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Dr. Carol Kearns and Dr. Diana Oliveras

Aug. 19, 2015

Since 2001, Dr. Kearns and Dr. Oliveras have been conducting surveys of bees in Boulder County, and they are still going strong. In 15 years, they have: identified differences in bee populations in remote versus urban environments of Boulder County, identifying seven quantitative environmental variables relating to urbanization; conducted a...

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Michael Kodas, Environmental Journalist

Aug. 19, 2015

Theft, assault, sabotage and a suspicious death-it's not a description you'd expect to hear about Mt. Everest. It certainly wasn't what Michael Kodas had imagined when he went there as part of an expedition to write about a husband and wife who had climbed the world's highest peak 15 times...

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Elizabeth "Bets" McNie, PhD

Aug. 19, 2015

CU Environmental Center staff member Taylor Cannon interviewed Dr. McNie about her life, career and passions for this issue of the Monthly Newsletter. Dr. McNie is a Research Scientist with the Cooperative Institute for Research in Environmental Sciences and the Western Water Assessment at the University of Colorado at Boulder,...