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The Cooperative Institute for Research in Environmental Sciences (CIRES) at CU Boulder is a world leader in environmental research. We've partnered with NOAA since 1967. https://cires.colorado.edu/
📸: John Cassano/CIRES
📸: John Cassano/CIRES
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An open letter to our federal colleagues and collaborators from CIRES Director Waleed Abdalati: cires.colorado.edu/news/cires-s...
"While the value of what you do may not be obvious to some, it benefits all. Your work is so important, and it is a true privilege being on the same team as you."
"While the value of what you do may not be obvious to some, it benefits all. Your work is so important, and it is a true privilege being on the same team as you."
Check out these maps by @wwanews.bsky.social. Colorado is currently a state divided by excess water and not enough!
Large areas of the region received 150-200% of normal #precipitation in October, with some locations in northern Utah, southeastern Utah, northern Wyoming, and southwestern Colorado receiving 200-400% of normal precipitation.
Learn more: wwa.colorado.edu/resources/in... @cires.colorado.edu
Learn more: wwa.colorado.edu/resources/in... @cires.colorado.edu
November 10, 2025 at 10:43 PM
Check out these maps by @wwanews.bsky.social. Colorado is currently a state divided by excess water and not enough!
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Everyone is at risk from the dangers of extreme cold, but these groups are more vulnerable than most. Age and certain conditions make the body less able to regulate temperature. Stay #WeatherReady and learn more about cold safety at weather.gov/safety/cold
November 10, 2025 at 8:29 PM
Everyone is at risk from the dangers of extreme cold, but these groups are more vulnerable than most. Age and certain conditions make the body less able to regulate temperature. Stay #WeatherReady and learn more about cold safety at weather.gov/safety/cold
Science marches on in the face of uncertainty! The North Central Climate Adaptation Science Center (NC CASC), hosted by the @colorado.edu and @cires.colorado.edu has received a new five-year, $1.4 million cooperative agreement to continue hosting NC CASC from the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS).
November 10, 2025 at 7:02 PM
Science marches on in the face of uncertainty! The North Central Climate Adaptation Science Center (NC CASC), hosted by the @colorado.edu and @cires.colorado.edu has received a new five-year, $1.4 million cooperative agreement to continue hosting NC CASC from the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS).
"One glacier's 'Out of this world' retreat might have set a modern record. Now, scientists pieced together what happened," CIRES research posted by the Smithsonian Magazine. Story: buff.ly/gytQpc1
November 10, 2025 at 5:47 PM
"One glacier's 'Out of this world' retreat might have set a modern record. Now, scientists pieced together what happened," CIRES research posted by the Smithsonian Magazine. Story: buff.ly/gytQpc1
Aurora alert! The aurora could be visible tonight. Will you have a chance to see it? Check the forecast! CIRES and NOAA researchers work on the aurora forecast product on the NOAA Space Weather Prediction Center webpage: www.swpc.noaa.gov #aurora #spacewx #CIRES
November 7, 2025 at 7:00 PM
Aurora alert! The aurora could be visible tonight. Will you have a chance to see it? Check the forecast! CIRES and NOAA researchers work on the aurora forecast product on the NOAA Space Weather Prediction Center webpage: www.swpc.noaa.gov #aurora #spacewx #CIRES
Don't forget to pause and enjoy the small things! For example — Ice formations under a setting sun in Anchorage, Alaska. Photographed during the Navigating the New Arctic Community Meeting in November 2022. @arctictogether.bsky.social #PhotoFriday
📸: Taylor O'Brien/CIRES alum
📸: Taylor O'Brien/CIRES alum
November 7, 2025 at 5:07 PM
Don't forget to pause and enjoy the small things! For example — Ice formations under a setting sun in Anchorage, Alaska. Photographed during the Navigating the New Arctic Community Meeting in November 2022. @arctictogether.bsky.social #PhotoFriday
