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What can and can't remote sensing do, when it comes to tracking harmful algae blooms?
A new paper from the University of Vermont, INSTAAR and City of Boulder OSMP has the answers. Read more from UVM's Water Resources Institute.
Not to sound like a broken record, but this snow drought really has been record-breaking.
Two recent updates from scientists drive home just how abysmal the West’s 2025-2026 snow season has been, with the snowpack hitting new lows in some datasets.
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Check out the latest from Snow Today, a collaboration between NSIDC and INSTAAR
Shrubs are making a play for more space. Not just in the arctic, but in the alpine too.
INSTAAR research associate Sarah Elmendorf and Mariana García Criado highlight an important new paper in a review for Global Change Biology.
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See upcoming seminars and guided walk signup on the Mountain Research Station website: www.colorado.edu/mrs/
👍🏽 for this summary of the Colorado River situation & its potential impacts on the Front Range. Written by Allen Best and featuring Jeff Lukas @lukasclimate.bsky.social, whose decades of climate change work include being a dendrochronologist at INSTAAR back in the day.
What happens when the world loses its disaster memory?
INSTAAR affiliate Albert Kettner is co-author on an open letter calling for support of EM-DAT, a global database of disasters and their impacts.
Read more from Carbon Brief:
Why are the rockies so, well... rocky?
That's the question behind a recent investigation from @cires.colorado.edu and INSTAAR. Suzanne and Robert Anderson are coauthors.
Nancy Emery kicked off the Mountain Research Station summer seminar series last night with a talk on the Niwot Ridge LTER and plant community ecology.
Join us at the station every Wednesday from now through August 26. Or sign up for a guided walk on mycology, natural history, orchids and more!
Most science is incremental. Occasionally, though, researchers uncover a relationship that reframes an entire system.
A new study by Bradley Markle and Eric Steig investigates a fundamental principle governing Antarctic temperature change. Read more in our latest story.
After a decade of work, INSTAAR fellow Bradley Markle and a collaborator published a study revealing how the greenhouse effect governs temperature changes
“I think Front Range cities will be asked, whether nicely or not, to reduce their Colorado River diversions,” said Jeff Lukas, a water consultant and former @wwanews.bsky.social and CIRES scientist.
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Snow-covered area across the West was 49 percent of average for May, ranking last in the 26-year satellite record. Snow water equivalent remained well below average in most states, confirming a worrisome outlook for the summer. Read NSIDC's Snow Today: https://bit.ly/3Q20sRs
Denver Water and Aurora Water have imposed stage-one drought watering restrictions, but others have not.
