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Western U.S. wildfires are likely to increase in the coming decades, according to a new tree-ring study led by the University of Comahue in Argentina and involving the University of Colorado at Boulder that links episodic fire outbreaks in the past five centuries with periods of warming sea surface temperatures in the North Atlantic.

Due to the ongoing weather and road conditions in Colorado, we have taken several steps to better accommodate visitors and members of the CU-Boulder campus community for Friday, Dec. 22. The university will delay opening for 2 hours on Friday. Personnel should plan to report at 10 a.m. unless otherwise notified.

University of Colorado at Boulder Chancellor G.P. “Bud” Peterson announced that due to the ongoing hazardous travel conditions in Boulder and across the Front Range, he has enacted the following measures for Thursday,Dec. 21:

CSU Release

Presidents at Colorado's major research universities - Larry Edward Penley at Colorado State University, Hank Brown at the University of Colorado and Bill Scoggins at Colorado School of Mines - are working collaboratively in ways that benefit Colorado.

That cooperation also extends to scientific discovery.

As an example, laser research at Colorado State University, the University of Colorado and the Colorado School of Mines generates tens of millions of dollars in annual research expenditures for the state.