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The Cooperative Institute for Research in Environmental Sciences (CIRES) at CU Boulder is a world leader in environmental research. We've partnered with NOAA since 1967. https://cires.colorado.edu/
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An open letter to our federal colleagues and collaborators from CIRES Director Waleed Abdalati: cires.colorado.edu/news/cires-s...
"While the value of what you do may not be obvious to some, it benefits all. Your work is so important, and it is a true privilege being on the same team as you."
"While the value of what you do may not be obvious to some, it benefits all. Your work is so important, and it is a true privilege being on the same team as you."
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JUST IN: The 2025 Atlantic #HurricaneSeason ends on Nov. 30 with 13 named storms, including 5 hurricanes, of which 4 intensified to be major hurricanes.
Find our news release, images and wrapup video at: noaa.gov/news-release...
@nws.noaa.gov
Find our news release, images and wrapup video at: noaa.gov/news-release...
@nws.noaa.gov
November 25, 2025 at 2:22 PM
JUST IN: The 2025 Atlantic #HurricaneSeason ends on Nov. 30 with 13 named storms, including 5 hurricanes, of which 4 intensified to be major hurricanes.
Find our news release, images and wrapup video at: noaa.gov/news-release...
@nws.noaa.gov
Find our news release, images and wrapup video at: noaa.gov/news-release...
@nws.noaa.gov
New research: Understanding plant responses in a warming world will be crucial for predicting how alpine ecosystems may function. Read about the @cu-esiil.bsky.social study at this link. buff.ly/MjRR0xv #lessonsinbiology #alpineplants #climate
November 24, 2025 at 7:01 PM
New research: Understanding plant responses in a warming world will be crucial for predicting how alpine ecosystems may function. Read about the @cu-esiil.bsky.social study at this link. buff.ly/MjRR0xv #lessonsinbiology #alpineplants #climate
Check out this new coloring book featuring @cires.colorado.edu @alibanwell.bsky.social. What an inspiring and fun project. #STEM #womeninscience #superstars
Excited to be featured in this new #STEM Super Stars colouring book: www.amazon.com/dp/B0G2YSJ9XW ❄️ 🧪
@cires.colorado.edu @cpom-uk.bsky.social @protectourwinters.bsky.social
@cires.colorado.edu @cpom-uk.bsky.social @protectourwinters.bsky.social
November 21, 2025 at 10:52 PM
Check out this new coloring book featuring @cires.colorado.edu @alibanwell.bsky.social. What an inspiring and fun project. #STEM #womeninscience #superstars
Fieldwork can be gruelling and tough — but even with the challenges, CIRES scientists get to experience some amazing views. Like this one, near a weather station at Swiss Camp in Greenland in 2010. #FieldworkFriday #PhotoFriday
📸: Nicolas Bayou/CIRES alum
📸: Nicolas Bayou/CIRES alum
November 21, 2025 at 5:03 PM
Fieldwork can be gruelling and tough — but even with the challenges, CIRES scientists get to experience some amazing views. Like this one, near a weather station at Swiss Camp in Greenland in 2010. #FieldworkFriday #PhotoFriday
📸: Nicolas Bayou/CIRES alum
📸: Nicolas Bayou/CIRES alum
Boycoff shared about his experience, reflections on COP30 and his perspective on what it looked like without U.S. representatives at the table. #climate #COP30 #sustainability #climatechange
November 21, 2025 at 4:03 PM
Boycoff shared about his experience, reflections on COP30 and his perspective on what it looked like without U.S. representatives at the table. #climate #COP30 #sustainability #climatechange
At COP30 in Belém, Brazil, CU Boulder Today sat down with Max Boykoff, CIRES Fellow and executive faculty director of the Buckley Center for Sustainability Education at CU Boulder. buff.ly/kFQ4V0A
November 21, 2025 at 4:03 PM
At COP30 in Belém, Brazil, CU Boulder Today sat down with Max Boykoff, CIRES Fellow and executive faculty director of the Buckley Center for Sustainability Education at CU Boulder. buff.ly/kFQ4V0A
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Applications are open for the 2026–27 SE CASC Global Change Research Fellows! 🌿🎓
Includes a stipend, tuition/health coverage, a field intensive, and a supportive cohort experience.
