PhD student Nicholas Balascio has been awarded the J. Hoover Mackin Research Award from the Quaternary Geology and
Geomorphology Division of the Geological Society of America for his proposal to study Holocene tsunami deposits in coastal lakes of the Lofoten
Islands, Norway. The award supports outstanding Ph.D. student research in Quaternary geology and geomorphology and it will be presented to Mr.
Balascio at the Division's awards ceremony during the GSA National Meeting in Denver Colorado on October 30th.
Steve Burns has received a NOAA research grant for studies of High Resolution Speleothem records of the South American
Monsoon over the last 2000 years Read more.
Research Associate Professor Mathias Vuille and Climate Center alumnus Caspar Ammann were hosts of the ?ThinkSwiss
Climate Trail?, which formed part of ?The Wonder of Science? street festival held in Boulder Colorado on September 29th.
Read more.
A three year curriculum development and professional development program entitled "STEM Polar Connections: A three region initiative to integrate
the study of Polar Regions and activities associated with the International Polar Year (IPY) into the middle and high school curriculum" has been
funded. See the press release.
Ray Bradley, Director of the Climate System Research Center has received a three-year, $416,550 award from the
National Science Foundation for his project, titled “Volcanoes in the Arctic System: Geochronology and Climate Impacts”. See the
press release.
Ray Bradley, Distinguished Professor in the Department of Geosciences, was awarded the Hans Oeschger Medal of the European
Geosciences Union, for "his contribution to paleoclimate reconstruction from continental archives and for being instrumental
in the multi-proxy approach leading to the quantification of climate change over the last millennium". Bradley received the
award at a ceremony in Vienna, Austria on April 17th.
