Q&A: CSU expert discusses Hurricane Ida, 2021 season
A member of CSU's hurricane forecasting team weighed in on Hurricane Ida, the history of storms on the Gulf Coast and what's next for the 2021 hurricane season.
Tag: "CIRA"
What do hurricane categories mean?
“Storms that behave this way “are fairly rare,” writes CIRA's Chris Slocum. “There isn’t enough information yet to say if rapid intensification is happening more often.” (Vox)
Satellites Spot Oceans Aglow With Trillions of Organisms
A new generation of detectors let scientists identify a dozen large episodes of bioluminescence, one a hundred times larger than Manhattan — and that’s the smallest. (New York Times)
How satellites can be the first to find wildfires
The Fire Temperature RBG technique was developed at a branch of NOAA located at Colorado State University — an organization called the Cooperative Institute for Research in the Atmosphere (CIRA). (9News Denver)
Video Shows St Vincent Volcano Spewing Ash as Eruption Enters Fifth Day
Footage released on Monday by CIRA showed satellite video of the large eruption taken the day prior, showing large clouds of ash billowing from the volcano's crater. (Newsweek)
Watching Earth Burn
For 10 days in September, satellites in orbit sent tragic evidence of climate change’s destructive power. (New York Times)
Chandrasekar, James elected to National Academy of Inventors
Two CSU professors in engineering received the honor for demonstrating "a spirit of innovation in creating or facilitating outstanding inventions."
Research expenditures top $400 million, in historic first for CSU
Colorado State University’s spending on research activities reached a record $407 million for fiscal year 2020, a 2% increase over last year.
New dataset provides county-level exposure numbers for tropical cyclones, human health
A research team has created an open-source data set for epidemiological research on tropical cyclones.
Even Climate Scientists Are Freaked Out By This Year’s Wildfires
“It’s hard to not focus on the extent burned, but the nature and behavior of the fires is one of the most astonishing things,” Dakota Smith, a satellite analyst with CIRA (Buzzfeed).