⏱️ Deadline: Jan 12, 2026. Learn more & apply: https://loom.ly/I1eFeD4
Includes a stipend, tuition/health coverage, a field intensive, and a supportive cohort experience.
⏱️ Deadline: Jan 12, 2026. Learn more & apply: https://loom.ly/I1eFeD4
November 20, 2025 at 5:04 PM
Applications are open for the 2026–27 SE CASC Global Change Research Fellows! 🌿🎓
Includes a stipend, tuition/health coverage, a field intensive, and a supportive cohort experience.
⏱️ Deadline: Jan 12, 2026. Learn more & apply: https://loom.ly/I1eFeD4
Includes a stipend, tuition/health coverage, a field intensive, and a supportive cohort experience.
⏱️ Deadline: Jan 12, 2026. Learn more & apply: https://loom.ly/I1eFeD4
The exhibit was built by students at the University of Colorado Boulder: Kate Rooney, Sylvia Robles, Kaia Schiff, and Oliver Murray, and led by Tory Nau from @cires.ceee. wearewater.colorado.edu #alamosa #wearewater #water #alamosa #sanluisvalley
We are Water | We Are Water
With support from rural communities and their libraries, We are Water creates a place to meet and share stories about water and to explore and learn about water together.
wearewater.colorado.edu
November 20, 2025 at 5:23 PM
The exhibit was built by students at the University of Colorado Boulder: Kate Rooney, Sylvia Robles, Kaia Schiff, and Oliver Murray, and led by Tory Nau from @cires.ceee. wearewater.colorado.edu #alamosa #wearewater #water #alamosa #sanluisvalley
We are Water is a collaboration between scientists, Indigenous science educators, learning researchers, informal educators, and library staff.
We are Water | We Are Water
With support from rural communities and their libraries, We are Water creates a place to meet and share stories about water and to explore and learn about water together.
wearewater.colorado.edu
November 20, 2025 at 5:23 PM
We are Water is a collaboration between scientists, Indigenous science educators, learning researchers, informal educators, and library staff.
On Saturday, November 22, the San Luis Valley in southern Colorado will celebrate the grand opening of a new permanent exhibit, "We are Water." The exhibit, located at the Alamosa Public Library, is designed to spark conversations about the role water plays in community well-being.
November 20, 2025 at 5:23 PM
On Saturday, November 22, the San Luis Valley in southern Colorado will celebrate the grand opening of a new permanent exhibit, "We are Water." The exhibit, located at the Alamosa Public Library, is designed to spark conversations about the role water plays in community well-being.
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As the West warms, wildfires are burning at higher elevations and charring watersheds where the snowpack accumulates. New research has found that snow is melting earlier in burned areas. I wrote about the study—and the implications for the water supply and ecosystems.
waterdesk.org/2025/11/in-b...
waterdesk.org/2025/11/in-b...
In burned forests, the West’s snowpack is melting earlier
As blazes expand to higher elevations, the impacts cascade downstream
waterdesk.org
November 20, 2025 at 5:13 PM
As the West warms, wildfires are burning at higher elevations and charring watersheds where the snowpack accumulates. New research has found that snow is melting earlier in burned areas. I wrote about the study—and the implications for the water supply and ecosystems.
waterdesk.org/2025/11/in-b...
waterdesk.org/2025/11/in-b...
The research was published on November 17. pubs.geoscienceworld.org/gsa/books/ed...
Late Cretaceous dynamics of the “Mojave Waistland,” California, USA
ABSTRACT. The Mojave Desert and surroundings occupy the narrowest segment of the retroarc part of the Late Cretaceous Cordilleran orogen. This chapter expl
pubs.geoscienceworld.org
November 18, 2025 at 4:16 PM
The research was published on November 17. pubs.geoscienceworld.org/gsa/books/ed...
