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The @climate.colostate.edu supports Colorado through alarming drought conditions. With three-quarters of the state in severe drought, Colorado’s Drought Task Force is leaning on Professor Russ Schumacher for regular updates on statewide conditions.
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Lena Low won the Spring 2026 Riehl Award for an outstanding technical manuscript by a CSU Atmospheric Science student. Low conducted research on volatile organic compounds and air toxics in Northern Colorado.
Catch the latest on NASA's INCUS mission led by principal investigator Sue van den Heever, one of our University Distinguished Professors. Two of the mission’s small satellites have been assembled and tested.
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This year’s NSF GRFP recipients include current student Justin Hassel and incoming student Alyssa Vivienne Shih.
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Colorado’s Drought Task Force is leaning on Russ Schumacher, atmospheric science professor at Colorado State University, for regular updates on statewide conditions.
Yesterday, stratus clouds flowed northward along the California coast, filling in bays as it passed.
Bursts of convection occur around the exposed center of circulation within Tropical Storm Amanda.
Amanda is slowly weakening, and is forecast to become post-tropical in the following days.
Clouds swirl overhead as ice shifts in the Labrador Sea between Greenland and Canada.
It’s not every day that you get to head south to Antarctica. CSU student Chelsea Bekemeier had the privilege of doing just that for her master’s research, visiting one of the most remote places on Earth: Denman Glacier — a massive glacier that fills a canyon reaching 3,500 meters below sea level.
A bolide exploded high above New England in Earth's atmosphere on Saturday afternoon, creating a loud booming noise that was heard across the region.
The flash of the exploding meteor was detected from the GOES-19 weather satellite's GLM instrument.
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What's it like to put yourself in the path of a tornado 🌪️?
Jen Walton and Anastasia Tomanek are part of both @girlswhochase.com and the @dowfacility.bsky.social team, pursuing up-close scientific measurements of severe storms.
Read about their experiences: https://bit.ly/3QyrbVU
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Teams working on NASA’s INCUS (Investigation of Convective Updrafts) mission, the first space-based survey of the dynamics of tropical convective storms, have
Sixteen Colorado State University students and alumni were recently recognized by the National Science Foundation Graduate Research Fellowship Program, one of the nation’s prestigious fellowship progr...
