This week, both NPR for Northern Colorado (KUNC) and Colorado’s 11 News (KKTV) invited Professor Hussam Mahmoud to describe his work on predicting the path of wildfires within communities. While there are several models for predicting wildfire paths in forests and wildlands, communities are more challenging to predict. Yet, his groundbreaking model was able to…Read more
NSF has awarded CSU Assistant Professor Ryan G. Smith a $328,981 grant to study how subsidence, or the sinking of land area from the removal of groundwater, affects long-term water availability in southwest Utah.
Morrison develops framework for measuring floodplain integrity across the contiguous U.S. Associate Professor Ryan Morrison details his latest research in the development of an index of floodplain integrity in an article published by Communications Earth & Environment entitled “Degradation of floodplain integrity within the contiguous United States.” Floodplains provide critical environmental benefits such as reducing the impact…Read more
Steep flume used to test removable grout seams On Friday, July 14, the CEE Hydraulics Laboratory used an outdoor steep flume at the Engineering Research Center to test grout seams used in the installation of articulating concrete blocks (ACBs) revetment systems. This hydraulic testing is being performed for a global consulting company to provide design…Read more
Associate Professor Peter Nelson did not plan to research wildfires when he accepted a faculty position with CSU in 2012. Yet, a few months before his faculty position began, the High Park fire in Larimer County would change that. Nelson was in Italy at the University of Genoa serving as a National Science Foundation postdoctoral…Read more
Professor Hussam Mahmoud has been awarded a three-year, $2.7 million grant from the Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation for expanding his model predicting wildfire progress through a community.
The cover of the June 2023 edition of Nature Water features research by Associate Professor Tiezheng Tong and PhD student Yiqun Yao entitled “Electrodialytic crystallization to enable zero liquid discharge.” Wastewater with high salinity has typically required the use of evaporation or freezing to crystalize the salt thereby removing it from the water, but the process…Read more
The 2023 edition of Colorado State University RESEARCH magazine features the work of Hussam Mahmoud and his research group, in the article “Confronting the Climate Crisis: CSU meets a global challenge head-on with research, engagement, and students.” The new issue, which focuses on the theme of resilience, is out now in digital format, and will…Read more
Associate Professor Ryan Morrison and coauthors Ellen Wohl and Richard Knox of the Department of Geosciences received the news that their paper, “A river ran through it: Floodplains as America’s newest relict landform” was selected by faculty in the Warner College of Natural Resources for this year’s Outstanding Publication award. WCNR Dean Alonso Aguirre called…Read more
Along active faults like the San Andreas Fault in California, monitoring stations detect where subtle lateral movements happen – or don’t. If most of the fault keeps shifting, but one area remains still, it can be a sign that pressure is building there. That growing pressure will eventually be released in an earthquake, and scientists…Read more