📸: Taylor O'Brien/CIRES alum
📸: Taylor O'Brien/CIRES alum
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A new generation of early-career polar professionals came to Boulder, CO this spring with a vision to transform how polar research is conducted, funded, and shared with the world. The results are now available in a comprehensive synthesis report buff.ly/iZnxw4o #PECWS @polarsecco.bsky.social
Early-career polar researchers chart course for more collaborative future
PSECCO-hosted summit convenes early-career community from five continents to reimagine polar science
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September 25, 2025 at 3:17 PM
A new generation of early-career polar professionals came to Boulder, CO this spring with a vision to transform how polar research is conducted, funded, and shared with the world. The results are now available in a comprehensive synthesis report buff.ly/iZnxw4o #PECWS @polarsecco.bsky.social
This week, CIRES’ Earth Lab celebrates 10 years as a leader in environmental data science and education. "It's awesome to see a vision transformed into reality,” said Virginia Iglesias, Earth Lab director. @earthlabcu.bsky.social
November 6, 2025 at 3:49 PM
This week, CIRES’ Earth Lab celebrates 10 years as a leader in environmental data science and education. "It's awesome to see a vision transformed into reality,” said Virginia Iglesias, Earth Lab director. @earthlabcu.bsky.social
We are proud of CU Boulder Department of Geography and CIRES PhD student Ethan Carr (third from the left) who was selected as one of 12 Climate Youth Champions from nine countries as part of the inaugural cohort of the Hindu-Kush-Himalaya - Arctic Youth Leadership Forum. buff.ly/qeNTBuA
November 5, 2025 at 8:42 PM
We are proud of CU Boulder Department of Geography and CIRES PhD student Ethan Carr (third from the left) who was selected as one of 12 Climate Youth Champions from nine countries as part of the inaugural cohort of the Hindu-Kush-Himalaya - Arctic Youth Leadership Forum. buff.ly/qeNTBuA
Dark winter Arctic nights are getting warmer -- and clouds are to blame. @cires.colorado.edu and @brookhavenlab.bsky.social found wintertime clouds are becoming more opaque, and both ice and liquid-containing clouds are trapping more heat instead of letting it escape to space. buff.ly/qYVv0qa
November 4, 2025 at 3:39 PM
Dark winter Arctic nights are getting warmer -- and clouds are to blame. @cires.colorado.edu and @brookhavenlab.bsky.social found wintertime clouds are becoming more opaque, and both ice and liquid-containing clouds are trapping more heat instead of letting it escape to space. buff.ly/qYVv0qa
Here's a visual of how Hektoria Glacier started to disintegrate in 2022. #CIRES #Antarctica
November 4, 2025 at 12:44 AM
Here's a visual of how Hektoria Glacier started to disintegrate in 2022. #CIRES #Antarctica
This video shows how Hektoria Glacier began to disintegrate in 2022. #Antarctica #CIRES
November 3, 2025 at 9:31 PM
This video shows how Hektoria Glacier began to disintegrate in 2022. #Antarctica #CIRES
New video: A glacier on Antarctica’s Eastern Peninsula experienced the fastest retreat recorded in modern history—in just two months, nearly 50 percent of the glacier disintegrated. Watch this video to understand what happened. Study by @ciresnews #Antarctica #glaciermelt
November 3, 2025 at 8:17 PM
New video: A glacier on Antarctica’s Eastern Peninsula experienced the fastest retreat recorded in modern history—in just two months, nearly 50 percent of the glacier disintegrated. Watch this video to understand what happened. Study by @ciresnews #Antarctica #glaciermelt
In just two months, nearly half of Hektoria Glacier on the Antarctic Peninsula disintegrated — retreating 8 kilometers, the fastest glacier retreat ever recorded in modern history.
November 3, 2025 at 7:01 PM
In just two months, nearly half of Hektoria Glacier on the Antarctic Peninsula disintegrated — retreating 8 kilometers, the fastest glacier retreat ever recorded in modern history.
