CSU researchers predicting active 2022 Atlantic hurricane season
The CSU Tropical Meteorology Project team is predicting 19 named storms during the Atlantic hurricane season, which runs from June 1 to Nov. 30.
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‘It’s essentially 365 days a year’: The effect of year-round wildfires in Colorado
“This is something that we’re going to have to continue to be aware of, be prepared for,” Schumacher said. “You don’t have to live in the timber up in Summit County to have bad things happen.” (Denver Channel 7)
Groundwater is an incredible resource. It’s time to treat it like one.
According to Ryan Bailey, an associate professor of civil and environmental engineering at Colorado State University, thinking about groundwater is a lot like thinking about your bank accounts. (Popular Science)
Volunteers fill in gaps in state’s rainfall data
Melissa Griffin is the South Carolina state coordinator for a program designed to track weather variability, known to its members at CoCoRaHS. “It’s one of the most comprehensive citizen-science initiatives we’ve got in the U.S.” (Coastal Observer)
Land Trust hosts virtual breakfast on April 23
Jeffrey Pierce, a Professor at CSU’s Department of Atmospheric Science, and Sheryl Magzamen, an Epidemiologist with the Colorado School of Public Health, will discuss health risks related to wildfires that burn locally as well as “upwind” from the West Coast. (Estes Park Trail Gazette)
Big universities are reaching into rural Colorado, where shrinking share of high school grads go to college
Offering degrees at Adams State University in the San Luis Valley will help reach a goal of attracting more students from Hispanic communities. “This degree leads into the engineering profession. We also want to create a more diverse mechanical engineering profession,” said Christian Puttlitz. (Denver Post)
The ‘whys’ beyond the ‘what’ of the severe western U.S. drought
A new video featuring CSU atmospheric scientists opens the window on understanding the worst drought in 12 centuries, a ‘megadrought’ with no end in sight. (Yale Climate Connections)
‘Never Supposed to Happen’: North and South Poles See Unprecedented Heat
Zachary Labe, a postdoctoral researcher in atmospheric sciences at Colorado State University had his eyes on this warming trend when he got news of warming on the other side of the globe. (Vice)
Cloud seeding might not be as promising as drought-troubled states hope
Several western states have experimented with cloud seeding to try to increase precipitation, but how well does that actually work? Atmospheric scientist William Cotton explains. (Colorado Sun/The Conversation)
A growing force in the climate movement: Moms
“As scientists and moms, we want to provide other moms the climate change information and the resources they need,” said Melissa Burt, CSU atmospheric scientist and co-founder of Science Moms. (New York Times)