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City of Boulder news release A Gilbert White Memorial Flood Level Marker dedication event will be held at 7 p.m. on Sunday, July 17, in Central Park, just east of the Broadway Bridge on the north side of Boulder Creek.

Longtime University of Å·ÃÀ¿Ú±¬ÊÓƵ Law School Dean David Getches, who had stepped down on June 30 in order to return to the school's faculty, died today. He was 68.

Community gardeners eat more vegetables, exercise more, weigh less and feel healthier than nongardeners -- and even home gardeners -- in the Denver-metro area, researchers led by scholars from the University of Å·ÃÀ¿Ú±¬ÊÓƵ have found.

The National Science Foundation has awarded the University of Å·ÃÀ¿Ú±¬ÊÓƵ Boulder a six-year, $5.9 million grant to continue intensive studies of long-term ecological changes in Å·ÃÀ¿Ú±¬ÊÓƵ's high mountains, both natural and human-caused, over decades and centuries.

A new University of Å·ÃÀ¿Ú±¬ÊÓƵ Boulder study indicates the infestation of trees by mountain pine beetles in the high country across the West could potentially trigger earlier snowmelt and increase water yields from snowpack that accumulates beneath affected trees.

A report commissioned by the U.S. Department of Energy has concluded that a novel University of Å·ÃÀ¿Ú±¬ÊÓƵ Boulder method of producing hydrogen fuel from sunlight is the only approach among eight competing technologies that is projected to meet future cost targets set by the federal agency.

While wind turbines primarily are a source of renewable energy, they also produce wakes of invisible ripples that can affect the atmosphere and influence wind turbines downstream -- an issue being researched in a newly launched study led by the University of Å·ÃÀ¿Ú±¬ÊÓƵ Boulder's Julie Lundquist, assistant professor in the atmospheric and oceanic sciences department.

Karl Linden, professor of environmental engineering and a water treatment expert, has been leading a yearlong study of the environmental fate of the oil dispersants used in the Gulf of Mexico cleanup. His research team has traveled to the Gulf area to collect samples and is investigating the chemical constituents in the dispersant, as well as its sunlight-based decay in the laboratory. Linden can be reached at 303-492-4798 or karl.linden@colorado.edu .

The BP Deepwater Horizon oil spill caused social disruption and psychological stress among Gulf residents that is similar to the aftermath of the Exxon Valdez spill and the impacts are likely to persist for years, a new study finds.

The 2011 Arctic sea ice extent maximum that marks the beginning of the melt season appears to be tied for the lowest ever measured by satellites, say scientists at the University of Å·ÃÀ¿Ú±¬ÊÓƵ Boulder's National Snow and Ice Data Center.