In his Boulder Daily Camera Opinion column, @maxboykoff.bsky.social notes the similarities between Hurricane Melissa in 2025 and Hurricane Mitch in 1998. "27 years separate them, yet climate connections persist." Paywall: buff.ly/5JUr8pl #hurricanemelissa
November 3, 2025 at 4:54 PM
In his Boulder Daily Camera Opinion column, @maxboykoff.bsky.social notes the similarities between Hurricane Melissa in 2025 and Hurricane Mitch in 1998. "27 years separate them, yet climate connections persist." Paywall: buff.ly/5JUr8pl #hurricanemelissa
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Feeling a little jumpy this Halloween? 👻
CU Boulder's College of Arts and Sciences researchers just found the brain region that helps us detect danger and calm down when it’s not actually scary.
Read more ↓
https://bit.ly/47ArgwX
CU Boulder's College of Arts and Sciences researchers just found the brain region that helps us detect danger and calm down when it’s not actually scary.
Read more ↓
https://bit.ly/47ArgwX
'Jump scare' science: Study explains how the brain responds to fear
Researchers have identified a brain circuit that helps animals swiftly respond to perceived threats—and dial down that response when they learn there’s no real
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October 31, 2025 at 7:25 PM
Feeling a little jumpy this Halloween? 👻
CU Boulder's College of Arts and Sciences researchers just found the brain region that helps us detect danger and calm down when it’s not actually scary.
Read more ↓
https://bit.ly/47ArgwX
CU Boulder's College of Arts and Sciences researchers just found the brain region that helps us detect danger and calm down when it’s not actually scary.
Read more ↓
https://bit.ly/47ArgwX
Please share! CIRES is accepting applications for the role of Associate Director of Science to oversee research activities! This position supervises others and reports to the CIRES Director. Learn more about the position: buff.ly/DE3DhQH
October 31, 2025 at 9:09 PM
Please share! CIRES is accepting applications for the role of Associate Director of Science to oversee research activities! This position supervises others and reports to the CIRES Director. Learn more about the position: buff.ly/DE3DhQH
🎃 Creepmeters & Creeplets: When Earth Gets Spooky 👀. Even the Earth has its creepy side…Using creepmeters, @CIRESnews scientists measure subtle, ghostly slips along faults — tiny “creeplets” that move just millimeters at a time. cires.colorado.edu/spotlights/e...
October 31, 2025 at 4:23 PM
🎃 Creepmeters & Creeplets: When Earth Gets Spooky 👀. Even the Earth has its creepy side…Using creepmeters, @CIRESnews scientists measure subtle, ghostly slips along faults — tiny “creeplets” that move just millimeters at a time. cires.colorado.edu/spotlights/e...
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CIRES is looking for an Associate Director for Science. This is an important role working directly with the CIRES Director and leadership on CIRES' science mission. Please share with colleagues who may be interested. jobs.colorado.edu/jobs/JobDeta...
CIRES Associate Director for Science
jobs.colorado.edu
October 30, 2025 at 8:09 PM
CIRES is looking for an Associate Director for Science. This is an important role working directly with the CIRES Director and leadership on CIRES' science mission. Please share with colleagues who may be interested. jobs.colorado.edu/jobs/JobDeta...
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CW3E AR Update: Multiple #AtmosphericRivers are forecast to impact the US West Coast and potentially bring heavy precipitation to portions of Washington, Oregon, and California over the next 7 days.
See our latest AR Outlook for more information: cw3e.ucsd.edu/cw3e-ar-upda....
See our latest AR Outlook for more information: cw3e.ucsd.edu/cw3e-ar-upda....
October 30, 2025 at 9:00 PM
CW3E AR Update: Multiple #AtmosphericRivers are forecast to impact the US West Coast and potentially bring heavy precipitation to portions of Washington, Oregon, and California over the next 7 days.
See our latest AR Outlook for more information: cw3e.ucsd.edu/cw3e-ar-upda....
See our latest AR Outlook for more information: cw3e.ucsd.edu/cw3e-ar-upda....
