Colorado and a Warming Planet

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James White
James White is a Professor of Geological Sciences and Environmental Studies and the Director of Institute of Arctic & Alpine Research (INSTAAR) at the University of Colorado at Boulder. He received his PhD from Columbia University in 1983. His research primarily focuses on climate change and the loss of carbon dioxide from the atmosphere through land plants in the Earth's climate. White specifically researches climate from stable hydrogen isotopes in carbon dioxide concentrations, organic material, deuterium excess, and ice cores.
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Theodore Scambos
Theodore Scambos is a Senior Research Associate for the Cooperative Institute for Environmental Sciences (CIRES) and Lead Scientist for the National Snow and Ice Data Center (NSIDC). He received his PhD from the University of Colorado in 1991 and specializes in glaciology, remote sensing of the poles, climate change effects on the cryosphere, Antarctic history, geochemistry and planetary science. He is also a member of IceTrek, a research expedition that tracked an iceberg's journey in the South Atlantic. In this 2006 study, Scambos and his team worked to determine the stages of iceberg break-up caused by global warming.
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Shari Gearheard
Shari Gearheard is a Research Scientist for the National Snow and Ice Data Center in Boulder, Colorado. Gearheard received her PhD in 2004 from the University of Colorado. She specializes in human-environment interactions and Arctic environmental change. Gearheard is currently working on an ongoing collaborative project with Inuit hunters and Elders to document Inuit knowledge of climate and environmental change.
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