Spring 2009
Tackling A Climate Model Mystery
Imagine a climate model as a black box. You put something in, you get something out. But what happens when the output is completely unexpected? Learn how Tom Chase and Peter Lawrence spot a snag in an important climate model.
Winter 2009
Quake Cruise
What's shaking under the sea? Join Teacher-at-Sea Dan Tomlin and Geophysicist Anne Sheehan on the QuakeCruise as they travel to the Southern Ocean near New Zealand to install thirty earthquake-monitoring instruments on the ocean floor.
Winter 2009
South Pole Traverse
Ted Scambos is traversing Antarctica to investigate variations in climate and snow accumulation. He and his fellow scientists will look for connections between air and ocean temperatures, atmospheric circulation patterns, and snow chemistry. Read more in the online expedition diary.
Fall 2008
Seismometers Spy Under the Rockies
Over the last year, nearly 60 earthquake recording instruments have been installed throughout Colorado as part of a national experiment to learn more about the structure of the Earth beneath North America. How do they do it? Check it out!
Fall 2008
Tracking Earth's Most Abundant Greenhouse Gas
Fifty years ago scientists began measuring carbon dioxide continuously on top of Hawaii's Mauna Loa. Last year they set up the first real-time experiments there to track Earth's most abundant, and arguably most important, heat-trapping gas: water vapor.
Summer 2008
Thawing Alaska
Alaska's northern coastline is eroding at rates as high as 30 meters per year. That's a whole football field in length! CIRES researcher Cam Wobus and his colleagues at CU and the USGS photographed the rapid erosion this summer.
