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A wide view of snow-covered pines in mountains.
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Trees Wearing Accelerometers Help Track Snowstorms

by Rebecca Dzombak 15 April 202215 April 2022

This device allows scientists to measure how much snow is trapped in canopies and predict changes to snowpack—a critical factor in annual water availability.

A room in a home filled with atmospheric research equipment, including three gas cylinders that are connected to a mass spectrometer.
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Crowdsourced Science Helps Monitor Air Quality in Smoke-Damaged Homes

by Fionna M. D. Samuels 23 February 202231 May 2022

Researchers collaborate with residents to measure airborne chemicals in homes and evaluate how clean the air really is after remediation from Colorado’s Marshall Fire.

This junction in Colorado’s Snake River is tinged with orange due to acid rock drainage.
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New Contamination Concern for Colorado Streams

by Nancy Averett 14 October 202121 March 2022

Abandoned hardrock mines and climate change cause metals and other elements to leach into streams. They also put rare earth elements into the water, a new study finds.

SAIL site in Gothic, Colo..
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Collaboration in the Rockies Aims to Model Mountain Watersheds Worldwide

by Saima Sidik 21 September 202121 March 2022

As Earth’s climate changes at an unprecedented rate, the Surface Atmosphere Integrated Field Laboratory is studying precipitation on an unprecedented scale.

Plot showing distribution of iron species at three locations
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Zero-valent Iron in the Oxidizing Atmosphere?

by Jonathan H. Jiang 26 October 20205 May 2022

A comparative study of urban, semi-urban, and rural sites reveals that the species of atmospheric iron varies depending on location.

Smoke from the Camp fire near Paradise, Calif. (top) and the Hill and Woolsey fires near Los Angeles (bottom) spreads across the West Coast and a portion of the Pacific Ocean in this 9 November 2018 true-color image from NASA's Terra satellite
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Invisible Wildfire Smoke Has Visible Health Impacts

by E. I. Garcia de Jesus 11 January 20195 January 2022

Wildfires in the Pacific Northwest were linked to upticks in respiratory problems in Colorado, a new study shows.

An NSF/NCAR research aircraft prepares for takeoff to Boise, Idaho, to study western wildfire smoke.
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UCAR to Keep Managing National Center for Atmospheric Research

by Randy Showstack 28 September 201826 October 2021

The head of the University Corporation for Atmospheric Research says he is excited about “taking our science to the next level.”

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Forensic Analysis of Landslide Reveals Rocky Secrets

by JoAnna Wendel 4 March 201624 February 2022

Scientists used drones, seismic data, and eyewitness accounts to figure out what unleashed an unthinkably large landslide on a spring day in Colorado.

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