Meet an INSTAAR

Get to know some of the INSTAARs helping us foster Earth system research and education in service of a just and thriving world.

Five questions and answers

 

Michael Dyonisius

Take 5 with Michael Dyonisius

Michael is a postdoc with INSTAAR’s Laboratory for AMS Radiocarbon Preparation and Research, a keen investigator of greenhouse gas fluxes, and an occasional ukulele-playing indie pop fan. 

Meet Michael 

 

Take 5 with Rahila Yilangai

Rahila is a PhD student from Nigeria, who navigates her research with deep curiosity and a passion for ecohydrology. She is part of INSTAAR’s Ecohydrology Lab led by Holly Barnard.

Meet Rahila 

 

With clear blue skies, Rahila Yilangai takes a summer selfie while doing fieldwork on a forested ridge, with a broad valley below and mountain skyline of Crested Butte Colorado

 

Wendy Roth inspects a sediment core, with a wall of additional cores behind her

Take 5 with Wendy Roth

INSTAARs know Wendy as the manager of several shared laboratories and spaces. With a wealth of expertise and connections, she bridges between multiple analytical areas and research programs.

Meet Wendy 

Crump Fellowship recipients

Q&A with Katie Gannon, Sarah Crump Graduate Fellowship winner

Incoming PhD student Katie Gannon (Ecology and Evolutionary Biology) has garnered this year’s Sarah Crump Graduate Fellowship. She will investigate greenhouse gas emissions from seasonally ice-covered lakes, working with advisor Bella Oleksy.

Q&A with Sara Padula, first recipient of the Sarah Crump Graduate Fellowship

We are proud to announce Sara Padula as the first recipient of the Sarah Crump Graduate Fellowship. The fellowship provides summer support for a graduate student researching Earth or environmental science in Arctic, Antarctic, or alpine regions. We caught up with Sara to ask about her research, her summer, and life as a scientist.

Twitter/X threads

Learn about Denise's studies of hydrogen emissions from cars as an undergraduate at UC Irvine.  At Â鶹Ãâ·Ñ°æÏÂÔØBoulder, she has starting a project to better understand water chemistry from chemical weathering of dust on glaciers.

Dylan evaluates climate change impacts on Arctic rivers, ice transportation corridors, fish, and Indigenous communities by weaving together observations, modeling, and Indigenous Knowledges.

Sáde is studying how floods mess with trees and how that plays into the larger carbon cycle. Ride along to clamber over logjams and spend some quality time in the lab.

Join Shaily and her team as they investigate the effects of a hurricane on the sedimentary silica cycle, starting with collecting seafloor and river bottom samples in Louisiana.

 


 Invited speaker at the 50th Arctic Workshop

 
Grad student who studies nutrient cycling in the oceans 


Stable isotope guru and volunteer firefighter


& Andrea Sparrow of the Arctic Arts Project