Projects
The projects within the CIRES portfolio of energy-environment research transcend multiple categories. Current energy-related research at CIRES falls within 6 major topics, outlined below.
Air Quality and Greenhouse gas emissions
Theme Contact: Joost de Gouw (joost.degouw@noaa.gov) and Gabrielle Petron (gabrielle.petron@noaa.gov)
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Wintertime ozone formation in a Western oil and gas basin
Project Contacts: Steve Brown (Steven.S.Brown@noaa.gov), Jim Roberts (james.m.roberts@noaa.gov) and Russell Schnell (russell.c.schnell@noaa.gov)
Source signature of volatile organic compounds from oil and natural gas operations in northeastern Colorado
Project Contact: Gabrielle Petron (gabrielle.petron@noaa.gov) and Jessica Gilman (jessica.gilman@noaa.gov)
Laboratory studies on Secondary organic aerosol formation from crude oil vapors
Project Contact: Rui Li (Rui.Li@noaa.gov)
NOAA Mobile Laboratory Measures Oil and Gas Emissions
Project Contact: Gabrielle Petron (gabrielle.petron@noaa.gov), Steve Brown (Steven.S.Brown@noaa.gov), and Carsten Warneke(carsten.warneke@noaa.gov)
Greenhouse gas emissions associated with oil and natural gas extraction
Project Contact: Gabrielle Petron (gabrielle.petron@noaa.gov) and Colm Sweeney (Colm.Sweeney@noaa.gov)
Biofuels & Biomass
Theme contact: Carsten Warneke(carsten.warneke@noaa.gov)
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Emissions of reactive trace gases from biofuel crops
Project Contact: Martin Graus (martin.graus@noaa.gov)
Water
Theme contact: Kristen Averyt (kristen.averyt@colorado.edu)
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Sectoral Vulnerabilities to Changing Water Resources: Current and Future Tradeoffs between Supply and Demand in the Conterminous U.S.
Project Contact: James Meldrum (james.meldrum@colorado.edu)
Land Use
Theme contact: Carol Wessman (carol.wessman@colorado.edu)
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Canada's Oil Sands and The New Environmental Monitoring Program
Project Contact: Shao-Meng Li (shao-meng.li@ec.gc.ca)
Energy Extraction and Production
Theme contact: Anne Sheehan (Anne.Sheehan@colorado.edu)
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Fluid Injection Induced Seismicity: Evidence from two case studies
Project Contact: Matthew Weingarten (matthew.weingarten@colorado.edu)
Energy Policy
Theme contact: Roger Pielke, Jr. (pielke@cires.colorado.edu)
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