This story appears in the 2014-15 issue of Mines' research magazine, "Energy & the Earth." Water and oil don’t mix. With oil and gas production and water, it’s quite the opposite. Getting at the
GOLDEN, Colo., April 21, 2014 – Colorado School of Mines research on the impact on watersheds by the mountain pine beetle infestation has been published by the journal Nature Climate Change. The study
The Feb. 27-28 Conference on Earth & Energy Research gave graduate students the opportunity to practice presenting their research in a professional environment, while judges provided feedback. Last
GOLDEN, Colo., June 27, 2013 – Colorado School of Mines research on the impact of the mountain pine beetle infestation on water quality has been published in the journal Biogeochemistry. “Bark beetle
By Todd Neff Forests across the Mountain West have gone orange and faded to gray. Since about the turn of the millennium, the mountain pine beetle’s appetite for lodgepole has killed off some four
A slow, persistent landslide is undermining a short section of I-70, about a mile from the highest point on the nation’s Interstate Highway System. Finding a solution is a conundrum that one Mines
GOLDEN, Colo., Sept. 27, 2012 – Researchers at Colorado School of Mines have been awarded part of a four-year $1.5 million NSF Water Sustainability and Climate program grant to investigate urban
Large scale impacts of the mountain pine beetle epidemic are shown in Rocky Mountain National Park. Close-up of "pitch tubes," the holes pine beetles bore into trees to lay their eggs. GOLDEN, Colo
GOLDEN, Colo., July 17, 2012 – Wendy Harrison, Colorado School of Mines professor of geology and geological engineering, has been named division director for the National Science Foundation’s Division
GOLDEN, Colo., June 27, 2012 – As numerous wildfires burn across Colorado, a new study conducted by Mines Civil and Environmental Engineering graduate students last semester details how these fires