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Dr. Carolyn Crow is part of one of the teams selected to analyze never opened lunar samples from the Apollo missions to the Moon. She is a co-principal investigator on the team led by Jessica Barns at the University of Arizona that focuses on hydrogen-bearing minerals in lunar soil. Here...

Assistant Professor Leilani Arthurs and colleagues from two other institutions were awarded a $3 million NSF-IUSE grant: Collaborative Research: IUSE: EHR: Promoting Research-based Instructional Methods for Enhancing and Reforming STEM Education (PRIMERS). The goal of the project is to move undergraduate science, technology, engineering, and mathematics instructors towards more learner-centered...

Professors Irina Overeem and Giff Miller and their colleagues just published a commentary in Future Earth on impacts of Arctic warming . Highlights can be found in an NSIDC press release: https://nsidc.org/news/newsroom/arctic-change-has-widespread-impacts . An additional article is at: Eos: Modeling the melting permafrost

CU press: https://www.colorado.edu/today/2019/02/11/sand-glacial-melt-could-be-greenlands-economic-salvation Nature Sustainability: https://www.nature.com/articles/s41893-018-0218-6 New York Times: https://www.nytimes.com/reuters/2019/02/11/world/europe/11reuters-climatechange-greenland.html Reuters: https://www.reuters.com/article/us-climatechange-greenland/as-ice-melts-greenland-could-become-big-sand-exporter-study-idUSKCN1Q01YG

The research of Assistant Professor Mike Willis has recently been recognized in several media outlets. CIRES - Greenland Ice Melting Four Times Faster Than in 2003 PNAS - Accelerating changes in ice mass within Greenland, and the ice sheet’s sensitivity to atmospheric forcing BBC - Satellites saw rapid Greenland ice...