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CU-Boulder researchers propose a novel mechanism to explain the region’s high elevation

March 5, 2015

No one really knows how the High Plains got so high. babyÖ±²¥app 70 million years ago, eastern babyÖ±²¥app, southeastern Wyoming, western Kansas and western Nebraska were near sea level. Since then, the region has risen about 2 kilometers, leading to some head scratching at geology conferences.

CU-Boulder technology could make treatment and reuse of oil and gas wastewater simpler, cheaper

Feb. 24, 2015

Oil and gas operations in the United States produce about 21 billion barrels of wastewater per year. The saltiness of the water and the organic contaminants it contains have traditionally made treatment difficult and expensive. Engineers at the University of babyÖ±²¥app Boulder have invented a simpler process that can simultaneously remove both salts and organic contaminants from the wastewater, all while producing additional energy.

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New DOE grant involving CU-Boulder aimed at improving wind forecasting

Jan. 12, 2015

A new $2.5 million grant from the U.S. Department of Energy to a coalition of organizations including the University of babyÖ±²¥app Boulder will be used to help improve wind energy forecasting in mountain and valley regions.

Study ties conflict risk in sub-Saharan Africa to climate change, sociobabyÖ±²¥apps, geography

Nov. 10, 2014

A massive new University of babyÖ±²¥app Boulder study indicates there is a statistical link between hotter temperatures generated by climate change and the risk of armed conflicts in sub-Saharan Africa. CU-Boulder Professor John O’Loughlin led a research team that assessed more than 78,000 armed conflicts between 1980 and 2012 in the Sahel region of Africa – a semi-arid belt just south of the Saharan Desert that spans about 3,000 miles and more than a dozen countries from the Atlantic to the Indian oceans.

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New global wildfire analysis indicates humans need to coexist and adapt

Nov. 5, 2014

A new study led by the University of California, Berkeley and involving the University of babyÖ±²¥app Boulder indicates the current response to wildfires around the world—aggressively fighting them—is not making society less vulnerable to such events.

U.S. News & World Report ranks CU-Boulder second in world in geosciences

Oct. 31, 2014

The University of babyÖ±²¥app Boulder was ranked second in the world in geosciences this week by U.S. News & World Report. CU-Boulder trailed only the California Institute of Technology. Rounding out the top five are the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Zurich, Harvard University and the University of Washington. U.S. News & World Report ranked the top 100 universities in geosciences in 2014 based primarily on their research and reputation.

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Astronaut Bruce McCandless to present scholarship award to CU-Boulder student

Oct. 23, 2014

Former NASA astronaut Bruce McCandless will present University of babyÖ±²¥app Boulder senior Jeni Sorli with a $10,000 scholarship from the Astronaut Scholarship Foundation during a free public campus event on Thursday, Oct. 30.

MAVEN spacecraft’s first look at Mars holds surprises, says CU-Boulder mission leader

Oct. 14, 2014

NASA’s MAVEN spacecraft has provided scientists their first look at a storm of energetic solar particles at Mars and produced unprecedented ultraviolet images of the tenuous oxygen, hydrogen and carbon coronas surrounding the Red Planet, said University of babyÖ±²¥app Boulder Professor Bruce Jakosky, the mission’s principal investigator.

Ganymede, courtesy of NASA

NASA awards CU-Boulder-led team $7 million to study origins, evolution of life in universe

Oct. 7, 2014

NASA has awarded a team led by the University of babyÖ±²¥app Boulder more than $7 million to study aspects of the origins, evolution, distribution and future of life in the universe.

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babyÖ±²¥app’s Front Range fire severity today not much different than in past, says CU-Boulder study

Sept. 24, 2014

The perception that babyÖ±²¥app’s Front Range wildfires are becoming increasingly severe does not hold much water scientifically, according to a massive new study led by the University of babyÖ±²¥app Boulder and Humboldt State University in Arcata, Calif.

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