Ashley Piccone
News InternAshley is a PhD student in Astronomy and Physics at UW. She loves to communicate science and does so with WPM, on the Astrobites blog, and through outreach events. She was born in Colorado and got her BS in Engineering Physics at Colorado School of Mines. Ashley loves hiking and backpacking during Wyoming days and the clear starry skies at night!
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Dinosaur bones are often scattered around, so it's important to figure out what bones belong to the same animal. That's difficult to do, but a new method…
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This winter season has been a deadly one for avalanches. Many of those avalanches were caused by a single type of snow condition known as a deep…
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Listen to the full show here. Pandemic Highlights Need For More Meatpacking Capacity StatewideEven though Wyoming has twice as many cattle as people, the…
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Communicating science is important, especially when it saves lives like in the COVID-19 pandemic. But it's difficult to do when words mean different…
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New research suggests that certain rocks in Wyoming might be there because of dinosaur migration.Joshua Malone, a geoscience researcher at the University…
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Listen to the full show here. Lawmakers Raise Study Taking Grim Outlook On Biden Climate Plans - But Who's Behind It? A new investigation between Wyoming…
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Fairy rings are all around Wyoming, so it's possible you have seen them without noticing - they look like rings of extra-green grass or mushrooms. The…
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Cement production makes up eight percent of man-made carbon emissions. But a new technology developed by the University of California, Los Angeles might…
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A new USDA Forest Service and Colorado State Forest Service survey finds that spruce beetles continue to be the most damaging pest in Rocky Mountain…
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Researchers are trying to understand the lifecycle of the Mormon cricket—a common pest in the Rocky Mountains.It doesn't fly, but it does walk in large…