Programs
Antarctica: Connecting Climate Change, Melting Ice Shelves, and Pooping Penguins
This is a 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
The CIRES Career Development Series supports personal learning and provides inclusive opportunities for CIRES researchers to connect and grow together by offering a monthly 1 hour workshop focused on developing diverse professional skills.
Climate Literacy and Energy Awareness Network (CLEAN)
A collection of nearly 700 free peer-reviewed climate and energy educational resources.
Data Puzzles
Data Puzzles combine classroom-friendly scientific datasets with the research-backed pedagogical practices of Ambitious Science Teaching to give your students the ultimate inquiry-based learning experience.
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
Explore the power of community/citizen science, Earth's magnetic field, space weather, and data collection with a series of lessons, vide
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
Engage youth and teachers to raise awareness of natural hazards and inspire action for resilience in Colorado communities.
MOSAiC
Education and outreach efforts around the international Multidisciplinary drifting Observatory for the Study of Arctic Climate (MOSAiC) expedition to the Arctic, beginning in September 2019.
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)
The Polar Science Early Career Community Office (PSECCO) is a community-building and community-support organization for polar early career scientists.
QGreenland
QGreenland is a free and open-source GIS mapping tool to support interdisciplinary Greenland-focused research, teaching, decision making, and collaboration.
Research Experience for Community College Students
A summer research internship program for Colorado community college students.
Right Here, Right Now Global Climate Summit
The RHRN Educator’s Guide strives to support educators working to connect formal and informal learning spaces to the conference content
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
We are Water partners with libraries in the Four Corners Region to bring programs and a traveling exhibit about the importance of water to rural, Latinx, and Indigenous communities in the Southwest.
Recent Programs
Arctic Climate Connections
The Broader Impacts portion of the NSF proposal studying analysis of existing data from Arctic terrestrial stations with multi-year measurements of the surface energy budget, clouds, soil temperature profiles, and basic meteorological measurements.
CIRES/NOAA Science@Home
This webinar series features 10-15 minute presentations followed by 10-15 minutes of Q&A and are all paired with recommended learning materials.
CIRES/NOAA Serie La Ciencia-en-Casa
¿Eres un maestro/a buscando oportunidades de aprendizaje a distancia para tus alumnos/as?
Climate and Resiliency Education
Building capacity and resources in climate and resiliency education with secondary science educators.
DISCOVER-AQ: Know Your Air Quality
Accurate air pollution data can help us develop solutions to our region’s persistent air pollution problems.
Engaged Scientist Series
Free public lectures and workshops for graduate students & postdocs on engaging with communities.
Improv and Environmental Science Workshops
Improvisational theater workshops that engage students and teachers in applying improv to science communication and collaboration.
Lens on Climate Change (LOCC)
Documenting the effects of climatic and environmental changes on students' lives and in their communities through short films.
Lentes en Cambio Climático (LECC)
Los estudiantes de secundaria y preparatoria exploran temas locales sobre el cambio climático mediante la producción de cortometrajes.
The GLOBE Program
The GLOBE Program is a network of worldwide students, teachers, scientists, and partners who work together. CIRES E&O is a GLOBE partner.
Tribes Eye
Engaging Navajo tribal college students to learn about climate and the local environment through photography.