Announcements

CIRES, CU Boulder and other colleagues: please join us Wednesday for a celebration of Koni Steffen's life.

UPDATE: As of July 14, 2020, this ICE guidance has been rescinded and international students at CU Boulder will be able to continue their incredible contributions.

A message for our International Students from CIRES, INSTAAR, Geology leadership

Dear CU Geosciences community:

Like many of you, we are appalled by the recent ICE communication, announced Monday July 6th, regarding F-1 and M-1 status international students and online study. It is an attack on valued members of our departments, our institutes and our entire enterprise. It loads further anxiety and uncertainty onto many who are already coping with difficult or restricted research environments. And it increases the sense of isolation and lack of representation among a group who are indeed underrepresented.

The announced changes jeopardize the success and safety of our international students, both graduate and undergraduate, and come in the midst of a pandemic, when we are already carefully balancing access to research, access to learning, and public health. Without serving any legitimate purpose, they put students and the research and teaching enterprises that are the core of the university at risk.

The research institutes of CU Boulder, and the departments to which these institutes are partnered, are united in standing with our international students against this reckless and damaging policy and its cruel attempt to use our members as political pawns. We are working alongside university leadership to oppose the ICE guidance and protect our international students. At CU’s request, Representatives Neguse, DeGette, and Perlmutter have all signed letters urging the Department of Homeland Security and ICE to rescind the July guidance. In the meantime, the ICE policy is not finalized and it faces strong opposition in the courts and other arenas.

While the fluidity of the situation and the breadth of the response means that any details will be out of date quickly, we want to emphasize that action is being taken at all levels. We believe that our hybrid in-person and online course model will protect all CU students from this policy if it is enacted, even if we need to shift to a remote model partway through the semester. The departmental and institute leaders are in discussion, and will be making changes that will serve to protect students from ICE rulings.

If you are here as an international student, please know that we value you and your participation in our community and will support and defend your ability to continue your education without interruption. Please review the FAQs from International Student and Scholar Services and stay in touch with that office, as well as your advisors and professors, and look for resources from the Graduate School.

In the words of one of our international students, Lina Pérez-Angel, “Science is something that is supposed to cross borders.” Thank you to all of our international scholars for being here, for being partners in discovery and innovation, and for being at the core of who we are. We stand with you.

Sincerely,

Bob Anderson, Geology

Merritt Turetsky, INSTAAR

Waleed Abdalati, CIRES

Here are other statements from other entities on campus, illustrating the breadth and depth of the response:

Statement from the College of Engineering: https://www.colorado.edu/engineering/supportingintlstudents

Statement from the United Government of Graduate Students: https://www.colorado.edu/uggs/2020/07/07/comment-regents-regarding-ice-rule

And see CU's ISSS info here: https://www.colorado.edu/isss/2020/07/07/fall-2020-planning-considerations-f-1-students

Congratulations to CIRES' Carrie Wall Bell! She's one of 25 CU Boulder researchers awarded seed funding from CU Boulder's Research & Innovation Office. Bell, who works in NOAA's National Centers for Environmental Information, will work with a professor of Computer Science on: "Finding Little Fish in Big Data: Automated Pattern Analysis and Anomaly Detection in the Fisheries Acoustic Archive." More...

A Boulder Daily Camera headline Wednesday morning incorrectly stated CIRES is closing. Rather, as the story itself reported, the CIRES Center for Science and Technology Policy (CSTPR) will close May 31.

Congratulations to NOAA's Eric Hackathorn; CIRES' Hilary Peddicord, Beth Russell, and Jonathan Joyce; and CIRA's Keith Searight, recipients of the Federal Laboratory Consortium (FLC) 2020 Impact Award! The team was recognized "for their stellar work to bring Science On a Sphere Explorer™ and SOSx Mobile to the public." The FLC Impact Award honors employees of FLC member laboratories and non-laboratory staff whose technology transfer efforts have made a lasting and tangible impact on the populace or marketplace, ranging from a local to a global scale.

Congratulations to the 13 CU Boulder researchers who made "highly cited" status this year, according to the Web of Science Group at Clarivate Analytics! Four are from CIRES: Jose Jimenez, Noah Fierer, Julienne Stroeve, and former Ph.D. student Jonathan Leff. More: https://recognition.webofsciencegroup.com/awards/highly-cited/2019/ 

CO-LABS has announced the winners of the 2019 Governor’s Award for High-Impact Research, and University of Colorado Boulder researchers contributed to all three winning projects. More...

