April 24, 2025
Congratulations to CSU atmospheric science alum Chris Slocum for receiving the David Johnson award from NOAA, NESDIS for your research as a young scientist having very significant importance on the understanding and use of satellite data by forecasters. Slocum's graduate adviser was Emeritus Professor Wayne Schubert. "I see the award as a testament to the foundation that the ATS and Wayne provided, the hill's culture of excellence, and the support…
April 22, 2025
CSU Vice President for Inclusive Excellence Kauline Cipriani announced that our Associate Department Head and Professor Emily Fischer was awarded the 2025 CSU Inclusive Excellence Award for faculty. This award recognizes faculty and staff who support a culture of inclusive excellence and exemplify Colorado State University’s Principles of Community. Fischer’s selection reflects that she goes above and beyond the standard expectations for employees with similar responsibilities in this space. Cipriani…
April 14, 2025
The newest member of CSU’s Department of Atmospheric Science has visited 31 of the 63 national parks in the United States. On her road trip from California to start her new position here, Dien Wu checked several more parks off her list. Wu’s appreciation for nature fuels her research and teaching interests, especially with a rapidly changing climate. “As an atmospheric scientist, I have always been intrigued by complex land-atmosphere interactions,”…
April 10, 2025
For generations, sailors around the globe have reported a mysterious phenomenon: Vast areas of the ocean glow steadily at night, sometimes for months on end. The light is bright enough to read by and is oddly similar to the green and white aura cast by glow-in-the dark stars that have decorated children’s rooms. Stretching over ocean space as broad as 40,000 square miles, the light can, at times, even be…
April 8, 2025
Colorado State University hurricane researchers are predicting an above-average Atlantic hurricane season in their initial 2025 forecast. CSU’s Tropical Cyclones, Radar, Atmospheric Modeling, and Software (TC-RAMS) Team within the Department of Atmospheric Science cites above- average subtropical eastern Atlantic Ocean and Caribbean Sea surface temperatures as a primary factor for their prediction of nine total hurricanes this year. When waters in the eastern subtropical Atlantic are much warmer than normal in the spring, it…
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u3DIKAOqlvc&t=1s When Colorado State University researcher Jessie Creamean first sent her GoPro down the five-foot hole through Arctic ice, she didn’t know if it would make it back up. At the beginning of the seven-week expedition, the water was blue and clear, and the GoPro returned intact from its trip . Creamean kept sending the GoPro down holes left from collecting ice cores throughout the expedition. At the end as…