Published yesterday! pubs.geoscienceworld.org/gsa/books/ed...
Late Cretaceous dynamics of the “Mojave Waistland,” California, USA
ABSTRACT. The Mojave Desert and surroundings occupy the narrowest segment of the retroarc part of the Late Cretaceous Cordilleran orogen. This chapter expl
pubs.geoscienceworld.org
November 18, 2025 at 4:14 PM
Published yesterday! pubs.geoscienceworld.org/gsa/books/ed...
“These changes matter,” he says. “They alter the temperature gradient between the tropics and poles, which drives global weather. Even if you never go to the polar regions, it affects the storms you experience.” buff.ly/EywubbP
Meet the scientist who stumbled into the cold—and stayed
John Cassano, professor of atmospheric and oceanic sciences at CU Boulder, lead scientist at the National Snow and Ice Data Center and fellow at CIRES, recently
www.colorado.edu
November 18, 2025 at 4:01 PM
“These changes matter,” he says. “They alter the temperature gradient between the tropics and poles, which drives global weather. Even if you never go to the polar regions, it affects the storms you experience.” buff.ly/EywubbP
Cassano has witnessed dramatic changes in three decades of research. Arctic sea ice has declined about 40 percent in recent decades. Antarctic sea ice, once at record highs, now hovers at record lows. Ice shelves are collapsing.
Meet the scientist who stumbled into the cold—and stayed
John Cassano, professor of atmospheric and oceanic sciences at CU Boulder, lead scientist at the National Snow and Ice Data Center and fellow at CIRES, recently
www.colorado.edu
November 18, 2025 at 4:01 PM
Cassano has witnessed dramatic changes in three decades of research. Arctic sea ice has declined about 40 percent in recent decades. Antarctic sea ice, once at record highs, now hovers at record lows. Ice shelves are collapsing.
Meet the scientist who stumbled into the cold--and stayed. John Cassano, professor of atmospheric and oceanic sciences @colorado.edu, lead scientist at the @NSIDC.bsky.social, and CIRES Fellow, recently returned from his 15th research trip to Antarctica
Meet the scientist who stumbled into the cold—and stayed
John Cassano, professor of atmospheric and oceanic sciences at CU Boulder, lead scientist at the National Snow and Ice Data Center and fellow at CIRES, recently
www.colorado.edu
November 18, 2025 at 4:01 PM
Meet the scientist who stumbled into the cold--and stayed. John Cassano, professor of atmospheric and oceanic sciences @colorado.edu, lead scientist at the @NSIDC.bsky.social, and CIRES Fellow, recently returned from his 15th research trip to Antarctica
The belt was squeezed until it became unstable, overheated, and eventually collapsed, creating rocks known as schists. The gist of the schist is the southwest U.S. is full of interesting geology!
#Geology #EarthScience #Tectonics #lessonsingeology
#Geology #EarthScience #Tectonics #lessonsingeology
November 17, 2025 at 7:02 PM
The belt was squeezed until it became unstable, overheated, and eventually collapsed, creating rocks known as schists. The gist of the schist is the southwest U.S. is full of interesting geology!
#Geology #EarthScience #Tectonics #lessonsingeology
#Geology #EarthScience #Tectonics #lessonsingeology
Did you know mountains can sometimes collapse under their own weight? A CIRES scientist found new evidence of this happening in what is now the Mojave Desert. As tectonic plates collided, the crust compressed into a narrow belt.
November 17, 2025 at 7:02 PM
Did you know mountains can sometimes collapse under their own weight? A CIRES scientist found new evidence of this happening in what is now the Mojave Desert. As tectonic plates collided, the crust compressed into a narrow belt.
