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Inside the Greenhouse

01.23.12

A New York Times blog post documents "Inside the Greenhouse"—a new interdisciplinary course run by CIRES Fellow Max Boykoff. Boykoff hopes the course will "inspire students to think about creative and engaging ways to translate these complex issues [climate science] for the public citizenry." To read the blog click here.

More Earthquakes in Colorado?

01.17.12

CIRES Fellow Anne Sheehan and a team of academic colleagues predict more earthquakes along the Rio Grande Rift in years to come. 9News.com talks about the scientists' study here.

Disappearing Hail

01.10.12

Photo by Kelly Mahoney, NOAA

CIRES scientist Kelly Mahoney appears on CBS Denver and 9 News explaining how the Front Range may no longer see hail by 2070. To watch Mahoney on CBS Denver click here, on 9 News click here.

Glacial Lakes Disappearing Act Caught on Film

12.30.11

CIRES graduate student Ulyana Horodyskyj's captured a glacial lake in the Himalaya losing the equivalent of 42 Olympic-size swimming pools of water overnight when she installed three cameras in the glacier walls. Horodyskyj is investigating how lakes atop of glaciers in Himalaya could contribute to the deflation of glaciers in the region. Read more about her research in BBC, LiveScience, Scientific American and the National Geographic News.

Megaquake Potential in the Himalayas

12.28.11

CIRES Fellow Roger Bilham cautions a magnitude 9 earthquake in Kashmir is a possibility based on eight years of GPS in the region. Such an earthquake could have the potential to dam the Jhelum river causing disastrous flooding, Bilham says. Read more about it in the New Scientist and the Washington Post.

Investigating the Impact of Shrinking Glaciers on Asia's water supply

12.27.11

The U.S. government has enlisted CIRES Fellow Richard Armstrong and geography professor Mark Williams to determine how disappearing Himalayan glaciers will affect water supplies to people in Afghanistan, Bangladesh, China, India, Nepal and Pakistan. Read the article in the Denver Post here.

CIRES Spotlight

CIRES researchers in video on Terpenes

Terpenes, compounds in the needles of pine trees, might be smaller than termites but they wield the power to influence the water cycle in Colorado.

In a University of Arizona video CIRES Fellow Jose Jimenez talks about the role of these molecules in cloud formation and precipitation. Currently a study, led by former CIRES Fellow Russell Monson, is being conducted in a pine forest near Manitou, Colorado to investigate how variations in the local climate affect the emission rate of these terpenes.

The video documents how the scientists—researchers from the University of Arizona, CIRES and the National Center for Atmospheric Research—are investigating the interaction between terpenes and the water cycle and explains the currently understood science about these compounds.

To watch the video click here.

CIRES 2012 Rendezvous: Call for abstracts

CIRES researchers are invited to submit their poster abstracts for the upcoming CIRES Rendezvous to be held on Tuesday, April 24th 2012. To submit your poster abstract, click here. Please note that the deadline for submissions is Monday, February 20th. This year's Rendezvous will be in the Tennis Bubble located at the Millennium Harvest House Hotel. For more information, click here. We look forward to your continued support of this fun and informative event.

Robert Sievers on Developing an Inhalable Vaccine for Measles

The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation's Grand Challenges in Global Health has unrolled a video highlighting the work of CIRES Fellow Robert Sievers and his team to create a dried powder inhalant vaccine for measles. It would pave the way toward needle-free immunization in the developing world and is currently in Phase I clinical trials. Watch the video.

CIRES Welcomes New Visiting Fellows

CIRES welcomes 12 Visiting Fellows for the 2011-12 year. These visiting sabbatical and post-doctoral researchers will contribute to CIRES cutting-edge research in the environmental sciences. Every year since 1967, CIRES awards several competitive NOAA-sponsored visiting fellowships to researchers seeking opportunities for rewarding collaborations in a world-class research setting. Click here for more information about this year’s or previous fellows’ research expertise and the Visiting Fellow Program.

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