Four CIRES experts were critical to work just awarded a Department of Commerce Silver Medal! NCEI's Kelly Stroker and colleagues in the National Weather Service received commendation: “for producing high-resolution topographic-bathymetric Digital Elevation Models, informing coastal inundation models for tsunami and hurricane hazards.”

The Department of Commerce Silver Medal recognizes exceptional performance characterized by noteworthy or superlative contributions that have a direct and lasting impact within the Department. Non-federal scientists cannot receive DOC medals, but CIRES will recognize team members Kelly Carignan, Matt Love, Chris Amante, Nic Arcos with a CIRES Silver Medal at our annual Rendezvous science symposium in 2020. 

Congratulations to CIRES Fellow and Chemistry Professor Veronica Vaida, for ACS / APS's Irving Langmuir Award in Chemical Physics, for outstanding interdisciplinary research in chemistry and physics.

Congratulations to CIRES fellow Xinzhao Chu—she was chosen to give the CEDAR Prize Lecture at this summer’s CEDAR Workshop about her recent science contributions to understanding coupling from the stratosphere to the MLT resulting from Lidar development and observations in McMurdo, Antarctica!

Congratulations to Jose Jimenez, Joost de Gouw, Julienne Stroeve, Noah Fierer, and the late John Wahr, who were named 2018 Highly Cited Researchers in their fields by Clarivate Analytics!

Congratulations to two of our CIRES Fellows, Peter Molnar and Craig Jones (CU Boulder Geological Sciences) who received awards at the 2018 Geological Society of America meeting this week! Peter Molnar—International Distinguished Career Award, and Craig Jones—Structural Geology and Tectonics Division, Outstanding publication award!

Congrats to CIRES/NOAA researchers, recieved Honorable Mention from the 2018 CO-LABS Governor's Awards for High Impact Research!

Congrats to Steve Montzka and Balaji Rajagopalan—named 2018 AGU Fellows!

Congrats to NSIDC scientist Dr. Shari Fox Gearheard and the team behind the research project and book, “The Meaning of Ice,” they were awarded the inaugural Mohn Prize in Tromso, Norway. The International Mohn Prize recognizes “outstanding research related to the Arctic” and comes with an award of 2 million Norwegian Kroner. The project made “groundbreaking contributions to our understanding of Arctic ice-dominated systems via a highly innovative combination of natural science, social science and Indigenous knowledge.”

Congratulations CIRES Visiting Fellow Jen Henderson, elected as a AMS Academic Sector Council Member for 2018

Congrats to CIRES Fellow Peter Molnar who received CU Boulder's prestigious Distinguished Professor Honor

Anne Gold receives Chancellor's Award for Excellence in STEM Education.

Congratulations to David Reynolds for receiving the NOAA Administrator’s award for advancing weather and climate models to balance flood and drought risks while providing water reliability for fish and people in the Western United States.

A belated congratulations to Ravan Ahmadov, Joost de Gouw, Bill Dubé, Stu McKeen, Christoph Senff, Colm Sweeney, Patrick Veres, Rebecca Washenfelder, Carsten Warneke, Abigail Koss, Chelsea Thompson for receiving an Outstanding Paper Award from NOAA OAR for their work: “High winter ozone pollution from carbonyl photolysis in an oil and gas basin,” published in Nature!

Paul Johnston and David Costa receive NOAA Technology Transfer Award for being part of a team that designed, implemented, and operated a 21st-Century observing network to address water resource and flood protection issues in the W. United States.

Congratulations to Ron Weaver, NSIDC, for earning a University Medal, in honor of lasting contributions to climate research and data management

Congratulations to Anne Perring for recieving Presidential Honor

Four CIRES scientists — Noah Fierer, Jose-Luis Jimenez, Julienne Stroeve and Mark Serreze — were named "2016 Highly Cited Researchers" by Clarivate Analytics

Congratulations to CIRES Fellow Jose-Luis Jimenez (CU Boulder Chemistry and Biochemistry) who is one of just two Fellows elected to the American Association for Aerosol Research (AAAR) this year

View the CIRES 2015 Annual Report

Congratulations to CIRES' Bob Evans and Birgit Hassler for ozone research related awards from the International Ozone Commission!