Cole is a master’s student in the Department of Geology and a research assistant at INSTAAR advised by Dr. Suzanne Anderson. He is investigating the organic carbon stored in floodplain surface units of the Canning River in Alaska. His project asks how surface age and vegetation community relate to the amount of carbon stored within the soils of a fluvial surface. He is interested in applying geochemistry, fluvial geomorphology, and plant ecology to address environmental questions. Cole graduated from William & Mary in 2022 with a B.S. in geology before beginning his M.S. at CU Boulder. There he completed an honors thesis evaluating honey's effectiveness as a bioindicator for air pollution from coal-fired power plants.
Labs & Groups
- Advanced Laser Technology for Atmospheric Research (Fried)
- Amino Acid Geochronology (Miller)
- AMS Radiocarbon Preparation & Research (Lehman)
- Coastal Oceanography Modeling (Moriarty)
- Core Processing & Sedimentology (Roth & Anderson)
- Cryosphere and Surface Processes (Overeem et al.)
- Diatoms (Spaulding)
- Ecohydrology (Barnard)
- Hydroecology Science & Engineering (Gooseff) ↪︎
- ICP-MS Trace Metals (Marchitto)
- Micropaleontology (Jennings)
- Mountain Hydrology (Molotch, Musselman, & Rittger)
- Mountain Limnology Lab (Oleksy) ↪︎
- Ocean Biogeochemistry (Lovenduski)
- Organic Geochemistry (Sepúlveda)
- Organic Matter Spectroscopy (McKnight)
- Polar & Paleoclimate Modeling (Jahn)
- Stable Isotope Lab
- Suding Lab - plant community ecology ↪︎
- Taylor Lab - evolutionary biology & genetics of birds ↪︎
Programs
- Center for the Geochemical Analysis of the Global Environment (GAGE)
- Community Surface Dynamics Modeling System (CSDMS)
- Consortium for Capacity Building (CCB)
- DFO - Flood Observatory
- Dynamic Water critical zone project
- McMurdo Dry Valleys Long-Term Ecological Research (MCM LTER)
- Mountain Research Station (MRS)
- Niwot Ridge Long-Term Ecological Research (NWT LTER)