Have you heard? Registration is now open for #AAG2027: Grounded Relations and Desirable Futures! Don’t miss out on joining thousands of geographers from around the world in NYC, from February 8-12. 🔗 Abstract and session submissions are now open. Submit your research by October 15. buff.ly/0AcTYRP

Tomorrow is #Juneteenth! In celebration, check out these articles on vital scholarship of Black Geographies in AAG’s journals in recent years. Through September 30, 2026, AAG and Taylor & Francis provide free access to these articles, available for download at the links listed here: buff.ly/epHk6Eb

Ethan Carr (@ecarr48.bsky.social), a PhD candidate at @cugeography.bsky.social and CIRES, just finished 2 amazing weeks of summer school in Greenland. @colorado.edu Find out where he is going next — and see #WhereInTheWorld other CIRES early career researchers are this summer. arcg.is/0410um2

ICYMI — New research led by CIRES Fellow Ellen Considine shows that air pollution in Indonesia got worse after China banned plastic waste imports in 2018. More plastic waste in Indonesia ➡️ more open dumping & burning ➡️ more fine particulate matter air pollution cires.colorado.edu/news/indones...

New research led by CIRES Fellow Ellen Considine shows that air pollution in Indonesia got worse after China banned plastic waste imports in 2018. More plastic waste in Indonesia ➡️ more open dumping & burning ➡️ more fine particulate matter air pollution cires.colorado.edu/news/indones...

"Gladice" is coming to Mountainfilm in Telluride later this month! This film is a whole new approach to climate science comms from INSTAAR affiliate organization the Arctic Arts Project. Check out the trailer here: buff.ly/3MYfqpW

Our Spring 2026 Commencement Pictures are now on our website! www.colorado.edu/geography/20...

Congratulations to CIRES Director Waleed Abdalati, who was selected as a @colorado.edu Sesquicentennial Faculty Scholar! Abdalati will give a TED-style talk about his climate and cryosphere research at a public event in Denver on Thursday, August 27. www.colorado.edu/facultyaffai...

The 11th annual Stand Up for Climate Comedy event is TOMORROW NIGHT! Celebrate the power of comedy to ignite climate awareness and action. calendar.colorado.edu/event/earth-... 🗓️: April 21, 2026 🕕️: Doors 6 pm, Show 7 pm 📍: Boulder Theater

Don’t forget — the 11th annual Stand Up for Climate Comedy event is next week! Celebrate the power of comedy to ignite climate awareness and action. calendar.colorado.edu/event/earth-... 🗓️: April 21, 2026 🕕️: Doors 6 pm, Show 7 pm 📍: Boulder Theater

“In the longer term, it’s the loss of capability, the ability to make these observations, because, like many things, it’s much easier to break than it is to reconstitute." CIRES Director Waleed Abdalati shares the impacts of the NOAA funding pause in @thehill.com ⬇️ thehill.com/policy/energ...

👏🏽 Congrats to Holly Barnard! She will receive the AGU Hydrology Days Award 🏆 at Colorado State this week. She will also give the meeting's keynote address: "From foliage to fractures: Exploring the critical zone from multiple perspectives" Wed April 8 at 1pm www.engr.colostate.edu/ce/events/hy...

Come & celebrate the launch alongside our students at the CU Geography Mapathon, where our students actively enact Life Affirming Geographies expressed through Cartographies of Hope.

Register now for the Intermountain West Snow Drought and Water Supply Briefing, hosted by NOAA's National Integrated Drought Information System (NIDIS). 🗓️: TOMORROW, April 7 🕚️: 11 am MT 🔗: www.drought.gov/events/inter...

Congratulations to our Chair, Professor Jennifer Fluri, for winning the 2026 Boulder Faculty Assembly (BFA) Award for Excellence in Leadership and Service! www.colorado.edu/geography/20...

Millie Spencer and Emma Tyrrell: New York Times Article "How Do You Measure Snow From Space? First, Climb a Mountain." www.nytimes.com/2026/03/24/c...

First-of-its-kind nature report released for scientific review and public comment! CIRES Fellow @katherinesiegel.bsky.social is a co-author for Chapter 8: Terrestrial ecosystems of the U.S. @colorado.edu @cugeography.bsky.social Learn more from @nytimes.com ⬇️ www.nytimes.com/2026/03/05/c...

#HumansOfCIRES is back with @nsidc.bsky.social Director Mark Serreze! Serreze studies the rapidly changing #Arctic, he is passionate about teaching people how our planet works — and he creates and records his own music. @cugeography.bsky.social cires.colorado.edu/news/humans-...

Congrats to CIRES' Cibele Hummel do Amaral, Virginia Iglesias, and Katherine Siegel, who are part of the inaugural cohort of Sustainability Research Initiative Research Fellows at @colorado.edu! @earthlabcu.bsky.social @cu-esiil.bsky.social @cugeography.bsky.social www.colorado.edu/researchinno...

ICYMI — Fires that burn buildings in the wildland-urban interface create more air pollution, according to work led by @ncar-ucar.bsky.social and co-authored by CIRES scientists @earthlabcu.bsky.social, @cu-esiil.bsky.social & @cugeography.bsky.social. Read more from NSF NCAR

This week's colloquium! www.colorado.edu/geography/20...

Fires that burn buildings in the wildland-urban interface create more air pollution, according to work led by @ncar-ucar.bsky.social and co-authored by CIRES scientists @earthlabcu.bsky.social, @cu-esiil.bsky.social & @cugeography.bsky.social. Read more from NSF NCAR

This week's colloquium: The Colorado Geographies Panel at the Maps Library! www.colorado.edu/geography/20...

This week's colloquium www.colorado.edu/geography/20...

"NCAR is not just another research center. It is purpose-built critical infrastructure designed to integrate observations, modeling, supercomputing, and applied research in ways that no single university, agency, or contractor can replicate on its own." eos.org/opinions/wha...

Colloquium this Friday!

Upcoming colloquium this Friday! www.colorado.edu/geography/20...

Our Fall 2025 Newsletter is out today! www.colorado.edu/geography/ne...

IBS Faculty and Fellow Jessica Finlay is one of 18 faculty fellows for the 2026 @colorado.edu #Research and #Innovation Office cohort! We caught up with Jessica to learn what this #fellowship means to her and what she hopes to accomplish: ibs.colorado.edu/jessica-finl... #facultysupport

Join us for the Geography Commencement Ceremony on Friday, December 12th in the Guggenheim Geography Building in room 205. We do not require RSVPs or Tickets.

Pictures from our Grad School and Beyond panel.

www.colorado.edu/ecee/explori... Geography Alum: Shae Frydenlund

Pictures from the GEOG 4003-001: UAS for Earth Observation (aka the Drone class) field trip to the Mountain Research Station where students got to fly the LiDAR and Multispectral drones.

Tuesday at 11:00 AM: Join this week’s @EarthLabcu.bsky.social Environmental Data Science Seminar Series featuring Ellen Considine, CIRES Fellow, who will present “Advancing environmental health decision-making with data science.” earthlab.colorado.edu/seminar