Programs

Antarctica: Connecting Climate Change, Melting Ice Shelves, and Pooping Penguins
Five-part curriculum about Antarctic environmental processes and building connections between ice shelves, surface melt, climate change - and penguins!

Braiding your River: CIRES Career Development Series
Monthly professional development webinar series that supports personal learning and provides inclusive opportunities for CIRES researchers to connect and grow together

Climate Literacy and Energy Awareness Network (CLEAN)
A collection of 900+ free, peer-reviewed climate and energy educational resources and support for educators

Data Puzzles
Innovative lessons that combine classroom-friendly datasets with the research-backed instructional practices of Ambitious Science Teaching to support students in making sense of science phenomena

Environmental Data Science Innovation & Inclusion Lab (ESIIL)
Enabling an inclusive community of practice to leverage the wealth of environmental data for challenges in the environmental sciences.

FieldSafe
A facilitated virtual workshop to mitigate environmental and inter-personal risks in remote field environments.

GeoMag
Hands-on curriculum that explores the power of community/citizen science, Earth's magnetic field, space weather, and data collection
Girls* on Rock
Girls* on Rock is a unique, FREE wilderness science education program for high school girls*. *We welcome all girls* to apply, including cisgender girls and transgender, agender, Two Spirit, intersex, nonbinary, and genderqueer youth.
HEART Force
Action-oriented curriculum that engages middle and high school students in Colorado to investigate wildfire, flood, or drought risk in their hometown and inspire action to increase resilience

MOSAiC
Education and outreach efforts around the international Multidisciplinary drifting Observatory for the Study of Arctic Climate (MOSAiC) expedition to the Arctic

Navigating the New Arctic (NNA)
Supporting highly collaborative research toward a more resilient, healthy, and equitable Arctic that is understood and stewarded for its role in global systems.

Polar Science Early Career Community Office (PSECCO)
Community-building and community-support organization for polar early career scientists

QGreenland
A free, open-source geospatial data package that makes Greenland-focused research, teaching, and collaboration more accessible

Research Experience for Community College Students
Summer research experience program for community college students from Colorado and surrounding states

Right Here, Right Now Global Climate Summit
Guide that supports educators working to connect human rights and climate change in formal and informal learning spaces

Science On a Sphere (SOS)
Science On a Sphere® (SOS) is a room-sized, global display system that uses computers and video projectors to display planetary data onto a six-foot diameter sphere, analogous to a giant animated globe.

Science Show & Share
This webinar series connects scientists from around the world to engage students and learners of all ages. Each webinar includes a 15-20 minute presentation followed by 30 minutes of Q&A. Explore our recommended learning materials on the event page.

Water in the Western US
University of Colorado Boulder just launched a free, online course exploring water and climate in the western United States.

We are Water
Place-based education program that connects diverse communities in the desert Southwest with water topics through stories, activities, and a traveling exhibit