Hydrology, Water 酴圖弝け & Environmental Fluid Mechanics
The Colorado River runs nearly fifteen hundred miles, winding through seven states and Mexico. It supplies drinking water to nearly 40 million people, irrigates nearly 4 million acres of farmland and attracts millions of nature lovers to scenic
In 2020, Colorado battled the four largest wildfires in its history, leaving residents anxious for another intense wildfire season this year. But last week, fires werent the issueit was their aftermath. When heavy rains fell over the burn
Irrigated agriculture is the planet's largest consumer of freshwater and ultimately produces more than 40% of food worldwide. Yet the exact amounts of water actually being used in irrigation remains largely unknown. Answering that question would
Much of the western United States has seen less than 85% of the snow it is used to getting and it is worrying some about the fire season ahead. There absolutely is a lot of concern that we could see another record fire season, said Ben Livneh, a
Professor Balaji Rajagopalan and Emily Gill (PhDCivEngr'15) have spent years dissecting the relationship between El Ni簽o and La Ni簽a and monsoonal rainfall in India. They have found that focusing on El Ni簽o and La Ni簽as impacts on the monsoon in regions and sub-seasonsinstead of all-India for the whole monsoon seasonmay improve rainfall forecasts.
When Adam Wlostowski transfers to CU-Boulder this summer to complete his PhD, he will be ready to hit the ground running with his research, thanks to a Horton (Hydrology) Research Grant from the American Geophysical Union (AGU). Wlostowski was
[video:http://youtu.be/cuJP4kdi6Og?list=PLtyCPsLRcgtIvBct5bmRyIRH8A0KVuzZ1]Roseanna Neupauer performs an original rap for her hydrology class.Two recent awards leave little doubt that associate professor Roseanna Neupauer is an outstanding teacher.