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To gather information that will allow Colorado to manage bluehead sucker, flannelmouth sucker and roundtail chub in a way that will enhance their current range and minimize the probability of listing under the Endangered Species Act.

Despite its potential, research is often critiqued for being not as usable for decision making in practice. This guide provides tangible, tested ways for making science more usable based on our experience in the Western Water Assessment as well as other input. It also highlights examples of researchers at CU Boulder who have produced usable research to serve practical needs.

This report describes research funded in collaboration with NOAA's cooperative agreement and the CIRA Joint Institute contract period July 1, 2001 through June 30, 2010. The report is meant to be an overview of the reporting period 2001/02 through 2009/10.

Dr. Marina Singh, a research scientist with a Minnesota pharmaceutical company, is sent to Brazil to track down her former mentor, Dr. Annick Swenson, who seems to have all but disappeared in the Amazon while working on what is destined to be an extremely valuable new drug, the development of which has already cost the company a fortune. Nothing about Marina's assignment is easy: not only does no one know where Dr. Swenson is, but the last person...