Past Announcments

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.”

Congrats to our stellar CIRES Education & Outreach team involved in Climate Literacy and Energy Awareness Network—CLEAN won the National Center for Science Education (NCSE) 2017 Friend of the Planet award.

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

Congratulations to our five researchers who made the Clarivate Analytics Highly Cited Researchers List in their disciplines: Noah Fierer, Joost de Gouw, José-Luis Jimenez, Mark Serreze, and Julienne Stroeve

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

Congratulations, Dr. Lewis, new Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science!

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

Congratulations to Athanasios Boudouridis, Abram Claycomb, Stefan Codrescu, Jonathan Darnel, Vicki Hsu, Brian Kress, Larisza Krista, Paul Loto'aniu, Janet Machol, Juan Rodriguez, William Rowland, Daniel Seaton, Margaret Tilton who received the prestigious 2017 NASA Achievement Award for excellence resulting in the successful GOES-R satellite launch, proving the nation’s foundation for the world’s highest quality weather monitoring and forecasting.

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.

Greg Tucker awarded AGU Fellow, American Geophysical Union.

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!

NSIDC's Jeff Deems received Honorable Mention from CO-LABS’ Governor's Award for High-Impact Research, for his work in improving avalanche safety and water resource management.

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.

CIRES scientist Elizabeth Weatherhead wins Kenneth C. Spengler Award from AMS, named AMS Fellow

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

Congratulations to all those who contributed to the Physical Sciences Division's El Nino Rapid Response work, which has earned a Department of Commerce Bronze Medal!

Congratulations to Anne Perring for recieving Presidential Honor

Congratulations to Lesley Smith of CIRES Education and Outreach for being named one of the Association for the Sciences of Limnology and Oceanography 2016 class of Fellows!

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' Stu McKeen and his NOAA colleagues who are co-authors on an Atmospheric Environment paper that received the 2016 Haagen-Smit Prize

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

Congratulations to CIRES Fellow Jennifer Kay (CU Boulder Atmospheric and Oceanic Sciences) for winning the AMS Houghton award

View the CIRES 2015 Annual Report

A team of NOAA and CIRES scientists earned a DOC Gold Medal for their work on the Deep Space Climate Observatory mission, dedicated to space weather. The team, led by NOAA's Doug Biesecker, included CIRES' Alysha Reinard, Jeff Johnson, Michael Burek, Tom DeFoor, Richard Grubb, Ratina Dodani, and Michele Cash

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

Meet the team of innovators and inventors in the Integrated Instrument Development Facility!

CIRES Distinguished Lecture Series: Dr. Steve Running webcast starts at 4:00 MDT