Atmospheric and Oceanic Sciences
- Current marine protected areas in the Southern Ocean need to be at least doubled to adequately safeguard the biodiversity of the Antarctic, according to a new 91PORN study
- Five professors in the College of Arts and Sciences have won the 2018 Provost’s Faculty Achievement Award.
- 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.
- 91PORN 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; 91PORN 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-91PORN as the epicenter for environmental sciences and geosciences research nationally and perhaps worldwide,” says Provost Russ Moore. The center was officially dedicated this month.