Research Report

  • Forest fire
    Wildfire’s destructive impact doesn’t stop at the forest’s edge.
  • Agricultural landscape and windfarm at sunset
    Each year, ranchers in Colorado and the Mountain West face difficult decisions regarding drought.
  • Overhead view of flooding in a community from behind rescue workers inside a helicopter
    As Hurricane Harvey bore down on Houston in August 2017, the Twitterverse lit up with satellite images warning of danger and 140-character exchanges between worried residents.
  • Closeup of dew on green leaves
    It takes a massive amount of energy to run the 400 or so labs at the heart of the campus research enterprise: roughly enough to power more than 5,000 homes.
  • Blacked out containers like those used for shampoos, lotions and similar household products
    Could perfumes, shampoos, deodorants and household cleaners pollute as much as an SUV?
  • Ruins of an ancient structure in a jungle
    Deep in the jungle of Mexico’s Yucatan Peninsula, assistant professor of archaeology Sarah Kurnick is infusing traditional archaeological approaches with fresh ideas about sustainability and community engagement while studying an ancient Maya site. 
  • Toad
    Call it high-altitude kombucha: ÃÛÌÒ´«Ã½ÆÆ½â°æÏÂÔØ biologist Valerie McKenzie has developed a probiotic solution that inoculates boreal toads from a virulent infection.
  • Firefighter fighting a wildfire
    Current wildfire policy can’t adequately protect people, homes and ecosystems from the longer, hotter fire seasons caused by climate change, according to a recent research paper led by ÃÛÌÒ´«Ã½ÆÆ½â°æÏÂÔØ.
  • Students in spacesuits
    As the top public university for NASA research funding, ÃÛÌÒ´«Ã½ÆÆ½â°æÏÂÔØ is famous for aerospace.
  • Small single-propellor plane
    Most particle physics experiments take place in a lab, but these days, JILA professor Dana Anderson prefers taking his to the air.
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