how distant exploding stars may have affected Earth’s atmosphere & climate. He investigated events of the past 50,000 years in a new Royal Astronomical Society paper. Read our story colorado.edu/instaar/2025/0…

🙌🏽 Shoutout to the Taylor Lab members involved in this recent Evolution Letters paper: Georgy Semenov, Haley Kenyon, Will Anderson, & Scott Taylor. Extra kudos to Georgy for leading the multi-university team!

Going to #ESA2025 in Baltimore? Want free, continental-scale biodiversity data? Tools to explore NEON & @uslter datasets in your R environment? Check out a short course led by Eric Sokol (INSTAAR affiliate & NEON ecologist) on Fri Aug 15th: events.rdmobile.com/Sessions/Detai…

🏔️The Mountain Research Station CU Boulder 🦬 hosts the Guild of Rocky Mountain Ecologists & Evolutionary Biologists (GREEBs) on Sept 26-28 • Low-stress & inclusive mtg • Talks do NOT need to be about Rocky Mtns • Accommodation & meal options See more at colorado.edu/conference/gre…

Decoding 🌟 firefly communication & conservation in Colorado Join us for a *free* evening talk by Orit Peleg at the Mountain Research Station (run by CU Boulder 🦬 + INSTAAR): 🗓 Wed Jun 18th 🕖 7:00 pm 📍Between Ward & Nederland CO 🔗 calendar.colorado.edu/event/orit-pel…

🌱🔥 Grassland fires are becoming more frequent and more dangerous across the country. Ecologist Katharine Suding has spent her career understanding the ecosystems that produce them. She shares insights in a Q&A colorado.edu/today/2025/06/…

👏🏽 Kudos to all the authors of this new book on Antarctica and the Earth System, including INSTAARites Cassandra Brooks & Sharon Stammerjohn. They are both chapter lead authors! bsky.app/profile/oceana…

⛰️ Rock glaciers everywhere — at least in the Colorado Rockies. New research from Robert and Suzanne Anderson investigates how they formed, and what benefits they might provide for alpine ecosystems colorado.edu/instaar/2025/0…

Ornithologists & amateur birders alike are flocking to a pond on 95th street to catch a rare glimpse of a tropical anhinga in Boulder. INSTAAR fellow and Mountain Research Station director Scott Taylor was interviewed for this piece in CPR News cpr.org/2025/06/17/anh…