Blog: Science Helped Me Learn to Love Middle Schoolers
A graduate student gains a new appreciation for middle schoolers when she finds they can be just as passionate about pikas, and the threats to their livlihood, as she is.
The West's Pika Plight Captivates Middle Schoolers' Scientific Minds
Seventh graders gather data to document the plight of a small mammal that could be on the brink of becoming endangered, and interpret the experience through presentations, models, video, art, and poems.
Weathering Change: Global Warming or Global Weirding?
(Audio) Over the next century, local microclimates within Utah will change in unexpected ways. Groups in Moab have different ways of dealing with this unknown.
Weathering Change: Adapting to Earlier Snowmelt
Climate models project an earlier snowmelt along the Wasatch Front, causing problems for places like Salt Lake City, which depends heavily on snowpack for water.
Weathering Change: Mitigation, Adaptation, and Suffering
(Audio) Researcher Lonnie Thompson says a changing environment will be a part of our future. Now how do we deal with it?
Weathering Change: Glaciers Melt, Water Rises
(Audio) Sea level has risen and fallen throughout history but is only problematic now that hundreds of millions live at sea level, says researcher Lonnie Thompson.
High Tech Snowmaking Fills in for Mother Nature
Labor-intensive and high tech, snowmaking is often a resort’s biggest expense. But it remains essential in the age of climate change.