The U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) Office of Science Graduate Student Research (SCGSR) Program has funded over 300 graduate awardees, including Christina McCluskey of Colorado State University.
The Tropical Meteorology Project released its preliminary forecast for the upcoming season earlier this month.
Early results of a program to foster the careers of women entering the geosciences demonstrate the effectiveness of several specific factors.
Colorado State University’s Energy Institute, in collaboration with two corporations -- Cummins Inc. and Woodward Inc. -- have landed a $1.2-million grant from the U.S. Department of Energy to develop medium, heavy-duty and on-road natural gas engines for the bigger trucks.
By most measures, portions of the American southwest in the Colorado River Basin are in their 18th year of drought. It’s the longest period of sustained dry and warm weather since consistent records have been kept.
Photovoltaics (PV) using the thin-film semiconductor cadmium telluride (CdTe) have been commercialized at the gigawatts (GW)-per-year scale, with 17.5 GWs installed globally.
Researchers have demonstrated nuclear fusion on a micro scale in a lab with record-breaking efficiency in generating neutrons—subatomic particles which have no charge. Their results are published in the journal Nature Communications.
As of last fall, Chiu has been an associate professor in the Department of Atmospheric Science, where her research group investigates remote sensing, radiative transfer, and the interactions of clouds, aerosols, precipitations, and radiation.
The atmosphere in our warmer world contains more moisture, and that's producing storms that drop more rain, said Scott Denning, a professor of atmospheric science.
This winter's snowfall in the mountains that feed the Colorado has been far short of average overall but varies widely.