“People would be coming up with a trailer with a whole bunch of big tanks on it and a motorized pump and people could possibly be leaving with anywhere around 500 gallons at a time,” Colorado School of Mines student Dodd Weyandt said.

Two sophomores at the Colorado School of Mines designed a $564 system to allow an unclaimed but locally beloved artesian spring in Teller County to remain open.

“If you can’t grow it, you have to mine it,” says Lee Fronapfel, mine manager of the Edgar Experimental Mine for the Colorado School of Mines. “People think that’s a cliché, but if it hasn’t been grown, I’ll bet my bottom dollar it was mined.”

Peter Maniloff, a professor of energy and environmental policy at the Colorado School of Mines, said offshore oil's high costs and long project timelines pose a barrier.

Judith Klein-Seetharaman, associate professor of chemistry and director of bioscience and bioengineering at The Colorado School of Mines, is teaming up with Hua Wang, associate professor of computer science, on the project.

Dr. Christian Shorey, assistant department head of geology and geology engineering at the Colorado School of Mines, said scientists technically define an active volcano as one that has erupted in the last 10,000 years – meaning the Dotsero volcano ....

“I think it’s going around social media that our generation’s first memories are 9/11, and now we’re all graduating into a job market that is virtually nonexistent,” said Colorado School of Mines civil engineering graduate Madelyn Caviness.

Colorado School of Mines professor of petroleum engineering Will Fleckenstein says the sudden and precipitous drop in oil prices is a perfect storm.

“Students are worried,” says Wendy Winter-Searcy, a director at the career center at Colorado School of Mines. She’s been trying to “help them brainstorm alternative paths.”

“I promise you, there are no projects in Antarctica where the equipment works perfectly,” said Matthew Siegfried, a glaciologist at the Colorado School of Mines.