Max Boykoff, a @colorado.edu environmental studies professor and @cires.colorado.edu Fellow, said he wasn’t surprised that just 13% of L.A. Times wildfire stories in January and February mentioned climate. @maxboykoff.bsky.social www.climatecoloredgoggles.com/p/tough-love....
Tough love for the L.A. Times
Just 13% of the newspaper's stories about the Eaton and Palisades fires mentioned climate change in January and February 2025.
www.climatecoloredgoggles.com
October 30, 2025 at 7:10 PM
Max Boykoff, a @colorado.edu environmental studies professor and @cires.colorado.edu Fellow, said he wasn’t surprised that just 13% of L.A. Times wildfire stories in January and February mentioned climate. @maxboykoff.bsky.social www.climatecoloredgoggles.com/p/tough-love....
Haunted hydrology: 👻 Even forecasts have ghosts! A new @cires.colorado.edu and @noaa.gov study (under review in @ametsoc.org Weather & Forecasting) explores how machine learning models predict atmospheric rivers.
October 30, 2025 at 4:04 PM
Haunted hydrology: 👻 Even forecasts have ghosts! A new @cires.colorado.edu and @noaa.gov study (under review in @ametsoc.org Weather & Forecasting) explores how machine learning models predict atmospheric rivers.
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👏🏽 Congrats to our CU Boulder colleagues in GEOL & EBIO + their co-authors for a very interesting study on microbes in permafrost.
@cubouldearth.bsky.social @tacaro.bsky.social @kopflab.bsky.social @isotopes.bsky.social + others
@cubouldearth.bsky.social @tacaro.bsky.social @kopflab.bsky.social @isotopes.bsky.social + others
Trapped for thousands of years, ancient microbes buried in Arctic permafrost are stirring back to life. 🧊
A new CU Boulder College of Arts and Sciences study reveals they may still be capable of forming thriving colonies.
https://bit.ly/3WCNvNP
A new CU Boulder College of Arts and Sciences study reveals they may still be capable of forming thriving colonies.
https://bit.ly/3WCNvNP
Researchers wake up microbes trapped in permafrost for thousands of years
Across the Arctic, bacteria and other microorganisms have become trapped underground in frozen soil and ice. A new study finds that these ancient microbes may
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October 29, 2025 at 9:47 PM
👏🏽 Congrats to our CU Boulder colleagues in GEOL & EBIO + their co-authors for a very interesting study on microbes in permafrost.
@cubouldearth.bsky.social @tacaro.bsky.social @kopflab.bsky.social @isotopes.bsky.social + others
@cubouldearth.bsky.social @tacaro.bsky.social @kopflab.bsky.social @isotopes.bsky.social + others
Walt Meir, senior research scientist @nsidc.bsky.social is interviewed on Utah's KPCW "This Green Earth" discussing the Arctic sea ice maximum. Arctic sea ice has been receding for years and the effects are making global impacts. #Arctic
Arctic sea ice below long-term average
Arctic sea ice has experienced an unprecedented decline over the past decade. Senior research scientist at the National Snow and Ice Data Center, Walt Meier, discusses what is currently happening to…
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October 29, 2025 at 9:29 PM
Walt Meir, senior research scientist @nsidc.bsky.social is interviewed on Utah's KPCW "This Green Earth" discussing the Arctic sea ice maximum. Arctic sea ice has been receding for years and the effects are making global impacts. #Arctic
Today is National Chocolate Day! Researchers John Cassano and Kara Hartig, who recently returned from Antarctica, report that #chocolate was one of the comforts they brought from home to enjoy at the end of the day. What comfort item would you bring? #nationalchocolateday #chocolatedayiseveryday
October 28, 2025 at 4:23 PM
Today is National Chocolate Day! Researchers John Cassano and Kara Hartig, who recently returned from Antarctica, report that #chocolate was one of the comforts they brought from home to enjoy at the end of the day. What comfort item would you bring? #nationalchocolateday #chocolatedayiseveryday