Last week, we wrapped up our Resilient Futures Teacher Workshop, where middle school and high school educators attended educational resource sessions, seminars by scientists, lab tours, and networking events. 👨🏫
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CEEE, a trusted partner in connecting CIRES science with educators, learners, and communities, makes research data accessible, inspires environmental action, and fosters scientific curiosity. https://ceee.colorado.edu/
This summer, Irma Alexander, a 2026 intern with the @ciresceee.bsky.social Research Experience for Community College Students (RECCS) program, and Lou Toy, field leader, were in Genesee Park, Colorado, studying the impacts of a small bison herd on local plant life. #FieldworkFriday @cuboulder
This summer, interns at our Research Experience for Community College Students (RECCS) program are thinking critically about wildfires 🔥
Professionals making critical decisions in business, finance, policy, media, and philanthropy need climate science fundamentals informing their work in order to realize our best possible future 🌐
🔬Join this USAPECS webinar featuring AGU’s own Liz Landau + leading experts on how to engage policymakers, communicate impact, and advocate for sustained research funding. 📆July 9 | 2:00 PM ET iarpc.zoom.us/meeting/regi...🧪
Could you see yourself or someone you know researching the Arctic using Indigenous and Western sciences in a collaborative and curiosity-encouraged environment? 🏔️❄️ Undergraduate students in Alaska communities are encouraged to apply to Navigating the New Arctic’s short research experience program.
Calling all K-12 educators! 🌸 The USA National Phenology Network wants your input as we develop new K-12 resources focused on student phenology data collection. Complete our short survey to share your experience and interest in bringing phenology into the classroom.
Help @colorado.edu spread the word about the importance of university research — and advocate for science! 🔬Learn more on the CU Boulder research page: www.colorado.edu/research ✍ Draft a message to lawmakers: researchfor.us
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Timely and accurate weather forecasts help communities prepare and respond. CIRES researchers @noaa.gov's Global Systems Laboratory developed a powerful new tool — HRRRCast, an experimental AI model designed to predict hazardous weather conditions. cires.colorado.edu/news/ai-help...
AI helps researchers better forecast hazardous weather
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Happy #EarthMonth 🌎✨️ a time to reflect, learn, and care for both our planet and ourselves. To celebrate, we’re featuring a new CEEE resource each week! Explore all our resources on our website: 🔗 ceee.colorado.edu #EarthDay #EarthScience #ClimateMentalHealth
A new version of SOS Explorer® (SOSx) is here! 🌎🚀 This update brings a highly requested search feature plus the ability to tag and save your favorite datasets for quick access. Ready to explore? Download it today ✨ 🔗 lnkd.in/eJZ5svmt #ScienceOnASphere #ScienceEducation #CEEE #CIRES #NOAA
We’re excited to announce that registration is now open for the Resilient Futures Teacher Workshop 📚🌱 This is a three-day professional development opportunity for middle and high school science teachers at the University of Colorado Boulder University Memorial Center on July 28–30th, 2026.
Happy Women's History Month! 💐✨ In this thread, we'll feature a few groundbreaking women making the world a better place here at CEEE. We’re grateful for our entire team who make it all possible!
CEEE’s own Katya Schloesser was interviewed by KVNF Community Radio for a HEART Force Drought Game event last week 🌡🏜 Read more: 🔗 ceee.colorado.edu/news-awards/... #CEEE #CIRES #Colorado #Drought
A cross-institutional team led by CIRES’ Carrie Wall developed a framework to improve and standardize how users process, access, and share passive acoustic monitoring data across diverse data collection communities, including science and industry. cires.colorado.edu/news/sound-s...
Sound science: Harnessing noisy data to evaluate marine ecosystems, human impacts
Cross-institutional effort creates framework to enhance access and usability of marine passive acoustic data
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Aerosols carry significant amounts of phosphorus that can fuel massive algal blooms on the Greenland Ice Sheet, according to new research, underscoring the importance of tracking dust emissions to understand how the ice sheet will change in the future. 🧪🧊 eos.org/articles/gre...
Greenland Dust Delivers Nutrients to Ice-Melting Algae - Eos
Researchers scrutinized aerosols above and within the ice sheet, finding phosphorus and other mineral particles.
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The latest findings show a 14% decline in global media coverage of climate change in 2025 — a shift with major implications for public awareness and engagement. Read more: ceee.colorado.edu/news-awards/ami-mecco-highlight #CEEE #CIRES #MeCCO #Climate
🎉 Leadership update at CIRES CEEE 🎉 We’re excited to share that Carrie McDougall has stepped into the role of Acting Director of CEEE. We’re thrilled to have Carrie guiding CEEE during this transition and look forward to the insight, continuity, and leadership she brings to the role! 🌍✨
Tracking Our Impact: Our Events 📌✨ At CEEE, we host and sponsor professional development sessions, hands-on workshops, networking events, and informational webinars — creating spaces where educators, students, and scientists can connect and learn from one another.
Tracking Our Impact: Our Educational Resources 📚✨ We create and share environmental and Earth science materials that help educators and learners engage with science shaping our world. From classroom-ready resources to professional learning tools, we make science education accessible and actionable.
Tracking Our Impact: Engagement & Awards 🏆✨ Through community events, educator partnerships, student programs, and collaborative research engagement, we connected science to the people and places where it matters most 🌎
Tracking Our Impact: Resource Engagement 📊✨ This year, our classroom-ready resources reached educators, students, scientists, and lifelong learners across the country — bringing timely, data-driven Earth system science into classrooms, communities, and conversations 🌎
Behind every program, partnership, and resource is a team of 31 dedicated scientists, data specialists, educators, evaluators, media experts, graphic designers, filmmakers, and outreach specialists, working together to make environmental and Earth system science accessible, relevant, and impactful.
The CEEE Data Puzzles Team just published a paper in The Science Teacher as part of NSTA’s special issue on Data Science for Science Education! 🔍💡 Their work explores how real-world data puzzles help students build critical data sensemaking skills and engage in authentic scientific investigations.
🎉 Big news 🎉 After 16 incredible years with CIRES (eight of them leading CEEE), Anne Gold stepped away last month to begin an exciting new chapter as Head of School for the School of Geography, Environment and Earth Sciences and tenured professor at Victoria University in Wellington, New Zealand 🇳🇿
CEEE’s Dr. Twila Moon is featured in a recent CU Boulder Today article examining the fragile state of scientific partnerships between the United States and Greenland. 👉 Read the full story on CU Boulder Today. www.colorado.edu/today/2026/0...
Happy International Day of Women and Girls in Science! 🔬✨ #WomenInScience #GirlsInSTEM #InternationalDayOfWomenAndGirlsInScience #CIRES #CEEE #STEMEducation
It sounds like something from a sci-fi movie: Continents collide and volcanoes erupt. Toxic gases fill the air. The planet becomes a hot desert devoid of life. But that scenario could predict Earth in several million years as the continents merge into Pangea Ultima. eos.org/articles/fut...
Future Supercontinent Will Be Inhospitable for Mammals - Eos
Pangea returns in 250 million years, and it’s not looking good for us.
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