ATMOS OLYMPICS 2025

ATS grad students faced off (Team Observations vs. Team Models) in an an annual department tradition of games and challenges. Team Observations (red) took the win!

21 May 2025, 4-6 pm, Spring Canyon Park

What's Brewing

Special Earth Month Edition! We enjoyed excellent talks about agrivoltaics, civil engineering in a changing climate, and paleoclimatic insights from Thomas Hickey, Dr. Frances Davenport, and Dr. Jeremy Rugenstein. 

21 April 2025, 5-7 PM at the Lyric Cinema

Fort Collins High School Visit

ATS hosted a group of high school students, who got a chance to learn about weather balloon launching, hurricane season forecasting, and what it's like to work and study in the atmospheric sciences! 

10 April 2025

What's Brewing

CSU alumni Faith Groff, Principal Solutions Consultant at Jupiter Intelligence, and Ali Cole, Atmospheric Scientist at CPP Wind Engineering Consultants discussed their experiences as private sector atmospheric scientists! 

28 March 2025 | ATS 101

FORTCAST at Little Shop of Physics 2025!

Our ATS graduate students came together to present and teach the community about atmospheric science topics! The kids loved it!

2 March 2025 | Lory Student Center

What's Brewing

Quinton Lawton, ASP post-doc at NSF NCAR, gave a talk to ATS students about his journey through the atmospheric sciences. 

February 28, 2025 | ATS 101

Youth Climate Leadership Summit & Career Fair

FORTCAST showcased our graduate program in Atmospheric Science to high school students interested in careers in climate science 

February 27, 2025 | ATS 101

Valentine's Day Hot Coco & Coloring

February 14, 2025 | ATS Community Space

FORTCAST at AMS 2025!

FORTCAST members showcased what our student chapter has been up to in the last year! 

January 2025 | New Orleans, LA

Halloween Cookies and Costume Contest

Students and staff took some time off to enjoy some Halloween cookie decorating. Costume contest winners received FORTCAST merch as prizes! 

31 October 2024 | ATS Community Space

Bauder Elementary Visit

ATS hosted another visit for 3rd graders from Bauder Elementary!  We demonstrated how weather balloons and drones are used to gain information about temperature, moisture, and wind in the atmosphere, how we measure rainfall, and why different gases in the atmosphere are important for our warming planet!

15 October 2024 | ATS

YSSAR 2024

Lots of great talks and posters from students across the Front Range hosted here at ATS!

11 October 2024 | CIRA Commons

What's Brewing

Chris Bianchi, Meteorologist at 9 News in Denver, gave a talk about his career to ATS students. 

4 October 2024 | ATS 101

Ice Cream Social!

Beating the heat with ice cream! Almost 80 of our students and staff took some time off to enjoy company and ice cream during this 90+ deg day!

13 June 2024 | ATS Community Space

Elementary School Field Trip

The 3rd graders from Bauder Elementary were ecstatic to learn about the atmosphere from our ATS scientists! We demonstrated how weather balloons and drones are used to gain information about temperature, moisture, and wind in the atmosphere, how we measure rainfall, and why different gases in the atmopshere are important for our warming planet!

23 May 2024 | ATS Hill

Atmos Olympics

It's that time of the year again where are ATMOS Graduate students faced off in a series of intense events to fight for the crown. Team Fahrenheit (red) took the win!

16 May 2024 | Spring Canyon Park

What's Brewing

For this What's Brewing, we are exited to host our very own Professor Jim Hurrell! Jim gave an overview of his career up until becoming a professor at CSU. He held many previous positions and appointments including being the director for the National Center for Atmospheric Research (NCAR),  and a senior scientist at the Global Climate Dynamics (GCD) lab.

10 May 2024 | CIRA Commons

What's Brewing

We were excited to host our speaker, Minh Pham! Minh Phan is a Public Affairs Specialist for FEMA region 8 in Denver. The first portion of the presentation will center on an introduction to FEMA and emergency management while highlighting notable recent disasters. Minh will then discuss his career trajectory to working at FEMA and highlight how people looking for career opportunities can combine their passions to develop their own path.

30 April 2024 | New Belgium Brewing

Ice Cream Social

Our graduate students taking a little time off of work with a spontaneous ice cream and popsicle day! It was warm out at 76 degrees, which is something we hadn't felt in months!

12 April 2024 | ATS Hill

Little Shop of Physics

Our ATS graduate students came together to present and teach the community about atmospheric science topics! The kids loved it!

24 February 2024 | Lory Student Center

Winter Welcome Party

Hopefully you all had a relaxing holiday! We welcomed all the students back with hot chocolate -- appropriate for this chilly winter weather. The rest of the day was spent yappin' and catchin' up!

16 January 2024 | ATS Main Community Space