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Whizzing along the I-70 corridor into the Rocky Mountains, it's hard not to notice widespread patches of dry, dead, red trees dispersed throughout the steep green hillsides. Whether they are ponderosa pines or lodgepole pines, many of these trees

The National Science Foundation has awarded a $12 million grant to a CU-Boulder-led team to explore ways to maximize the benefits of natural gas development while minimizing negative impacts on ecosystems and communities.

Michael Brown (Geog, '90) will be honored with the CU-Boulder Alumni Associations prestigious George Norlin Award, which recognizes outstanding alumni who have demonstrated a commitment to excellence in their chosen field of endeavor and a devotion

Excited as she was about being at CU-Boulder, Melanie Ferraro’s freshman year got off to a rocky start.Ferraro was eventually able to find her footing, however, in a class she was required to take as a Norlin Scholarship recipient, called

Where does our water come from and how does climate change affect its future availability? In the arid West, mountain snowpack holds the answers to these and other questions.Mark Williams, professor of geography and fellow at the Institute of Arctic

A new University of Colorado Boulder-led study that ties forest "greenness" in the western United States to fluctuating year-to-year snowpack indicates mid-elevation mountain ecosystems are most sensitive to rising temperatures and changes in

Adam Williams has won a Doctoral Dissertation Research Improvement grant from the National Science Foundation for $16,000. Adam's research project - titled "Informal Recycling as a Livelihood Strategy Among Recent Rural-Urban Migrants" - explores

Galen received a GIS Colorado Discretionary Scholarship ($750) to support his Ph.D research.

Ken Foote talks about his research with CU Connections.In Western civilization, memorials honoring soldiers and heroes have been traced to Roman and Greek times, and the tradition remains relevant today. But in the past 20 to 30 years, communities

Monica has been awarded a Doctoral Dissertation Research Improvement Grant from the National Science Foundation