Professor, Department of Geography and
Fellow, Insitute of Arctic and Alpine Research
University of Colorado, Boulder
Alpine and subalpine hydrochemistry, biogeochemistry, physical-chemical interactions of the snowpack, hydrology, surface-groundwater interactions, terrestrial-aquatic interactions, snow science, atmospheric deposition, avalanche dynamics.
All degrees in Biological Sciences, with emphasis on Biogeochemistry and Hydrology
Present-2005: Professor of Geography and Fellow at the Institute of Arctic and Alpine Research, University of Colorado, Boulder.
2005-1998: Associate Professor of Geography and Fellow at the Institute of Arctic and Alpine Research, University of Colorado, Boulder.
2003-2001: Co-Associate Director of the Undergraduate Academy, University of Colorado, Boulder.
1998-1991: Assistant Professor of Geography and Research Associate II at the Institute of Arctic and Alpine Research, University of Colorado, Boulder.
1991-1987: Research assistant, teaching assistant, Department of Biological Sciences, Center for Remote Sensing and Environmental Optics, University of California, Santa Barbara.
2008: Denali Award for Recent Outstanding Recent Achievement in Mountain Geography, Mountain Geography Specialty Group (MGSG) of the American Association of Geographers
2007-2006: academic year: Faculty Fellowship, CU-Boulder.
2006: Residence Life Academic Teaching Award, CU-Boulder.
2006: National Park Service, Intermountain West Annual Award for Research to Support Park Service Resource Management by a non-federal scientist.
2004: ARCUS visiting speaker, Fairbanks and Juneau, Alaska.
2000-1999 academic year: Faculty Fellowship, CU-Boulder.
1999: Fulbright Research Fellowship, Ecuador.
1998: US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) Region VIII Outstanding Environmental Achievement Award, for community based work on ecosystem protection in the San Miguel basin.
1996: Council on Research and Creative Work (CRCW) Grant-in-Aid, CU-Boulder.
1994: Undergraduate Research Opportunities Program award, $3,900 for undergraduate research team, CU-Boulder.
1993: Undergraduate Research Opportunities Program award, $4,000 honorium for undergraduate education, CU-Boulder.
1993: Undergraduate Research Opportunities Program award, $1,500 honorium for undergraduate research, CU-Boulder.
1992: Junior Faculty Development Award, CU-Boulder.
1991: Department of Energy Global Change Distinguished Postdoctoral Fellowship (declined).
1991: $2,500 International Travel Grant from the American Geophysical Union.
1991-1988: NSF Pre-doctoral Fellowship for Minority Students.
1988: Incentives for Excellence Scholarship Prize to UC Santa Barbara through NSF in my name.
Association of American Geographers, American Association for the Advancement of Science, American Geophysical Union, American Society of Limnology and Oceanography, American Water Resources Association, Eastern Snow Conference, Ecological Society of America, International Association of Hydrologic Sciences, International Glaciological Society, Western Snow Conference.
NSF-LTER expansion project, June 21-24, 2006, Madison Wisconsin.
NWT representative to LTER coordinating committee meeting, May 22-25, 2006, Cedar Creek LTER site, Minnisota.
NSF, NEON RFP review committee, May 12, 2006, Denver Colorado.
NSF-LTER program, workshop on expanding the LTER program, Feb 8-12, 2006, Santa Barbara, CA.
CU-Boulder representative to the annual executive meeting of the Rocky Mountain Cooperative Ecosystem Study Unit (RM-CESU), Fort Collins, CO, 18 April 2006.
2005-2006 Academic year, Personnel Committee (Promotion and Tenure), College of Arts and Sciences.
Hydrologic Processes, V 20, 2006, Co-Editor, special issue on "Contribution from Glaciers and Snow Cover to Runoff from Mountains in Different Climates".
National Park Service, Science Panel, Rocky Mountain Inventory and Monitoring Network, Montana workshop, 24-27 January, 2005.
National Park Service, Science Panel, Rocky Mountain Vital Signs Selection Meeting, 10-11 May, Lakewood, Colorado.
Host and chair, LTER expansion workshop on "Climate and Ecosystem Response", 31 Jan-2 February, Boulder, CO.
NWT LTER representative, LTER coordination committee, 5-8 April, 2005, Key Largo, Florida.
Speaker and attendee, Mountain Studies Institute workshop on new research initiatives, 29-30 June, Silverton, CO.
LTER expansion workshop, 16-17 August, Boston, MA.
