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The Council on Research and Creative Work at the University of Colorado at Boulder has awarded 14 faculty fellowships for the 2003-04 academic year. "We are pleased to provide these fellowships to faculty who have demonstrated clear research objectives, who have distinguished track records and whose research shows significant potential impact," said Jerry Peterson, associate vice chancellor for research in the Graduate School, who recently announced the fellows.

Salvage logging after rare, hurricane-force winds blow down western coniferous forests can cause more damage than the original wind disturbance, according to a new University of Colorado at Boulder study. Researchers from the CU-based Cooperative Institute for Research in Environmental Sciences, or CIRES, have been studying the ecological effects of salvage logging following an astounding tree "blow-down" in Routt National Forest in northwestern Colorado during October 1997, said doctoral student Cristina Rumbaitis-del Rio and Professor Carol Wessman.

The total area of surface melt on the Greenland Ice Sheet for 2002 broke all known records for the island and the extent of Arctic sea ice reached the lowest level in the satellite record, according to scientists at the University of Colorado at Boulder. Researchers from the CU-based Cooperative Institute for Research in Environmental Sciences, or CIRES, say the accelerated melting appears to be linked to shifts in Northern Hemisphere atmospheric circulation patterns.

Two University of Colorado at Boulder researchers have received prestigious 2002 Fellowship awards from the American Geophysical Union. Roger Bilham, a CU-Boulder geography professor at the Cooperative Institute for Research in Environmental Sciences, or CIRES, and David Fahey, a CIRES research associate, both were named fellows. CIRES is a joint center of CU-Boulder and the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration.