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Department of Atmospheric Science graduate students Sean Freeman, Kristen Tucker, Jennie Bukowski, Rick Schulte, Faith Groff and Kyle Chudler represented CSU at Weather and Science Day at Coors Field.

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March 11, 2025

Prof. Maria Rugenstein awarded AMS 2025 Outstanding Early Career Award

Professor Maria Rugenstein was awarded the 2025 Outstanding Early Career Award by the American Meteorological Society Committee on Climate Variability and Change. This is one of the prestigious Scientific and Technological Activities Commission awards granted by AMS. Maria was cited “for contributions to understanding of climate sensitivity and community leadership through LongRunMIP, Green’s Function MIP, and the U.S. CLIVAR Pattern Effect Workshop.” Congratulations Professor Rugenstein on this well-deserved honor!

March 6, 2025

Women shaping CSU history

For Women’s History Month, SOURCE has created a collection of stories and images to celebrate the array of research activity led by women across Colorado State University and highlighted two faculty from our community. Kristen Rasmussen has quickly become a leader in research and education at Colorado State University since joining the Department of Atmospheric Science in 2016. Rasmussen earned her M.S. (2011) and Ph.D. (2014) from the University of…

March 5, 2025

INCUS milestone: NASA selects Firefly Aerospace Inc. as launch service for CSU-led mission

NASA has selected Firefly Aerospace Inc. of Cedar Park, Texas, to provide the launch service for the agency’s Investigation of Convective Updrafts (INCUS) mission, led by our University Distinguished Professor Sue van den Heever.INCUS aims to understand why, when, and where tropical convective storms form, and why some storms produce extreme weather. The mission will launch on the company’s Alpha rocket from NASA’s Wallops Flight Facility in Virginia.Read more on SOURCE.

February 17, 2025

Congratulations to student presenters

4 photos collage, two students presenting

Atmospheric Science students present at scientific meetings and conferences all year round. Though, members of our community especially travel around the turn of the year for annual conferences. We're celebrating all the student presenters who traveled in the last couple of months. Thank you for sharing your work with the rest of the scientific community. Congratulations to Daniela Guevara for receiving the Outstanding Student Presentation Award for your presentation, Summertime…

February 11, 2025

Celebrating Black History Month: Atmospheric science perspectives

Atmospheric Science Associate Professor Melissa Burt knows what it means to pave the way. In fact, being a Black meteorologist means that there is a good chance you are the first to reach a given achievement said Alan Sealls, President-elect of the American Meteorological Society. Sealls visited CSU in Fall 2024 at the invitation of Department Head Eric Maloney to present on African American milestones in meteorology. African Americans make up a…

January 23, 2025

CSU art exhibition uses air pollution to create art

6 smog collector plates with faces on them

On display from Jan. 22 to March 14 at CSU’s Gregory Allicar Museum of Art, the exhibit “Community Smog” is the product of a partnership between artist Kim Abeles and Northern Colorado community members to create “Smog Collectors.” These plates — which mimic air quality by collecting particulates from the air — were produced collaboratively with Fort Collins seventh graders, artists at Petrichor Collective, members of the Air Quality Monitoring Advisory Committee…

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