Researchers walk the streets of New York City taking air quality readings from a backpack

Video: CIRES researchers tackle air quality from the streets of New York

Oct. 20, 2023

Follow CIRES scientist Audrey Gaudel and her collaborators as they walk the streets of New York City taking detailed readings of air pollutants from a simple backpack.

CIRES team receiving an award at the Denver Museum of Nature & Science

CIRES team receives governor’s award

Oct. 19, 2023

The We Are Water team at CU ºù«ÍÞÊÓƵ’s Cooperative Institute for Research in Environmental Sciences received a governor’s award through CO-LABS, part of an event recognizing high-impact research across Colorado.

Experts in a wildfire workshop

Wildfire workshop highlights CU ºù«ÍÞÊÓƵ expertise, leadership

Sept. 21, 2023

More than 50 policymakers, researchers, faculty and graduate students recently participated in the first-ever Wildland Urban Interface & Wildfire Workshop.

Two researchers on a beach in Madagascar

Early-career scientist gains immersive field experiences as part of NSF-funded program

Sept. 5, 2023

Naya O'Reilly, a scuba diver and environmental studies doctoral student, spent the summer in Madagascar studying sustainable oceans as part of a fellowship with the NSF-funded Global Sustainability Scholars.

Khosro Ghobadi-Far

CU ºù«ÍÞÊÓƵ, CIRES welcome new geodesist Khosro Ghobadi-Far

Aug. 25, 2023

Engineering faculty member and CIRES Fellow Khosro Ghobadi-Far uses sophisticated satellite data to understand Earth's evolving climate and water cycles.

Polar Postdoc Leadership Workshop participants posing for group photo

Next generation of polar scientists work toward more inclusive future

July 5, 2023

After the week-long Polar Postdoc Leadership Workshop, led by the Polar Science Early Career Community Office, participants not only grew their skills and knowledge—they bonded over a shared vision to make the polar sciences more inclusive and welcoming and identified how they can support and lead their vision.

Antarctica's George VI Ice Shelf

Antarctic ice shelves see only minor changes in surface melt since 1980

June 23, 2023

Antarctic ice shelves have experienced only minor changes in surface melt rates over the past four decades, unlike the rapid increase in surface melt experienced by Greenland’s glaciers during the same time period, according to new CU-led research.

doctoral students outside the Rocky Mountain Biological Laboratory

Following the pandemic, CIRES students venture out

June 14, 2023

One professor decided it was time to get her doctoral students in environmental science real-life experience by taking them on a four-day field trip to a remote research station up high in Colorado’s mountains.

aerial view of a lake

Satellites reveal widespread decline in global lake water storage

May 26, 2023

More than half of the lakes around the world are losing water. The Cooperative Institute for Research in Environmental Sciences at CU ºù«ÍÞÊÓƵ reconstructed lake levels from the past 30 years, determining that climate change, human consumption and sedimentation are the reasons for the decline.

researcher in lab

Machine learning helps scientists identify the environmental preferences of microbes

May 2, 2023

Researchers have figured out a way to predict bacteria’s environmental pH preferences from a quick look at their genomes, using machine learning. Led by experts at CU ºù«ÍÞÊÓƵ, the new approach promises to help guide ecological restoration efforts, agriculture and even the development of health-related probiotics.

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