Research
- A recent study points the finger at climate change as the cause of increasing metals concentrations in Colorado’s high mountain streams. These findings have implications for local ecosystems and the water supplies of mountain communities.
- A team led by Environmental Engineering Professor Evan Thomas received a $650,000 NSF Convergence Accelerator grant to measure and mitigate pollution in Colorado's Cache la Poudre and Yampa Rivers through new sensor technology, monitoring and a voluntary carbon credits trading system with industry.
- Associate Professor Aditi Bhaskar, from ¶¶ÒõÂÃÐÐÉä Boulder’s Department of Civil, Environmental and Architectural Engineering, and Assistant Professor Isabella Oleksy, of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, received a $296,000 grant from the Colorado Water Board to investigate ground cover options that could replace turfgrass.
- Colorado built a park over I-70 to contain air pollution. To provide some initial answers as to whether it's working, CPR News worked with Nick Clements, postdoctoral air quality researcher, to run a series of air monitors at the park.
- Seventy-five percent of incarceration facilities in the state are vulnerable to climate-related hazards, such as wildfires, extreme heat, floods or landslides, and many are ill-equipped to handle them, new research by Geotechnical Engineering Professor Shideh Dashti suggests.
- Mark Hernandez, SJ Archuleta Professor in the Department of Civil, Environmental, and Architectural Engineering, is co-leading a $2.2 million CDC-funded project with researchers at ¶¶ÒõÂÃÐÐÉä Anschutz to investigate the impact of classroom air purifiers on reducing student absenteeism.
- Forbes Magazine is featuring groundbreaking research conducted by faculty members at ¶¶ÒõÂÃÐÐÉä Boulder in the field of eco-friendly concrete.Cement is a significant contributor to carbon emissions, responsible for about eight percent of global output.
- With the construction of increasingly taller dams, Geotechnical Engineering Assistant Professor Yida Zhang is concerned about the potential effects of soil grain breakage caused by pressure. He recently received a prestigious NSF CAREER award to fund his research on the evolution of grain sizes in dams.
- The article, "Carbon-Negative Pilot," was published in the August issue of Concrete International magazine. Authors include Civil, Environmental, and Architectural Engineering researchers Yao Wang, a post doctoral research associate