'FoUSMO’ and other ongoing climate struggles by Max Boykoff, CIRES Fellow. Boulder Daily Camera Open Access: buff.ly/TwZ3Iog #climate #COP30 #CIRES #CUBoulder
Boykoff: ‘FoUSMO’ and other ongoing climate struggles
The Trump administration declined to send any U.S. delegates to the UN’s 30th Conference of the Parties. Thus, America has missed out on an otherwise global event. The chair with the UNITED S…
www.dailycamera.com
November 17, 2025 at 4:00 PM
'FoUSMO’ and other ongoing climate struggles by Max Boykoff, CIRES Fellow. Boulder Daily Camera Open Access: buff.ly/TwZ3Iog #climate #COP30 #CIRES #CUBoulder
CIRES scientists in NOAA’s National Center for Environmental Information calibrate and develop data products for instruments like SUVI that monitor the solar atmosphere. Their work helps forecasters better predict and mitigate the effects of solar flares and other phenomena on Earth.
November 14, 2025 at 9:51 PM
CIRES scientists in NOAA’s National Center for Environmental Information calibrate and develop data products for instruments like SUVI that monitor the solar atmosphere. Their work helps forecasters better predict and mitigate the effects of solar flares and other phenomena on Earth.
The imagery in this video came from the Solar Ultraviolet Imager (SUVI), a telescope aboard the GOES-19 satellite that monitors the Sun in the extreme ultraviolet wavelength range.
November 14, 2025 at 9:51 PM
The imagery in this video came from the Solar Ultraviolet Imager (SUVI), a telescope aboard the GOES-19 satellite that monitors the Sun in the extreme ultraviolet wavelength range.
This video shows three X-class solar flares (strong emissions of electromagnetic radiation) on the Sun on November 9, 10, and 11. The associated coronal mass ejections (streams of hot solar plasma) streaming towards Earth disrupted Earth's magnetosphere and triggered auroras as far south as Florida.
November 14, 2025 at 9:51 PM
This video shows three X-class solar flares (strong emissions of electromagnetic radiation) on the Sun on November 9, 10, and 11. The associated coronal mass ejections (streams of hot solar plasma) streaming towards Earth disrupted Earth's magnetosphere and triggered auroras as far south as Florida.
Moving people and equipment during fieldwork can be difficult during the best of times. For the MOSAiC team, inclement weather, polar night, and their location directly on the sea ice provided unique challenges for transportation. #FieldworkFriday
📸: Matthew Shupe/CIRES
📸: Matthew Shupe/CIRES
November 14, 2025 at 5:05 PM
Moving people and equipment during fieldwork can be difficult during the best of times. For the MOSAiC team, inclement weather, polar night, and their location directly on the sea ice provided unique challenges for transportation. #FieldworkFriday
📸: Matthew Shupe/CIRES
📸: Matthew Shupe/CIRES
Three CIRES researchers are listed as 2025 Clarivate "Highly Cited Researchers 2025." The annual list celebrates researchers with significant and broad influence: Jennifer Balch, Noah Fierer, and Jose Jimenez! @cu-esiil.bsky.social @clarivate.com @noahfierer.bsky.social @jljcolorado.bsky.social
November 13, 2025 at 9:45 PM
Three CIRES researchers are listed as 2025 Clarivate "Highly Cited Researchers 2025." The annual list celebrates researchers with significant and broad influence: Jennifer Balch, Noah Fierer, and Jose Jimenez! @cu-esiil.bsky.social @clarivate.com @noahfierer.bsky.social @jljcolorado.bsky.social
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⚒️ Article: Record grounded glacier retreat caused by an ice plain calving process
@adrianluckman.bsky.social @etienneberthier.bsky.social @drnaomio.bsky.social
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
@adrianluckman.bsky.social @etienneberthier.bsky.social @drnaomio.bsky.social
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
November 3, 2025 at 4:30 PM
⚒️ Article: Record grounded glacier retreat caused by an ice plain calving process
@adrianluckman.bsky.social @etienneberthier.bsky.social @drnaomio.bsky.social
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
@adrianluckman.bsky.social @etienneberthier.bsky.social @drnaomio.bsky.social
www.nature.com/articles/s41...