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Colorado State University Forecasters Predict Above-Average 2010 Hurricane Season

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The Colorado State University forecast team predicts an above-average 2010 Atlantic basin hurricane season based on the premise that El Niño conditions will dissipate by this summer and that anomalously warm tropical Atlantic sea surface temperatures will persist. Phil Klotzbach, lead forecaster on the CSU Hurricane Forecast Team.

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Study finds methane leaks from three large US natural gas fields in line with EPA estimates

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CIRES is a partnership of NOAA and the University of Colorado Boulder. Where leak rates are low, the comparison favors natural gas. The Colorado, Utah and California basins combined produce less than 3% of all US natural gas—much less than the eastern basins. tons (33,000 lbs) per hour, or 0.18-0.41%

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Craig Partridge Is Still Working to Improve Internet Traffic

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Later that year he joined Colorado State University in Fort Collins, as chair of its department of computer science. Our focus at Colorado State is on the students already on campus. By comparison, in industry I knew I had a team I could give a broad description to and get the right thing the first time.

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Study finds rising temperatures increase risk of unhealthy ozone levels absent sharp cuts in precursors

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FRAPPÉ is a collaborative effort between the Colorado Department of Public Health and the Environment, the University of Colorado and Colorado State University, UC Berkeley, and other university collaborators, local projects and agencies including local school districts, NASA, NOAA, and NCAR. Supercomputing.

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NREL develops novel method to produce renewable acrylonitrile; carbon fibers from renewable biomass

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Based on yields alone, this is a very important discovery: in comparison, after six decades of commercial-scale improvements and optimization, the traditional acrylonitrile production process achieves yields of approximately 80%–83%. Yet none have been able to compete with the traditional process in terms of cost and yield.

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Researchers modify camelina to produce highest levels yet in transgenic plant oil of novel lipid acetyl-TAG; biofuel and industrial use

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Comparison of typical plant triacylglycerol structure with acetyl-triacylglycerol. It also can be rotated with wheat and could become a biofuel crop for semi-arid regions, including western Kansas and Colorado. Some of these modified structures have added-value properties that are currently used in a range of industrial applications.

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NOAA, partners find about 98% decline in VOCs concentrations in LA Basin over last 50 years despite 3x increase in use of gasoline and diesel

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Cooperative Institute for Research in Environmental Sciences (CIRES) at the University of Colorado Boulder. A comparison with London found that VOC mixing ratios in 2008 are at about the same level in both cities, but in London a much stronger decrease from higher mixing ratios in 1998 has led to the current mixing ratios.