A Flood of Weather Watchers Joining Volunteer Group During Pandemic
CoCoRaHS is a nonprofit, community-based group of volunteers who work together to measure and map precipitation, including rain, hail and snow. (Westword)
CoCoRaHS is a nonprofit, community-based group of volunteers who work together to measure and map precipitation, including rain, hail and snow. (Westword)
Djibril Diol graduated from Colorado State University with a degree in civil engineering and was working for the construction and engineering firm Kiewit. (NBC News)
“2020 was a doozy of a year,” said Peter Goble, climate specialist at the Colorado Climate Center. “And we just continue to fall farther and farther behind.” (Colorado Sun)
CSU’s John Volckens agreed that “double masking” is better than one because of the quality of masks that most of the public is wearing. (Salon)
“It doesn’t matter how good the filter is if you don’t have a good fit,” says CSU’s John Volckens, who led an intensive testing effort to document the filtration efficiencies for an array of materials. (National Geographic)
“My car got really dinged up the second year that I was here,” says Sam Childs, a researcher at Colorado State University. After that, “I decided I’d like to take a look at hail.” (Discover)
Silicon photonics has been proving its worth in telco and communications but there is a much brighter opportunity photonics-based computing. (Next Platform)
New group of mom scientists, including CSU researchers Melissa Burt and Emily Fischer, are launching “Science Moms”, a $10 million educational campaign to engage other mothers. (Washington Post)
The campaign, called “Science Moms,” will put climate scientists who are mothers in the living rooms of families across the country so they can speak to parents like them. (Los Angeles Times)
Since about 2000, droughts have been happening more frequently, which doesn’t allow for as much time for recovery—a trend that the Colorado Climate Center has been watching closely. (5280 Magazine)