Week 1

Sunday June 15th

IceBreaker (6:00PM): Flock of Moons Brewing and Buen Provecho (111 Harvard Drive SE)

 

Monday June 16th

Introductions and Logistics (8:30AM)

Lecture (9:30AM): Isotope Foundations: Terminology, Fractionation, and Measurement – Zachary Sharp (UNM)

Lecture+Lab Students: Project Development and Fieldwork (12:00–6:00PM; Lunch Provided: Lab+Lecture Students)

Lecture Only Students: Center for Stable Isotopes Tour (1:30–4:30PM)

 

Tuesday June 17th

Lecture (8:30AM): Stable Isotopes in Water – Todd Dawson (UC Berkeley)

Evening Lecture (5:30–8:30PM; Dinner–Chello Grill): Stable Isotope Instrumentation – Viorel Atudorei (UNM), Chris Brodie (IsoAlba NZ), and Rick Wehr (Aerodyne)

 

Wednesday June 18th

Lecture (8:30AM): Plant Carbon in Terrestrial Ecosystems – Lucas Cernusak (James Cook University)

Afternoon Workshop (1:30–3:00PM or 3:30–5:00PM): QA/QC and Data Analysis – Laura Burkemper (UNM-CSI)

 

Thursday June 19th

Lecture (8:30AM): Nitrogen in Terrestrial Ecosystems – Jed Sparks (Cornell University)

Evening Lecture (5:30–8:00PM; Dinner–Thai House II): Animal Ecology and Physiology – Seth Newsome (UNM)

 

Friday June 20th

Lecture 1 (8:30AM): Stable Isotope Biogeochemistry of the Oceans – Lael Vetter (University of Arizona)

Lecture 2 (10:30AM): Biology of the Oceans – Brian Popp (University of Hawaii)

 

Saturday June 21st

Lecture 1 (8:30AM): Isotopic Incorporation – Thure Cerling (University of Utah)

Lecture 2 (10:30AM): Animal Paleoecology – Paul Koch (UC Santa Cruz)

Group Project Presentations (2:30–4:30PM)

Dinner (6:00PM; La Fonda del Bosque)

 

Sunday June 22nd

Rest Day in Sandia Mountains (Lunch Provided): morning hikes/bikes and afternoon picnic (Cienega Canyon Picnic Ground)

 

Week 2

Monday June 23rd

Lecture 1 (8:30AM): The Global Carbon Cycle – Dan Breecker (University of Texas at Austin)

Lecture 2 (10:30AM): Paleoclimate Proxies – Soumaya Belmecheri (University of Arizona)

Lecture+Lab Students: Project Development and Fieldwork (12:00–6:00PM; Lunch Provided: Lab+Lecture Students)

Lecture Only Students: Lab Work (1:30–5:00PM)

 

Tuesday June 24th

Lecture 1 (8:30AM): Terrestrial Carbonates and Clumped Isotopes – Katie Snell (University of Colorado Boulder)

Lecture 2 (10:30AM): Triple Oxygen Isotopes – Jordan Wostbrock (Yale University)

Afternoon Workshops: Running a Lab (Atudorei/Brodie; 2:00PM) + Stable Isotope Mixing Models (Shipley; 4:00PM)

Evening Lecture (5:30–8:00PM; Dinner–M'Tucci's): Isotopes in Forensics – Christy Mancuso (Thermo Scientific)

 

Wednesday June 25th

Lecture 1 (8:30AM): Isotopic Studies in Four Dimensions: People and Animals in the Past – Tamsin O'Connell (University of Cambridge)

Lecture 2 (10:30AM): Amino Acid Isotope Analysis – Seth Newsome (UNM)

Afternoon Workshops: Box Models (Breecker; 2:00PM) + IsoBank (Shipley; 4:00PM)

 

Thursday June 26th

Lecture 1 (8:30AM): Microbial Isotope Ecology – Sebastian Kopf (University of Colorado Boulder)

Lecture 2 (10:30AM): Oxygen Isotopes in Phosphates – Ruth Blake (Yale University)

Fourth of July Barbecue (1:00PM): PAIS Plaza

 

Friday June 27th

Lecture (8:30AM): Molecular Isotopic Analysis – Pratigya Polissar (UC Santa Cruz)

Project Presentation Preparation (12:00–3:00PM; Lunch–Los Victors)

Group Project Presentations (3:00–5:30PM)

Graduation Dinner (6:00PM): Hodgin Hall

After Party (9:00PM): Flock of Moons Brewing Company