Carol Finn at Yellowstone

Alum Leads Study Mapping Yellowstone’s Plumbing

Nov. 7, 2022

Carol Finn and her team of researchers are the first to use electromagnetic sensors to map the hydrothermal network — the plumbing — under Yellowstone National Park.

backpackers on a mountain

Life at 22,000 Feet

July 11, 2022

In December 2021, a trio of CU scientists sought to discover how life persists on Argentina and Chile’s Ojos del Salado, the world’s highest volcano and home to some of the planet’s driest areas.

Volcano

Deadly Eruption

Dec. 1, 2013

When the Earth took a turn for the worse in A.D. 536, what was to blame? Anthropology professor Payson Sheets thinks the answer lies in a plastic bag.