by admin | Oct 14, 2020 | News
Historic Hurricane Delta – October 7, 2020 The 2020 hurricane season in the Atlantic Ocean has been a very active one, seeing 25 named storms (the average for a season is 12). And it’s still not over, as the season doesn’t officially end until November...
by admin | Oct 4, 2020 | News
Fire: The Climate Connection – September 30, 2020 As we’ve gathered more data and evidence these last few years on the global impacts of climate change, a new field has emerged: extreme-event attribution, which investigates if and to what extent climate...
by admin | Sep 26, 2020 | News
Conglomerates! – September 23, 2020 Yesterday Ricardo and I climbed Challenger Point (14,081 ft.), a 12.5 mile round-trip hike with 5400 vertical feet of gain. As a geologist, I always love to look at the rocks that we’re climbing and this peak was no...
by admin | Sep 26, 2020 | News
Carbon Sequestration – September 16, 2020 Today we talk about carbon sequestration, the long-term natural or artificial storage of carbon dioxide or other forms of carbon from the atmosphere. There is a series of checks and balances that happen on the...
by admin | Sep 26, 2020 | News
Wild Weather – September 9, 2020 It’s Science Wednesday! Here in Colorado, we went from record-setting heat near 100 degrees Fahrenheit with raging wildfires over the Labor Day weekend to freezing temperatures and snow showers Tuesday/Wednesday. What...
