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
Recent Programs
Arctic Climate Connections
The Broader Impacts portion of the NSF proposal studies the 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.