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CIRES researchers sail through New England air quality study
Following pockets of polluted air in a ship might not make for a relaxing cruise. But as 34 scientists found out during the summer of 2002, it can produce useful data. For one month in late July and early August, the scientists—about a third of whom were from CIRES—sailed along the coast of New England on NOAA's largest research vessel, Ronald H. Brown, in order to track how polluted air moves into and around the region.
Cloud composition and dynamics take researchers to new heights
Members of the NOAA Climate Modeling and Diagnostics Laboratory and NOAA Aeronomy Lab take part in carefully-orchestrated study to understand cloud formation.
Rocky Mountain fieldwork yields cold mine
The Cold Land Processes Experiment synchronizes ground, air, and space studies.
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CIRES scientists join Trans-Siberian Railroad expedition
The Trans-Siberian Railroad, which stretches more than 5,000
miles across northern Asia, is a good way to roll across
Russia. It is also a good tool for measuring trace gases
that influence air chemistry over a large region. By installing
an automated gas chromatograph inside the train and riding
along for two weeks in the summer of 2001, three researchers
got the first-ever extensive set of measurements of ozone-depleting
substances in the region.
NSIDC establishes repository for Permafrost and Frozen Ground Data collections
A new Frozen Ground Data Center established within CIRES' National Snow and Ice Data Center last winter will take permafrost and frozen ground data that have been stored away in researchers' notebooks and computer files and make them available to all frozen ground researchers around the globe.
CIRES Earth science workshop open to k-12 teachers
Twenty-five elementary and high school science teachers entered a dream laboratory of forests, ponds, streams and wildlife northwest of Boulder in the summer of 2002, living and breathing Earth science.
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Introducing Konrad Steffen
Who is Konrad Steffen? In future annals of arctic science, Steffen may become one of the legends. A climatologist known as "Koni" by all at CIRES, Steffen has spent an average of seven weeks in the high Arctic every summer for the past 27 years—and is himself responsible for a large part of the instrumentation that lets the world know, hour by hour, conditions on the Greenland Ice Sheet and how they're changing.
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CIRES Center for Science and Technology Policy Research offers reassessed national flood damage estimates
State and basin damage information have been collected with new and improved national damage estimates to provide a more accurate look at flood costs in the United States. Pennsylvania and California lead the nation in flood damage, according to the new national database of historical flood damage estimates compiled by CIRES and NCAR researchers.
National Security: Public and private sector expertise mix at CIRES symposium
"Engaged citizens are the backbone of democracy," said former Senator Gary Hart addressing security specialists, scientists, administrators and policy makers at a symposium hosted by CIRES' Center for Science and Technology Policy Research . But, Hart said, the best people are staying away from government service.
CIRES collaboration uses imaging to find expansive soils
In summer 2002 Professor Alexander Goetz of CIRES, with colleagues from the Colorado School of Mines, the Colorado Geological Survey and the U.S. Geological Survey, exposed a 100-foot section of vertically layered sediments for a study of one of the worst construction hazards along the Front Range. The work was undertaken to compare and correlate a new sampling technique for identifying bentonite and other clay soils with standard core sampling methods. Bentonite and some other clay soils expand in contact with water.
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