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CU-Boulder Team to Assess Air Quality and Respiratory Health Risks Stemming From Gulf Oil Spill

By Guest PostAugust 20, 2010Environment2005, air quality, alina handorean, chemical dispersants, cu-boulder, environmental engineering lab, environmental fate, fernando rosario-ortiz, floodwater, gulf coast, gulf of mexico, gulf oil spill, hurricanes katrina, hydrocarbons, karl linden, kevin mccabe, mark Hernandez, new orleans, novel toxicology assessment tools, oil spill, rita, university of colorado at boulder

Postdoctoral fellows and graduate students from Professor Mark Hernandez’s environmental engineering lab at the University of Colorado at Boulder will travel to the Gulf Coast this week to begin studying the effect of this summer’s oil spill on air quality along impacted shores.

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Ice Core Drilling Effort Involving CU-Boulder Should Help Assess Abrupt Climate Change Risks

By Guest PostAugust 3, 20102 commentsEnvironment, Sciencebedrock, climate change, cu-boulder, dorthe dahl-jensen, eemian, eemian ice drilling project, Germany, greenland, ice cores, ice sheet, interglacial period, j p steffensen, jim white, neem, north greenland, tyler jones, vasilii petrenko

Ice Core Drilling Effort Involving CU-Boulder Should Help Assess Abrupt Climate Change Risks An international science team involving the University of Colorado at Boulder that is working on the North Greenland Eemian Ice Drilling project hit bedrock July 27 after two summers of work, drilling down more than 1.5 miles in an effort to help assess the risks of abrupt future climate change on Earth.

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