Aircraft campaign to clarify chemistry of wildfire smoke
Throughout late July and August, a multi-agency, multidisciplinary team led by Colorado State University scientists will travel to Boise, Idaho, to conduct 15 to 20 smoke-observation flights.
Category: "Research"
Keck Foundation grants CSU $1 million to make and measure nanoscale spin waves
The next big advances in computer memory, digital storage and other electronics are going to come from very small places: the spins of individual electrons.
New model quantifies communities’ vulnerability to the spread of fire
The model could add to the strategic toolbox that protects lives and livelihoods from destructive fires.
Jianguo Zhao receives NSF award to investigate shape-morphing technology for robotics
Applications for such robots include search and rescue, surveillance and environmental monitoring.
New study provides guidelines for more effective waste management
A new study by Colorado State University researchers could lead to more effective landfill-based management of varied waste streams.
Brian Munsky’s groundbreaking advancements to predictive biological modeling published in PNAS
The Munsky group of the Department of Chemical and Biological Engineering and their collaborators at Vanderbilt University recently published new advances to predictive biological models for gene regulation in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.
Inside out: Household energy transition in Beijing impacts air pollution
Ellison Carter is conducting a study to learn more about the impacts of air pollution from household use of solid fuels in rural regions of Beijing, China.
Study finds U.S. oil and gas methane emissions 60 percent higher than EPA reports
The Environmental Defense Fund-led study integrates over half a decade of research by a community of scientists, including CSU researchers.
DOE to fund two projects by Department of Atmospheric Science researchers
Associate Professor Christine Chiu and Senior Research Scientist Paul DeMott have been awarded Department of Energy grants for separate projects.
Synthetic biologists get $1.7 million to engineer world’s strongest biomaterial
Synthetic biologists are attempting to manufacture sporopollenin in the lab using plants, and to control its properties using gene circuits.