Cooperative Institute for Research in Environmental Sciences

A CIRES, CU Boulder, and NOAA team, rapid-response after Marshall Fire

Profiles
Headshot of Joost de Gouw
Headshot of Bart Croes
People
Joost de Gouw, Christine Wiedinmyer , Steve Brown (NOAA CSL), Robert Kleyla (NOAA NWS), Darrel Kingfield (NOAA GSL), Curtis Alexander (NOAA GSL), Bart Croes, Nina Vance (CU Boulder), Mike Hannigan (CU Boulder), Colleen Reid (CU Boulder)
Year Awarded
2022
Type
CO-LABS / Governors Award
Affiliation
CSL, GSL, UCB: Chemistry, UCB: Civil, Environmental, and Architectural Engineering
Geography
State of Colorado

Pathfinding Partnerships Award — For research that engaged four or more distinct research entities in Colorado (with at least two being federally-funded labs) whose results leveraged the resources and strengths among partnering organizations – and demonstrate the power of collaboration.

Rapid-Response Science in Service to Communities after the Marshall Fire

This nomination recognizes the quick-response science and service conducted by a set of pathfinding partners at the first signs, during and after the Marshall Fire roared through Superior and Louisville, Colorado, at the end of 2021. A diverse team of researchers set to work immediately, collaborating seamlessly to figure out how to serve citizens in the short term as well as in the long term with weather and fire assessments and data. Partners from the Cooperative Institute for Research in Environmental Science (CIRES) , CU Boulder’s Mechanical Engineering and Geography departments, the NOAA Chemical Sciences Laboratory, the NOAA Global Systems Laboratory, the NOAA National Weather Service, and the Cooperative Institute for Research in the Atmosphere (CIRA) helped ordinary people make extraordinary decisions, and their ongoing research promises to help guide wildfire response and mitigation long into the future.