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Dr. Keith Paustian participants in four grants from biofuels collaboration
 A joint center of Colorado State University, the Colorado School of Mines, the University of Colorado at Boulder, and the National Renewable Energy Laboratory, and sponsored by industry, has announced $500,000 in grants to 10 teams pursuing renewable energy research ranging from the solar conversion of plant material for fuels to genetic crop engineering.
- Professor Keith Paustian, on the faculty of the Department of Soil and Crop Sciences and a research scientist at the Natural Resource Ecology Laboratory, is collaborating on a project led by the Colorado School of Mines on the technological and economic analysis of a proposed thermochemical plant to produce biofuels from cellulose.
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Dr. Gavlin presents at series: ChangingClimates @ Colorado State University - The Human Costs
 Kathleen Galvin is Professor and Chair of the Department of Anthropology and Senior Research Scientist at the Natural Resource Ecology Laboratory. She is an Advising Faculty member for the Department of Sociology and the Graduate Degree Program in Ecology at CSU. Trained as a biological anthropologist, she has conducted interdisciplinary human ecological research in Africa for the past 20 years, investigating pastoral land use, conservation, climate variability and resilience and adaptation strategies of these populations.
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Director John Moore helps develope FEScUE multi-departmental undergraduate program
 The Flexible and Extendable Scientific Undergraduate Experience, or FEScUE, will engage undergraduate students and faculty in multiple academic departments at Colorado State by providing scholarships and summer stipends to support undergraduate research.
The principal investigators of the project and their respective departments are Simon Tavener, mathematics; Mike Antolin, biology; Don Estep, mathematics and statistics; John Moore, NREL; and Colleen Webb, biology.
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NREL scientists played key roles in IPCC - Nobel Peace Prize recipient in 2007
Colorado State University scientists have been closely involved in the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, which shared the Nobel Peace Prize announced on Oct. 12.
Other CSU contributors include Keith Paustian, Stephen Ogle and Rich Conant with the Natural Resource Ecology Laboratory. Paustian and Ogle served as Coordinating Lead Author and Lead Authors, respectively, on the IPCC National Greenhouse Gas Inventory Guidelines and Ogle was the Lead Author on a chapter dealing with greenhouse gas mitigation options in agriculture in the 4th Assessment Report. Conant and Paustian served as Lead Authors for a carbon cycle report, commissioned to review the status of carbon cycle science.
Beth Holland, NREL research scientist, was a Lead and Contributing Author of the IPCC 3rd Assessment Report, a Lead Author of the 4th Assessment Report and a participant in the IPCC special meeting on terrestrial carbon stocks. Doug Fox, senior research scientist, emeritus at the Cooperative Institute for Research in the Atmosphere, was the Coordinating Lead Author for the "Impacts of Climate Change on Mountain Ecosystems Chapter" in the IPCC 1995 Assessment.
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James 'Jim' H. Gibson, former Dir. of the Natural Resource Ecology Laboratory, died Oct. 10, 2007
James 'Jim' H. Gibson of Loveland died Oct. 10, 2007, at the Hospice Care Center at McKee Medical Center. He was born May 3, 1930, in Morgantown, W.V., to John A. and Eleanor (Reynolds) Gibson. Jim lived in Loveland since 2002, moving there from Fort Collins where he lived for almost 40 years.
Jim's tenure as the Director of the Natural Resource Ecology Laboratory (NREL) from 1973-1984, and his leadership with the National Atmospheric Deposition Program and the UV-B Monitoring and Research Program were marked by the highest degree of professionalism, growth and stability.
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