Host and participant, National Park Service workshop on monitoring alpine areas, Mountain Research Station, 20-22 September. I promoted this workshop with the NPS and got them to hold the workshop at the MRS to help publicize the MRS.
Host, Mountain Studies Institute workshop on setting research agendas, INSTAAR, 17 September 2005.
National Atmospheric Deposition Program (NADP), ad hoc committee on revamping NADP protocols for mountain sites. Fall 2005.
Co-Convenor, SYMPOSIUM on the Contribution from Glaciers and Snow Cover to Runoff from Mountains in Different Climates (ICSI), Foz do Igua, Brazil, 4-9 April, 2005.
Plenary chair, 4th International Conference on the Tibetian Plateau, Lhasa Tibet, August 2004.
Co-chair, LTER-NSF workshop on "Climate change and ecological impacts", 9-12 November 2004, Cape Canaveral, Florida.
Advisory Board, Mountain Studies Institute, Silverton, Colorado, 2004 to present.
Associate Editor, Biogeochemistry, 2004 to present.
Editor, Arctic, Antarctic, and Alpine Research, 2002 to 2004.
Chair, Crysophere Focus Group, American Geophysical Union, 2002 to 2004.
Planning committee, American Geophysical Union annual fall meeting, 2003 and 2004.
Contributer, LTER Decade of Synthesis planning meeting, October 2003.
Convenor and chair, workshop on Snow and Ecology, LTER All-Scientists Meeting, Seattle WA, September 2003.
Convenor and chair, General Cryosphere Session, American Geophysical Union annual meeting, San Francisco, CA, December 2003.
Executive Committee, Western Snow Conference, 2003 to present.
Chair, Special Session on Ice Cores, Association of American Geographers annual meeting, New Orleans, March 2003.
Co-chair, standing committee on Long-term Hydrological Observatories, CUAHSI, 2002.
Invited participant, NEON (National Ecological Observing Network) workshop on designing core measurements and facilities, Boulder, CO, June 3,4 2002
Invited Participant, WCRP workshop on measuring solid precipitation, Fairbanks, Alaska, 9-15 June, 2002.
Webmaster, Western Snow Conference, 2002-1996.
Co-Convenor, special session on Snow-Climate Interactions, American Geophysical Union annual meeting, San Francisco, CA, December 2002.
Co-Convenor, special session on Long-Term Hydrological Observatories, American Geophysical Union annual meeting, San Francisco, CA, December 2001.
Chair, Standing committee on Long-term Hydrological Observatories, Consortium of Universities for the Advancement of Hydrologic Sciences (CUAHSI), 2001.
Co-Convenor, special session on Mountain Ecosystems, American Geophysical Union annual meeting, San Francisco, CA, December 2000.
Invited participant, IGBP Mountain Initiative Workshop for Latin America, March 8-10, 2000, Papallacta, Ecuador.
Invited participant, Army Research Office Workshop on Snow and Ice, February 15-17, 2000, Hanover, NH.
Invited participant, Campos de Heilo (Patagonia Ice Fields) Science Advisory Task Force, Punta Arenas, Chile, 23-30 March, 2000.
Executive Board, Snow Vegetation Interactions Working Group, International Association of Hydrological Sciences, April 2000.
Co-convenor, Interactions between the Cryosphere, Climate and Greenhouse Gases, 22nd IUGG General Assembly, 19-30 July, 1999, Birmingham, UK.
SIP representative, first annual planning meeting, American Geophysical Union, Denver, CO 25-26 June, 1999.
Invited Speaker, Boulder Creek Watershed Forum, 24 June 1998.
Session chair, Western Snow Conference annual meeting, Snow Bird, Utah, 21 April, 1998.
Mail reviewer, NSF EPSCoR program, 3 February, 1998.
Associate Editor, Water Resources Research, 1998 to present.
Co-convenor, Interactions between the Cryosphere, Climate and Greenhouse Gases, 22nd IUGG General Assembly, 19-30 July, 1999, Birmingham, UK.
Convenor, special session on Terrestrial-Aquatic Linkages in Seasonally Snow-Covered Catchments, American Geophysical Union annual meeting, San Francisco, CA, December 1997.
Member, White House committee on National Site Index for Nitrogen Deposition, 1997 to 1999.
Invited speaker, Teaching with Technology Conference, Colorado School of Mines, Golden, Colorado, 30 July, 1997.
Invited speaker, US Army Waterways Experiment Station, Vicksburg, Mississippi, 21 July, 1997.
Invited Speaker, Chinese Ecological Research Network (CERN), Beijing, China, 6 June 1997.
