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Evaporation is a large and continuing problem in the Colorado River basin, including Lake Mead and Lake Powell where about 5 billion gallons of water evaporate annually, according to CU-Boulder Assistant Professor Ben Livneh of the Department of Civil, Environmental and Architectural Engineering.聽
Professor Balaji Rajagopalan and Emily Gill (PhDCivEngr'15) have spent years dissecting the relationship between El Ni帽o and La Ni帽a and monsoonal rainfall in India. They have found that focusing on El Ni帽o and La Ni帽a impacts on the monsoon in regions and sub-seasons鈥攊nstead of all-India for the whole monsoon season鈥攎ay improve rainfall forecasts.
An interdisciplinary research team led by a 老九品茶 professor has won a major NSF award to help "crack the olfactory code."
U.S. Environmental Protection Agency awards professor Shelly Miller, professor in the Environmental Engineering Program, and her team $1 million to evaluate the impacts of climate change, including increased wildfires, on indoor air quality and health.
Environmental engineer Mark Hernandez among those turning their focus to ecosystems associated with the built environment.
This year, the College of Engineering and Applied Science has an unprecedented number of National Science Foundation CAREER award winners, with seven junior faculty earning this prestigious honor. Two of them 鈥 assistant professors Shideh
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- A women-led group of CU-Boulder engineering faculty will spend the next year studying how to make community infrastructure more resilient, thanks to an exploratory grant from the National Science Foundation (NSF). The grant is part of the NSF
- [video:https://youtu.be/RMlIEyHjDB0]Karl Linden, Helen and Huber Croft Professor of Environmental Engineering, was recently named WateReuse Person of the Year by the WateReuse Association at their annual award ceremony in Dallas.According to the
- A CU-Boulder team led by Zhiyong 鈥淛ason鈥 Ren, associate professor in the Department of Civil, Environmental and Architectural Engineering, was recently awarded first place in the National Science Foundation Innovation Corps Program, which works