Abnormally warm sea temperatures are raising the risks for hurricanes, while the central and southeastern U.S. face flooding, and parts of the West are forecast to see heightened wildfire activity (Discover Magazine).
CSU’s Graduate Student Council selected Justin Whitaker as the 2020 Spring Volunteer of the Month, an honor bestowed once a semester.
The 2020 hurricane season will be busier than normal, with 16 named storms predicted, according to scientists at Colorado State University (Miami Herald).
The Tropical Meteorology Project team is predicting 16 named storms during the Atlantic hurricane season, which runs from June 1 to Nov. 30.
In the era of COVID-19, Billy Barr suggests participating in some citizen science, like a project called CoCoRaHS that tracks rainfall across the country (NPR).
CSU Atmospheric Science Professor Scott Denning, on Semester at Sea this spring, helped students learn an important lesson about resilience.
Researchers at the Cooperative Institute for Research in the Atmosphere are hot on the trail in developing tools to find out if the virus responds to seasonal- and weather-related factors.
The COVID-19 pandemic is very similar to hurricane season in some ways. Even if improvement happens, the fallout from COVID-19 in the healthcare, first responder, economic and emergency management communities will remain for hurricane season (Forbes).
Researchers at the Colorado Climate Center at CSU are still hard at work maintaining a 130-year weather record in Fort Collins (Colorado Public Radio).
This past fall CSU researcher Jessie Creamean was delighted to spend nine weeks aboard a vessel that had been deliberately frozen into an ice cap near the top of the world (Smithsonian).