Matt Mendoza with award in hand

CIRES researcher Matt Mendoza receives Colorado Governor’s Award

Nov. 22, 2024

A prestigious CO-LABS award highlights Matt Mendoza’s work as a visiting fellow and postdoctoral researcher in geoscience at ¶¶Òõ¶ÌÊÓƵ Boulder, where he worked with CIRES Fellow Anne Sheehan.

Pine releasing pollen

Social media posts reveal regional patterns in seasonal allergies

Nov. 15, 2024

Scientists from CIRES and ¶¶Òõ¶ÌÊÓƵ Boulder harnessed social media data to track patterns in allergy intensity across the United States, finding an allergy hotspot in the Southeastern U.S., a winter allergy season in Colorado and more.

an exoplanet

Potential indicators of life on other planets can be created in a lab

Sept. 27, 2024

Telescopic images often capture traces of gases that may indicate life and habitable planets. But findings from a new CIRES-led study challenge this idea.

Lindsey Anderson in the lab

Breathing in the Front Range isn’t always easy. Understanding ozone pollution

Aug. 16, 2024

In July, Denver and the northern Front Range failed to meet the national air quality standards for ozone amid a nine-day streak of ozone pollution alerts. Lindsey Anderson, a ¶¶Òõ¶ÌÊÓƵ Boulder atmospheric chemist, offers her perspective on why this is important.

Icebergs in the Ilulissat Icefjord, Greenland

Warming has more impact than cooling on Greenland's ‘firn’

July 26, 2024

A new ¶¶Òõ¶ÌÊÓƵ Boulder study has found disproportionate effects of temperature shifts on an icy glacier layer.

Dark rain clouds in the desert

The timing of rainfall could help predict floods

June 28, 2024

CIRES researchers have authored a new study that measures the time between storms to better understand soil moisture and how this relates to floods.

an open field

Supporting Indigenous researchers through fellowship, science

May 23, 2024

¶¶Òõ¶ÌÊÓƵ Boulder's Tribal Climate Leaders Program supports students in bringing science home to their reservations and communities.

Group of researchers and tents on ice in Greenland

International team probes ice sheet-atmosphere system

May 22, 2024

An engineer, a graduate student and three research scientists are in Greenland braving extreme cold and blustery winds as they install 25 instruments to observe changes in the ice sheet-atmosphere system during the summer melt season.

Researchers taking photos in Antarctica

Ice shelves fracture under weight of meltwater lakes

May 6, 2024

For the first time in the field, CIRES-led research shows that ice shelves don’t just buckle under the weight of meltwater lakes—they fracture.

Colorado River

Precipitation may brighten Colorado River’s future

May 3, 2024

The Colorado River’s future may be a little brighter than expected, according to a new modeling study from CIRES researchers. Warming temperatures have raised doubts the river could recover. But the new study paints a fuller picture.

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