Two Colorado Water Center initiatives aim to expand and diversify the water workforce by encouraging students from historically underrepresented backgrounds to pursue water careers.
Hacking transportation infrastructure helps researchers anticipate dangerous cyber-attacks and design resistant systems.
The science of monitoring and forecasting floods is tricky, scientists say. Every step of the process has uncertainty, from on-the-ground measurements to complex computer models. (San Francisco Chronicle)
What is a poison? Do all poisons act in the same way? Does the amount of the poison matter in terms of its toxicity? CBE Professor Brad Reisfeld wrote a Conversation piece about how poisons affect us.
People have used poisons throughout history for a variety of purposes: to hunt animals for food, to treat diseases and to achieve nefarious ends like murder and assassination.
The CSU Drone Center will introduce high school students and teachers from across Colorado to the exciting career potential of unmanned aircraft, thanks to a $340,000 award from the FAA.
Hydro opened in January at CSU Spur in Denver, including engineering research labs like the Hydro Water TAP and the CSU Biomanufacturing and Biotechnology Laboratory.
The CoCoRaHS rain and snow observation network, began at CSU, has 20,000 members across the country. Minnesota leads in adding new volunteers. (Minneapolis Star Tribune)
“The next week is looking really promising in terms of snowfall for the high elevations. It’s likely to improve runoff forecasts even from where they are now for the most part,” said Peter Goble, a climatologist for the Colorado Climate Center. (Grand Junction Daily Sentinel)
Here are some of the records Cyclone Freddy has already (or may have) broken according to experts at Colorado State University’s Cooperative Institute for Research in the Atmosphere. (Forbes)