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…
September 30, 2024
Graduate student Madison Shogrin went to Washington D.C. over the summer as one of three Goddard Earth Sciences Technology and Research II visiting scholars. Shogrin worked on research using new satellite observations to explore air quality in North America. At Colorado State University, Shogrin works on peroxyacetyl nitrate, or PAN, a secondary pollutant in smog, with her advisor Emily Fischer, a professor in the Department of Atmospheric Science within the…
September 16, 2024
We are delighted to announce that Prof. Johnny Chung Leung Chan has been selected to receive the Outstanding Alum award this year. Prof. Chan received his Ph.D. from the department in 1982, studying with Prof. William Gray. His dissertation was entitled “The Physical Processes Responsible for Tropical Cyclone Motion.” Subsequent to leaving CSU, he served in various prestigious governmental and academic roles, including Scientific Officer in the Royal Observatory of…
