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Institute of Arctic and Alpine Research - Earth & environmental science at CU-Boulder | Bluesky: instaar.bsky.social | Facebook:/InstArcticAlpineResearch

Boulder, CO colorado.edu/instaar/ Joined July 2009

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INSTAAR @INSTAAR Dec 22, 2025

Katie Suding's former student Isabel De Silva is featured in this CPR piece on moose in Colorado
cpr.org/2025/12/08/col…

www.cpr.org Have Colorado’s moose restoration efforts been too successful? Around 3,500 moose now wander Colorado. The hungry herbivores are also threatening a once-wetland-rich valley in Rocky Mountain National Park.

INSTAAR @INSTAAR Dec 19, 2025

🔥 INSTAARites in Boulder are hunkered down today for “extremely critical” fire weather conditions. Fortunately, no ignitions so far. Wish us luck!

🌬️ Peak wind gust 104 mph (NCAR Mesa Lab)
🌡️ Air temp ~65F
🌵 Humidity only ~9%
#COWX

Graph of average wind speed and peak gust for the NSF NCAR Mesa Lab above Boulder Colorado on 2025-12-19. See https://archive.eol.ucar.edu/cgi-bin/weather.cgi?site=ml&period=5-minute&units=english

INSTAAR @INSTAAR Dec 17, 2025

🧑🏽🔬 This week, 100s of @CUBoulder scientists -incl many INSTAARs- are participating in the #AGU25 Earth & space science conference. INSTAARs are helping with CU exhibit booth too. Thanks y'all!

See schedule of remaining talks & posters of CU participants colorado.edu/news/formedia/…

Exhibit booth for CU Boulder at the AGU2025 annual meeting in New Orleans (Photo: CU Boulder).

INSTAAR @INSTAAR Dec 17, 2025

🌊 The Arctic Rivers Project is weaving Indigenous Knowledge with empirical analysis to plan for the 21st century.

Last week, Eos writer Cassidy Beach featured INSTAAR fellow Keith Musselman in a piece on the innovative research effort.

buff.ly/aCWVz06

INSTAAR @INSTAAR Dec 16, 2025

Extract rare earth metals from contaminated Colorado streams?

Diane McKnight & Tom Marchitto are collaborators on a new project seeking to improve water quality while also increasing the domestic supply of raw materials for advanced technologies colorado.edu/instaar/2025/1…

www.colorado.edu Precious waterways: how contaminated mountain streams could power American-made technology Diane McKnight and Tom Marchitto are collaborators on a new project looking for a way to extract rare earth metals from contaminated Colorado streams. The goal