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Tipoffs for Boulder, Colorado (Public Policy) Newsletter for Saturday October 19, 2024 ( 4 items )  

Cooperative Institute for Research in Environmental Sciences: CLEAN Revitalizes Climate Education With New Climate Literacy Principles
BOULDER, Colorado, Oct. 19 (TNSres) -- The Cooperative Institute for Research in Environmental Sciences issued the following news: * * * The CIRES program is built on a new interagency climate education guide * * * A day before Hurricane Helene barreled across the Gulf of Mexico toward the Florida coast, the federal government unveiled the 2024 Climate Literacy Guide, which summarizes the best practices on how to understand and address climate change, its unequal impacts, and a long list of   more

NSF NCAR Receives Major Grant to Improve Climate Projections
BOULDER, Colorado, Oct. 18 -- The National Center for Atmospheric Research issued the following news release: * * * $1.45 million NOAA grant will help produce critical information for decision makers * * * The U.S. National Science Foundation National Center for Atmospheric Research (NSF NCAR) received a major grant from NOAA this month to improve projections of future climate. The $1.45 million grant will enable NSF NCAR to run multiple computer model simulations, providing decision makers  more

SFI Welcomes Complexity Postdoctoral Fellow Izabel Aguiar
SANTA FE, New Mexico, Oct. 19 (TNSres) -- Santa Fe Institute issued the following news release: Exploring complex social systems with a quantitative approach involves abstracting rich and nuanced data. Many tools for analyzing these data are then developed with assumptions that do not always reflect or incorporate more qualitative, or theoretical, observations of the systems in question. SFI Complexity Postdoctoral Fellow Izabel Aguiar contends that what is lost in the process of strict quant  more

Waterkeeper Alliance: Major Legal Victory Against Colorado's Gross Dam Expansion Project
NEW YORK, Oct. 18 -- Waterkeeper Alliance issued the following news release on Oct. 17, 2024: Today, the United States District Court for the District of Colorado granted Waterkeeper Alliance and its partners--Save the Colorado, The Environmental Group, WildEarth Guardians, Living Rivers, and Sierra Club--a major legal victory against the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers' unlawful dredge-and-fill permit for the expansion of the Gross Dam in Colorado, a part of Denver Water's Moffat Collection Syste  more