Results for keyword: scientists
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Surveying the oft-snubbed (and very cool) spider with citizen scientists
Volunteers at the Denver Museum of Nature and Science's Colorado Spider Survey help scientists gather important data by roaming nooks and crannies across the state, finding and cataloguing Colorado's myriad spiders.
by Marian Lyman Kirst, Jun 14, 2012 -
What should we do with our blink of time?
Natural history teaches us how rapidly and irrevocably the world can change -- a fact we should bear in mind as we enter the new, human-dominated era some scientists call the Anthropocene.
by Stephen Trimble, May 31, 2012 -
Washington's Hanford Reservation and nuclear plant may lie on faults
Brian Sherrod, a government paleoseismologist, believes cities and infrastructure in eastern Washington may be far more earthquake-prone than previously realized.
by Bill Lascher, Oct 25, 2011 -
Bridging American Indian students' scientific achievement gap
Educator Michael Ceballos breaks down the barriers keeping young Native Americans from careers in science.
by Erica Gies, May 11, 2011 -
Between the grims and the grins
We will need humility as well as technology to triumph over climate change.
by Allen Best, Mar 30, 2010 -
Good night, sweet trees
A scientist sees a Shakespearean tragedy unfold in the West’s dying aspen forests, victims of climate change.
by William R.L. Anderegg, Feb 26, 2010 -
A scientist's view of change
In Of Rock and Rivers, Ellen Wohl, a geomorphologist, reads the story behind the Western landscape.
by Valerie Rapp, Nov 22, 2009 -
Renewables: The Final Frontier
Vaclav Smil is a historian who exemplifies Vulcan-style logic and skepticism when it comes to easy solutions to energy problems.
by Randy Udall, Jun 26, 2009 -
Science under glass
Researchers are using Arizona’s Biosphere 2 to study how plant communities affect the movement of water.
by Tim Hull, May 22, 2009 -
The collected Sierra Nevada
Meteorologist Hal Klieforth has collected a lifetime of knowledge – and a museum’s worth of artifacts – from years spent exploring the Sierra Nevada.
by Terray Sylvester , Apr 28, 2009
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