As wildfires and rising temperatures reshape Colorado’s forests, researchers at CSU’s Colorado Forest Restoration Institute are exploring what it will take to restore them. Featured in Science, their research examines whether planting trees adapted to warmer conditions could help forests survive in a changing climate.

The Robert E. Horton Medal is presented annually to one honoree by AGU and recognizes a recipient’s sustained body of work and resulting publications, as well as their scientific impact on the field, service to the field and international reputation.

Researchers in the Department of Ecosystem Science and Sustainability, ESS, have built a new tool called CSUFlow25 which is a free, publicly available web application that lets anyone drop a pin on a Colorado stream and get a statistically modeled estimate of how that stream flows across the year, no gauge or field visit required.

Talia Speaker, a Warner College Conservation Leadership alumna, led the first worldwide review of emerging technologies used to study animal movement.

A research team led by Colorado State University Professor George Wittemyer reunited a 4-month-old elephant calf with her family after she wandered into a tourist camp alone. The fieldwork that allowed them to identify the wayward calf and reunite her with her family is critical to the conservation of African elephants.