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Featured Research Stories
College of Agricultural Sciences
Soil microbes could produce additional greenhouse gas emissions
CSU research shows soil microorganisms could produce previously uncounted greenhouse gas emissions from thawing permafrost
Walter Scott, Jr. College of Engineering
CSU hurricane expert rates Hollywood storm scenes
The Day After Tomorrow. The Perfect Storm. How real are the storms in some of Hollywood’s most popular movies Alex DesRosiers, a hurricane researcher at Colorado State University in the Department of Atmospheric Science, has the answers.