December 9, 2024
To our graduates, you are all impressive. We are proud of your accomplishments and excited to see what the future holds for each of you. Congratulations also to our 2024 Fall student award winners: Lilly Naimie was awarded the Dietrich Scholarship, funded each year by Fort Collins-based Air Resource Specialists, Inc. (ARS) to recognize an Atmospheric Science graduate student who has excelled in the study and research of air quality.…
November 22, 2024
Congratulations to students Nick Mesa, Olivia Sablan, Tom Juliano and Kat Humphreys for all winning awards at the Graduate School Showcase. We're proud of each and every presenter for practicing sharing your research with a broad audience. “Advancing knowledge in your field as a researcher, creating business solutions for a better world, or enriching the world with your creativity is one of the most important responsibilities our graduate students hold,”…
November 7, 2024
Senior Research Scientist (Emeritus) Dr. Paul DeMott has been named a Fellow of the American Association for Aerosol Research (AAAR). As can be reviewed on the AAAR website, the AAAR Board of Directors established the category of Fellow to honor significant contributions by individuals to the discipline of aerosol science and technology, and service to AAAR. AAAR Fellows are expected to actively promote the field of aerosol science and technology…
November 4, 2024
The Walter Scott, Jr. College of Engineering at Colorado State University announces a College-wide search for six new faculty members who use artificial intelligence (AI) as a key component of their research programs and who aspire to develop innovative AI educational programs. The Department of Atmospheric Science, a world leader in research on weather, climate, atmospheric chemistry, and remote sensing, seeks a faculty member whose research focuses on designing, building, and using…
October 28, 2024
James Larson is the first author on a new Nature paper titled "Signature of the western boundary currents in local climate variability." Larson conducted the research as a master's student at Colorado State University, and he is currently an Atmospheric Science doctoral student in the Walter Scott, Jr. College of Engineering. “The western boundary currents are the most dynamic, the fastest moving,” said Larson, “They have these giant swirling eddies…
October 1, 2024
Associate Professor Kristen Rasmussen led the VIII Convection Permitting Climate Modeling Workshop at Colorado State University in early September 2024. Participants joined from as far as Asia, Australia, South America, and Africa. The NSF National Center for Atmospheric Research and GEWEX jointly hosted the workshop with a theme of bridging the weather and climate interface from local to global scales. On one of the afternoons, participants went on an excursion…
