CIRES Innovative Research Program poster session and reception
November
20
Thu
2025
4:30 pm - 6:30 pmMST
Open to Public
The Innovative Research Program is an internal CIRES competition designed to stimulate a creative research environment within CIRES and to encourage synergy between disciplines and research colleagues. The program encourages novel, unconventional, or fundamental research that might otherwise be difficult to fund. CIRES-wide competitions are conducted each year to foster an innovative research environment where risk-taking is allowed and even encouraged.
We will accept IRP proposals in Spring 2026.
Please attend our poster session to learn more about the IRP projects and their research results. It is also a great opportunity to network with your CIRES colleagues! Light refreshments and beverages will be served.
2025 Poster Session IRP presenters
“Advancing understanding of stratospheric aerosol: BLASST - A novel balloon-borne collection/off-line analysis approach”
- Investigators: Alex Baron and Katie Smith
- Presenters: Alex Baron and Katie Smith
“New approach to understanding climate risks in Colorado mobile home parks”
- Investigators: Katie Clifford, Colleen Reid
- Presenters: Ethan Knight
"Evolution of the Petermann Ice Shelf River and Estuary, and impacts on ice shelf stability"
- Investigators: Alison Banwell, Michela Savignano, Emily Glazer, Waleed Abdalati, Robin Bell, Alexandra Boghosian, Roger Buck, Sarah Esenther, Adam LeWinter, Laurence Smith, Leigh Stearns
- Presenters: Alison Banwell, Michela Savignano
“Examine downstream impacts of mesoscale sea surface temperature anomalies on trade cumulus clouds and their radiative effects using satellite observations”
- Investigators: Xuanyu Chen, Ryan Eastman, Juliana Dias
- Presenter: Xuanyu Chen
“Studying effective strategies on professional development around climate mental health”
- Investigators: Anne Gold, Alicia Christensen, Abby McConnell
- Presenters: Anne Gold, Alicia Christensen, Abby McConnell
“Development of the Solar Sail Monitoring of the Interplanetary Environment (SSaMIE) Mission Proposal”
- Investigators: Paul Loto'naiu, Kosta Horaites, Ying Liu
- Presenter: Kosta Horaites
