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)
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)
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)
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)
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)
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)
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)
“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)
Efforts to diversify the geosciences must evolve from transactional to transformational, emphasizing the inclusion of and equity for individuals over the benefits they bring to institutions. (EOS)
CSU researcher Christian L’Orange said there’s nothing inherent in the aerosol transmission of COVID-19 that warrants the change. (Fort Collins Coloradoan)