Cloud seeding might not be as promising as drought-troubled states hope
On mountain peaks scattered across Colorado, machines are set up to fire chemicals into the clouds in attempts to generate snow.
Tag: "Department of Atmospheric Science"
A growing force in the climate movement: Moms
“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)
Go go GOES! CIRA celebrates latest launch
CIRA staff showed up in force to watch the launch of the latest round of GOES satellites on Tuesday.
Colorado Is Still Working Its Way Out Of The Drought
Becky Bolinger, Assistant State Climatologist with the Colorado Climate Center said the drought situation varies around the state, but we are overall much drier than we should be. (CBS 4 Denver)
New climate normals show drier, hotter Southwest Colorado
“In Southwest Colorado, (there has) certainly been a drying trend in recent years,” said Russ Schumacher, an atmospheric scientist with Colorado State University and the Colorado state climatologist. (Durango Herald)
Dust Is a Growing Problem. What Role Does Farmland Play?
With a growing set of tools, scientists are digging into questions about the links between modern agriculture, drought, and rising incidents of dust storms and respiratory illness. (Civil Eats)
SpaceX launches ‘small but mighty’ weather satellite sensor led by Colorado State University
Not long after the first TEMPEST-D completed a successful three-year mission, an identical tiny satellite sensor developed by researchers at Colorado State University and NASA’s JPL is back in orbit.
Jeff Collett named technical editor-in-chief of Journal of the Air & Waste Management Association
Collett will edit one of the oldest peer-reviewed journals covering the fields of air quality and waste management.
Data may be Colorado’s best bet to mitigate increasing wildfire risk on the Front Range
“It’s made me wonder if maybe we’ve been a little bit lucky that we haven’t had more of these brush fire incidents closer to urban centers before.” (Colorado Sun)
2021’s deadliest, coldest, most expensive U.S. disasters, by the numbers
“2021 is another example of warmer extremes becoming increasingly frequent,” said Becky Bolinger, a climatologist based at Colorado State University. (PBS Newshour)