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CU-Boulder Researchers Investigate Warming Climate’s Threat to Western Water
...usable water in the western United States comes from snowmelt runoff. Unfortunately, warming temperatures have resulted in less snow and shorter winters in recent years. In fact, the 2012 snowpack...
CU-Boulder Scientists to Provide Climate Change-focused Programs at the Rifle Library in August
...the American Geophysical Union and INSTAAR, and his research focuses on snow hydrology and ecology of mountain areas. His presentation on Aug. 9 will center on threats to snow and...
CU Museum of Natural History Invites Families to Study the Cold Facts of Climate Science
...snow, from falling flakes to dangerous avalanches. Explore how climate change is affecting snow through hands-on activities. Ski, sled, or skate on in.” As a conclusion to the month-long...
NASA Administrator Charles Bolden to Visit CU-Boulder April 18
...the arid West, for example, rely on up-to-date snowpack conditions, since melting snow feeds thirsty cities and crops. In 2013, CU-Boulder led a NASA airborne science campaign staged out...
We are Water
With support from rural communities and their libraries We are Water creates a place to meet and share stories about water, and explore and learn about water together. We are...
Learning to be lawyers one ditch at a time
...scarce resource in the valley. As the snow from the Sangre de Cristo and the San Juan mountains begins to melt, runoff is caught in acequias, which are gravity-fed irrigation...
Free Online Course from CU-Boulder Tackles Water Issues in the American West
...Boulder will answer that question and take students on a virtual journey, following water as it makes its way from snow-capped peaks to the taps in the drier valleys across...
New Report Highlights How Climate Change May Affect Water in Colorado
...and other changes (dust on snow) mean that snowpack is melting earlier, on average, by one to four weeks compared with 30 years ago. This creates a strain for farmers...
CU-Boulder Video Gets Emmy Nod
...research conducted by Mark Williams, CU-Boulder professor of geography and fellow at the Institute of Arctic and Alpine Research. Williams, an expert in snow hydrology and mountain ecology, studies the...
‘Chasing Ice’ Filmmaker to Discuss His Gripping Glacial Photography and Debut Unseen Footage at Macky Auditorium April 1
...Learn More About Climate, an initiative that seeks to extend CU-Boulder climate science expertise to educators, policymakers and citizens. Additional sponsors include CIRES, the National Snow and Ice Data Center,...