COOL NEWS: CU-Boulder Students to Launch Radar Experiment: Why Does North Boulder Tend to Receive More Snow Than South Boulder?
Mar 4th
About 100 University of Colorado Boulder students will be using Doppler on Wheels radar as part of an experiment between now and April 15 to investigate why north Boulder tends to receive more snow than south Boulder.
The radar equipment, which many people are familiar with from the Discovery Channel series on tornadoes titled “Storm Chasers,” will be deployed during two snowstorms in Boulder. Groups of two or three students will rotate to assist in the operation of the radar every two hours between 8 a.m. and 6 p.m.
The students, primarily non-science majors, are taking a class titled Weather and Atmosphere taught by Assistant Professor Katja Friedrich of the atmospheric and oceanic science department. The National Science Foundation is loaning the equipment as part of an educational project in which students will learn how to conduct scientific measurements and interpret data.
“With this activity we want to provide our undergraduate students with some hands-on experience and hope to get them more interested in science,” Friedrich said.
Media are welcome to visit the radar site when it is in operation during a snowstorm. To be added to an e-mail notification list of when students are likely to be operating the equipment, and the two site locations, send an e-mail to Friedrich as early as possible at Katja.Friedrich@Colorado.EDU.
Friedrich also can be reached by cell phone at 720-939-6507. Or contact Peter Caughey in the CU-Boulder Office of Media Relations and News Services at 303-492-4007 or caughey@colorado.edu.
No radar deployments will occur during CU-Boulder’s spring break, March 21-25, or on weekends.
More information about the project, “Teaching Flow Over Mountains” or the TOM experiment, is posted at http://rain.colorado.edu/TOM-experiment.
Earth Day San Francisco Earth Day Festival 2011 plans ahead of Boulder
Mar 4th
Largest Earth Day event in the Bay Area at Civic Center Plaza on April 23, from 10:00 A.M. to 6:00 P.M.
SAN FRANCISCO, CA, March 3, 2011, –/WORLD-WIRE/– New on the Earth Day scene this year is Earth Day SF, a free public event focused on helping our community take action steps toward creating eco-sustainable solutions to our local and global ecological challenges.
This new educational festival and multi-cultural entertainment event will keynote pressing environmental issues & promote solution oriented community action. Top Notch Music, performance, well-known speakers & activists will grace our three stages: Earth Day Main Stage, Speaker’s Stage and Gaia Stage. Exhibitions, hands on workshops and solution-based talks on eco-green topics are major components of the event in our Permaculture Zone, Clean Energy Zone, Holistic Wellness Zone and Youth in Action Zone.
Join leading members of the business and indigenous communities,educators, artists and artisans, craftspeople, civic community leaders, local “eco-green” politicians, ceremonialists, workshop leaders, eco-green & youth activists and social justice non-profit organizations in a powerful full on day.
Meet in person, Native American Chaske Spencer, Star in the film The Twilight Saga bringing his own cause to Earth Day San Francisco.
Suspect arrested in Wells Fargo bank robbery
Mar 3rd
Boulder police have identified the suspect in a Wells Fargo bank robbery earlier this week, and the suspect is in custody.
Police in Denver arrested 23-year old William Anthony Chren III (08/26/87) yesterday for an incident unrelated to Monday’s Wells Fargo robbery at 1690 Canyon Boulevard in Boulder. Believing there may be a connection to the Denver suspect, investigators from Boulder and Denver worked together.
After witnesses identified Chren as the Wells Fargo suspect, Boulder police obtained a warrant for Chren’s arrest this morning.
Chren is currently being held at the Denver County Jail. His bail is set at $25,000.
Anyone with information is asked to contact Boulder Police Detective Brian Scott at 303-441-3381.
