Department of Atmospheric Science | Colorado State University

Colorado State University students shared their research at the 2026 American Meteorological Society Madison Summit. Thank you each for representing the department with your outstanding work.

Christine Neumaier won 1st place po...

Associate Professor Maria Rugenstein was named 2026 ATS Outstanding Professor of the Year. The winner of this annual award, selected by the graduate students, is honored for exceptional instruction. Graduate representative Killian McSweeney presented the award. Congratulations Maria, and thanks to the department Grad Reps for administering the selection process.

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Welcome to all of our new graduate students. We’re very excited to see the great things that this incoming class will do.

Photo, left to right, front to back: Ben Macy, Daeseok Han, Nikhil Trivedi, Aiden Ridgway, Cody Converse, Sarah Gryskewicz, Dalton Jones, Allison Sousa, Chandler Wells, Olivia Griffith, Alyssa Shih, Molly Mckellar and Chaimae Miorqi.

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The American Meteorological Society honored several CSU Department of Atmospheric Science faculty members with some of the Society’s most prestigious awards.

“It is my absolute pleasure to announce that our department was highly honored,” said Eric Maloney, department head. “We look forward to celebrating with all the awardees at the AMS Annual Meeting in Denver in ...

Editor’s note: Allie Mazurek, engagement climatologist and researcher at the Colorado Climate Center, wrote this piece following a July 31 symposium in Estes Park convened by the Colorado Climate Center to commemorate the 50th anniversary of the Big Thompson Flood. The event brought together experts, including several from CSU, to share flood-related rese...