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Ryan Heiland invented a system for keeping the lawns green without synthetic fertilizers at CU-Boulder.

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In July 2008, ConocoPhillips announced it signed a $5 million, multiyear sponsored research agreement with the Colorado Center for Biorefining and Biofuels, a research center of the Colorado Renewable Energy Collaboratory, to develop new ways to convert biomass into low-carbon transportation fuels.

There are a variety of support resources for CU-Boulder students facing academic probation, including the Bounce Back program.

Columbia tidewater glacier calving

Fellow of INSTAAR, Professor of Civil, Environmental, and Architectural Engineering, Tad Pfeffer, University of Colorado Boulder

Visit labs at the University of Colorado Boulder with some of the world's best lasers to find out what technical innovations JILA has brought to modern society.

CU-Boulder Music major Michael Ochoa describes how his CU-Boulder Esteemed Scholars scholarship is helping him realize his potential at CU-Boulder.
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"Bioneers is inspiring a shift to live on Earth in ways that honor the web of life, each other and future generations."

The Colorado Bioneers companion event creates community opportunities for sharing, learning and action, and brings together the region's progressive ideas, people and organizations. The event features a broadcast of the national Bioneers plenaries and is locally enriched with: music and arts; networking, children's eco-activities; field trips, and sessions, workshops and keynotes addressing topics of regional importance and community solutions.

This is a coupled run of the HydroTrend River flux model and the Coastline Evolution model CEM. The run is not intended to simulate realistic conditions, but it is thought to be a proxy for the Nile delta. The simulation has two river draining to the coast; one has a wave field comming straight at it, the other wave field comes in under an angle. This results in different development; somewhat similar to the Rosetta and Damietta lobes of the Nile delta in Egypt. For the Nile delta, the first run, kept all parameters constant as discussed above while changing only parameters found in the Wave and Avulsion component. The wave height was set to 1m, period of 6s, asymmetry of 0.4, and highness of 0.7. The avulsion component was set to have two rivers with no deviation, and was restricted to -60 and 70. This appeared somewhat similar to the real Nile with the major difference the angle of the rivers.

Graduate Research Assistant, Mark Hannon, CSDMS, INSTAAR
Univ. of Colorado, Boulder

Researchers at CU Boulder used brain imaging to find a highly accurate test for fibromyalgia. This neurological disorder is characterized by muscular skeletal pain, fatigue, memory and mood disorders. Because symptoms are so varied, people afflicted with the disorder are often not believed.

Time-lapse series of coastal bluff erosion along the Arctic Coast at Drew Point, Beaufort Sea, Alaska. Coastal erosion rates exceeding 20 meters per year are being observed along the Arctic Coast, and they are especially high along Alaska's Beaufort Sea coastline. Comparison of aerial photos and LANDSAT imagery suggest accelerating erosion rates over the last 50 years. Arctic sea ice coverage has been declining dramatically over the last few decades and record September minima were observed in 2007. These observations suggest a causal relationship between sea ice decline and coastal change. The timelapse movies presented here show that the relative roles of thermal and wave energy may be significant. The bluffs consist of silt and have high ice-content. The thawing of the ice-rich bluffs by relatively warm seawater undermines coastal bluffs, leading to topple failures of discrete blocks defined by ice-wedge polygons. The fine-grained nature of these materials does not function as a protective barrier for incoming waves, so there is not a strong negative feedback on erosion rates, so that coastal erosion rates in this setting are likely to increase with continued Arctic warming.

Research Scientist, Irina Overeem, CSDMS, INSTAAR
Univ. of Colorado Boulder

Aerobics, club activities, intramural sports & rock wall climbing are just some of the ways you can stay active and pursue your passions outside of the classroom here at CU Boulder.

Managing construction of CU-Boulder's Solar Decathlon house has provided civil engineering masters candidate Toby Lewis with valuable real-world experience.

CHILD model simulation of a meandering river in its floodplain. The meander migrates through the floodplain, depositing channel sands in its bed.

Quintijn Clevis, Department of Geological Sciences, CIRES
Univ. of Colorado Boulder

Junior Razan Naqeeb tutors high school students. Sophomore Bryant Mason works on community gardens and local food issues. These are just a few examples of how CU students are engaged in their communities.

CU-Boulder joins a national effort to map the heavens in three dimensions as part of Sloan Digital Sky Survey and will be seeking undergraduate and graduate students to help wrangle "big data." Researchers will use images and information collected with the 2.5 meter Sloan telescope at the Apache Point Observatory in New Mexico to learn more about the structure and evolution of the universe, including quasars -- super-massive black holes surrounded by spiraling disks of gas that turn on from time to time to snatch and devour stars and galaxies.

Mark Arnoldy's thesis at the University of Colorado Boulder considers whether a special kind of peanut butter could be the answer to hunger in Nepal.