Cooperative Institute for Research in Environmental Sciences

Innovative Research Program Projects, 2003

proposals submitted: 24
amount allocated: $121,000

DOES PETROCHEMICAL ETHYLENE ENHANCE THE RELEASE OF REACTIVE VOCS BY URBAN VEGETATION?. Joost de Gouw (NOAA/AL) and Ray Fall (Chemistry) are exploring unexpected anthropogenic ethylene emissions and testing their combined stimulation of plant growth and contribution to photochemical air pollution.

WEB-BASED GEOSPATIAL DATA APPLICATIONS FOR ATMOSPHERIC FIELD MISSIONS. Dan Kowal and John Cartwright (NGDC) are aplying web-based relational database management system to present field data in a GIS format to enhance data synthesis and presentation between laboratories that will become a resource available to others.

USING ¹⁴CO₂ TO MEASURE THE FOSSIL FUEL COMBUSTION COMPONENT OF ATMOSPHERIC CO₂. John Miller and Pieter Tans (CMDL) with Scott Lehman (INSTAAR) are tracking carbon-14 to determine fossil fuel combustion fraction on local scales with weekly time resolution.

CAN DIRECTIONAL SEISMIC NOISE BE USED TO HINDCAST OCEAN WAVES? Vera Schulte-Pelkum (CIRES/Geology), Andy Moore (CIRES/PAOS, John Wahr (CIRES/Physics) and Paul Earle (USGS) are testing a novel method of extracting ocean swell correlations from existing seismic data that could be a proxy for historical climate variation.

INITIAL ASSESSMENT OF WILDFIRE, BLOWDOWN, AND SALVAGE-LOGGING EFFECTS ON BIOGEOCHEMICAL CYCLING AND REGENERATION DYNAMICS IN ROUTT NATIONAL FOREST, COLORADO. Carol Wessman and Christina Rumbaitis-del Rio (EPOB/CIRES) are taking advantage of the 1997 blowdown, subsequent salvage logging, and recent forest fires to study the effects of multiple stresses on forest recovery.