Colorado State University’s CIRA and Atmospheric Science researchers gathered to watch a livestream of the last of a series of groundbreaking Earth observing satellites, called GOES-U, launching successfully from the Kennedy Space Center on June 25. The launch of GOES-U comes in advance of the next-generation GeoXO satellite system scheduled to begin operating in the early 2030s.   The CSU community celebrated the accomplishments of the joint NOAA and NASA…

Congratulations to our WxChallenge team for winning first place in the national collegiate focused forecast competition! Over a ten-week period, the team competed against top student and faculty meteorologists in North America. For the competition, they forecast the maximum and minimum temperatures, precipitation, and maximum wind speeds for select U.S. cities. Photo, top left to right, Nick Mesa, Mitchell Gregg, Megan Franke, Allie Mazurek, Daniel Hueholt, Charles Davis and Jacob…

We asked our graduating students about their plans following graduation and the most important thing they learned at CSU. Here are their responses. Nico Gordillo I’m continuing towards a Ph.D. Finding your own system to enjoy working goes a long way. I-Ting Ku I will continue to work with Jeff as a post-doc. Besides all the great opportunities I had been given to learn and grow to achieve my academic…

ATS faculty, research scientists, and staff received some outstanding honors at the Walter Scott, Jr. College of Engineering all-College meeting and awards ceremony on May 6, held at the Lincoln Center in Fort Collins. Jessie Creamean was given the Walter Scott, Jr. College of Engineering Outstanding Researcher award, to recognize outstanding research accomplishments and exceptionally dedicated service to the Department or College by a researcher. Jim Hurrell was honored with the Art…

Each spring, the department awards the Herbert Riehl Memorial Award and the Maria Silva Dias Award to students nominated by their advisers for outstanding research. Andrey Marsavin and Allie Mazurek received the Riehl Award and the Silva Dias Award respectively this year. The Riehl Award, named in honor of department founder Herbert Riehl, recognizes an outstanding research paper by an M.S. student or beginning Ph.D. student. Marsavin was nominated by…

Human activity is changing the way water flows between the Earth and atmosphere in complex ways and with likely long-lasting consequences that are hard to picture. Land use change is altering where clouds form and how precipitation is distributed. Meanwhile, weather modification activities like cloud seeding are shifting how nations plan for water use in the face of climate change. These and other changes to the planet’s atmospheric water cycle…