Atmospheric and Oceanic Sciences
- The rapidly growing wind energy industry may be challenged by changes in locations of wind resources due to climate change.
- The cross-campus Grand Challenge initiative this week announced the selection of three new additions to the Grand Challenge portfolio starting this fall.
- CU «Ƶ program helps underserved and underrepresented students in the STEM fields gain valuable research experience for graduate school.
- Incorporating wind energy into today’s electrical grid raises a host of questions about wind forecasting, wind-turbine siting, wind-turbine design in hurricane zones; CU «Ƶ lab is investigating these and other questions.
- Collectively, The Galápagos presents case studies illustrating the Galápagos Archipelago as a dynamic natural laboratory for the earth sciences. This book would be of special interest to a multidisciplinary audience in earth sciences, including petrologists, volcanologists, geochronologists, geochemists, and geobiologists.
- The newly completed Sustainability, Energy and Environment Complex “establishes CU-«Ƶ as the epicenter for environmental sciences and geosciences research nationally and perhaps worldwide,” says Provost Russ Moore. The center was officially dedicated this month.