Research Group News:
Feb - press release on recent paper by PhD student Adam Wlostowski:
Jan - new publication: Wlostowski, AN, MN Gooseff, DM McKnight, and WB Lyons. 2018. Transit times and rapid chemical equilibrium explain chemostasis in glacial meltwater streams in the McMurdo Dry Valleys, Antarctica. Geophysical Research Letters, 45 (24): 13,322 DOI: 10.1029/2018GL080369  [link]

Dec - media article on CU research in Antarctica mentioning several folks from CU including Dr. Gooseff  [link]

Sep - new publication: Levy, JS, AG Fountain, MK Obryk, J Telling, C Glennie, R Pettersson, M Gooseff, and DJ Van Horn. 2018. Decadal topographic change in the McMurdo Dry Valleys of Antarctica: Thermokarst subsidence, glacier thinning, and transfer of water storage from the cryosphere to the hydrosphere. Geomorphology, 323: 80-97. [link]

Apr - Congratulations to Patrick Hendrickson for successfully defending his MS thesis Ecological Characterization of the Kuparuk Aufeis Field, North Slope Alaska.

Apr - media article on our Aufeis (river icing) project in Alaska, in collaboration with Alex Huryn at Univ of Alabama, Ken Tape at Univ of Alaska Fairbanks, and the USGS Office of Groundwater. Great stuff!  [link]

Feb - new publication: Wlostowski, AN, MN Gooseff, and BJ Adams. 2018. Soil moisture controls the thermal habitat of active layer soils in the McMurdo Dry Valleys, Antarctica. Journal of Geophysical Research Biogeosciences, 123(1): 46-59. [link]

Jan - new publication: Webb, RW, SR Faccnacht, and MN Gooseff. 2018. Hydrologic flow path development varies by aspect during spring snowmelt in complex subalpine terrain. The Cryosphere, 12: 287-300. [link]

Dec - new publication: Pai, H, HF Malenda, MA Briggs, K Singha, R Gonzalez-Pinzon, MN Gooseff, SW Tyler, and AirCTEMPS Team. 2017. Potential for small unmanned aircraft systems for identifying groundwater-surface water exchange in a meandering river reach, Geophysical Research Letters, 44(23): 11,868-11,877. [link]

Aug - new publication: Gooseff, MN, JE Barrett, BA Adams, PT Doran, AG Fountain, WB Lyons, DM McKnight, JC Priscu, ER Sokol, C Takacs-Vesbach, ML Vandegehuchte, RA Virginia, and DH Wall. 2017. Decadal ecosystem response to an anomalous melt season in a polar desert in Antarctica. Nature Ecology & Evolution, doi:10.1038/s41559-017-0253-0.  [link] and [behind the paper blog]
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Classes taught by Dr. Gooseff:
  • Physical Hydrology
  • Introduction to Civil Engineering
  • Fluid Mechanics
  • Open Channel Hydraulics
  • Ecological Engineering
  • Surface Water Quality Modeling
  • Initiating your Academic Career
What happens when permafrost thaws? 
Using scientific UAVs for studying streams:
“Thus if the quantity of carbonic acid [CO2 in the air] increases in geometric progression, the augmentation of the temperature will increase in arithmetic progression.” [link]
Svante Arrhenius, 1896
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