Six graduate students from Warner College of Natural Resources recently completed two years of research on biological and ecological features of the Piceance Basin in northwestern Colorado, thanks to a USD $1 million grant from Chevron.
Chevron’s Michael DeBerry, who served as the company’s area manager until early 2016, said the partnership with Colorado State University was created to help expand Chevron’s understanding of the ecology in the Piceance Basin and to identify opportunities that will enable the company to improve upon and manage the land in a sustainable way.
“We operate in unique environmental settings,” said DeBerry, pointing as an example to Chevron’s work on Barrow Island in Australia, where the company has constructed a large liquefied natural gas processing plant. “Our company’s core values include protecting and preserving the environment we’re blessed to work in,” he said.