Press Releases

NREL news stories and press releases: Current 2006 2005 2004 2003

 

12.17.2007 - Nature Conservancy and NREL Associate Scientist Barry Baker Worries About Water as Chinese Glacier Retreats.
Relate Links: www.npr.org

12.13.2007 - Book Release from Kathy Galvin, Robin Reid, Roy Behnke and Tom Hobbs--“Fragmentation in Semi-Arid and Arid landscapes.”
Relate Links: Story

12.12.2007 - USGS & NREL Researcher Jill Baron contributes to study on Nitrogen affecting Rocky Mountain National Park.
Relate Links: Story

11.28.2007 - Robin Reid named new director of the Center for Collaborative Conservation
Relate Links: Story

11.26.2007 - Dr. Keith Paustian is named Soil Science Society of America Fellow
Relate Links: Story

10.31.2007 - Keith Paustian participant in grants from biofuels collaboration
Relate Links: Story

10.12.2007 - COLORADO STATE UNIVERSITY SCIENTISTS INVOLVED IN IPCC - 2007 RECIPIENT OF NOBEL PEACE PRIZE
Relate Links: Story
Relate Links: http://nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/peace/laureates/2007/press.html

10.12.2007 - Former NREL director Jim Gibson passes away.
Related Link: Jim_Gibson.pdf

10.11.2007 - Extreme Earth Research, From the Bottom Up. "NREL scientists join other CSU researchers as “leaders in polar research and now in the International Polar Year, are collaborating with colleagues from around the world on scientific research in the Arctic and Antarctic," states Diana Wall (Biology/NREL).
Related Links: http://welcome.colostate.edu/index.asp?url=programs_polar_year

10.9.2007 - Dr. Matt Wallenstein receives Univ. of California, Santa Barbara sub-contract funding on an NSF IPY research grant. 
Related Links: http://www.greeleytrib.com/article/20071008/NEWS/71008004

10.2.2007 - Study, by Paron & Ojima reveals that U.S. Great Plains' historical stability vulnerable to rising energy prices and biofuels demand 
Related Links: Story
http://www.icpsr.umich.edu/PLAINS/papers.html
http://northdenvernews.com/content/view/994/2/
http://newsinfo.colostate.edu/index.asp?url=news_item_display&news_item_id=515810313

10.1.2007 - PHD candidate, Shauna Burnsilver, has won the Lourdes Arizpe Award, given biennially by the Environment and Anthropology section of the American Anthropological Association for her dissertation research "Pathways of Continuity and Change: Diversification, Intensification and Mobility in Maasailand". She will receive the award at the annual meeting of the American Anthropological Association in Washington, DC, in November.
Related Links: http://www.anthrosource.net/doi/abs/10.1525/an.2007.48.8.27.2

9.24.2007 - Diana Wall hosts conference: "Antarctic marine and terrestrial ecosystem scientists meet at Colorado State "
Related Links: Story

9.24.2007 - Bill Parton hosts conference: "Net Greenhouse Gas Balance for BioFuel Cropping Systems"
Related Links: http://northdenvernews.com/content/view/994/2/

9.06.2007 - Dr. Bill Parton named American Geophysical Union Fellow
Related Links: Story

7.02.2007 -Parton & Del Grosso find significant greenhouse gas reductions with biofuel crop systems
Related Links: Story

7.02.2007 -NREL resleases first statewide open space inventory released by CSU and Great Outdoors Colorado
Related Links: Story

6.08.2007 - NREL scientist, Niall Hanan awarded Fulbright Scholarship to research and teach in Mali, Africa
Related Links: Story

5.08.2007 - UVB scientists, Jim Slusser, study sun's radiation to track pollution sources
Related Links: Story

4.23.2007 - Global warming will have mixed effects on eastern Colorado's grasslands
Related Links: Story

1.28.2007 -Parton co-author in Science Magazine article on nitrogen release from rotting leaf litter
Related Links: Story

1.1.2007 - Greg Newman- NREL Research Associate: summits 22,840ft Cerro Aconcagua
Related Links: Colorado State Magazine Spring 2007