Invited Speaker, AGU Spring Meeting, Baltimore, Maryland, 30 May 1997.
Invited Speaker, National Watershed Coalition, Reno, NV, 19 May 1997.
Panel member, NSF/EPA Partnership: Water and Watersheds, 6-9 May 1997.
Invited Speaker, CU Boulder Global Change and Environmental Quality Program, Boulder, CO, 28 April 1997.
Member, Snow, Ice, and Permafrost Committee, American Geophysical Union, 1996 to present.
US representative, International Commission on Water Quality, 1996 to present.
Roving judge, Student Presentation Award in Hydrology, Annual AGU meeting, San Francisco, CA, Dec 15-17, 1996.
Convenor, workshop on air quality in the Rocky Mountains and catchment response, with EPA, USGS, USFS, and NPS, November 1996 at Denver, CO.
Chair, panel on Educational Models for Interdisciplinary Studies of High-Altitude Mountain Science, AAAS and Aga Khan Foundation, Biskek, Kirghizia, 1996.
Invited speaker, Chapman Conference on Nitrogen Cycling in Forested Catchments, American Geophysical Union, Bend, OR, September 1996.
Invited speaker, panel on Educational Models for Interdisciplinary Studies of High-Altitude Mountain Science, AAAS and Aga Khan Foundation, Bishkek, Kirghizia, October 1996.
Invited speaker (6 talks), Montanas, Glaciares, y Cambios Climaticos, Escuela Politecnica Nacional, Quito, Equador, November 1996.
Panel member, NSF: Environmental Geochemistry and Biogeochemistry, 1996.
Review Committee, Fort Collins Ecological Units, Technical Assistance Visit (TAV), US Forest Service, 1996.
Roving judge, Student Presentation Award in Hydrology, Annual AGU meeting, San Francisco, CA, Dec 11-15, 1995.
Invited speaker, Swiss Committee of IGBP on "The role of the hydrologic cycle in mountain ecosystems", Zurich, Switzerland, November 16-17, 1995.
Working committee member, Mountain Research: Challenges and Directions for the 21st Century, Bishkek, Kirghizstan, October 14-18, 1996, sponsored by AAAS, 1995 and 1996.
Participant, Workshop on Future Directions in Snow and Ice Research, sponsored by Army Research Office, Bozeman, Montana, October 5-6, 1995.
Panel member, NSF/EPA Partnership Panel, Water and Watersheds, 1995.
Chair, Hubbard Brook LTER site review team, NSF Division of Environmental Biology, 1995.
Invited speaker, Ecological Society of America Annual Meeting, Snowbird, Utah, 1995.
Co-convenor, IAHS-IUGG session on Hydrology and Hydrochemistry of Seasonally Snow-Covered Catchments, Boulder, CO, 1995.
Session chair, IAHS-IUGG session on Hydrology and Hydrochemistry of Seasonally Snow-Covered Catchments, Boulder, CO, 1995.
Co-organizer, Boulder Creek Workshop on Water Quality, Boulder, CO, November 9 and 10, 1994.
Co-convenor, Mountain Hydrology session, Association of American Geographers annual meeting, San Francisco, CA, April, 1994.
Session Chair, Western Snow Conference, 1994.
Western Snow Conference Executive Committee, 1994 to 1998.
Western Snow Conference Technical Committee, 1993 and 1994.
Committee Member, Ad hoc committee on evaluation of Fort St. Vrain Power Plant application, National Park Service, 1992-1993.
Invited poster, Gordon conference on "Hydrologic/Geochemical/Biological Interactions in Forested Catchments", August, 1993.
Visiting scientist, Lanzhou Institute of Glaciology and Geocryology, Lanzhou, China, June 1992.
Invited speaker, IAHS Workshop, HW4, Snow Chemistry and Water Quality, Vienna, Austria, August, 1991.
Invited poster, Gordon conference on "Hydrologic/Geochemical/Biological Interactions in Forested Catchments", July, 1991.
Invited participant, GLEES (Glacier Lakes Ecosystem Experiments Site) workshop on snow environments research, Laramie, WY, November 1990.
Invited participant, NASA/JPL Earth Sciences Summer School, Pasadena, CA, August 1990.
Invited participant, NATO Advanced Research Workshop on Snowpack Chemistry, Maratea, Italy, July 1990.
Invited participant, California Air Resources Board (CARB) Sierra Watershed Research Discussion Group, Santa Barbara, CA, July 1990.
Invited speaker, Lanzhou Institute of Glaciology and Geocryology, Lanzhou, China, June 1990.