In March, ESIIL Working Group “Interdisciplinary Approaches to Modeling Extreme Wildfire Events” met in person on site in Boulder, Colorado. PI Melissa Lucash recaps their visit in a blog post, read here: www.melissalucash.com/news/2026/3/...

Join us for our upcoming EDS seminar with a presentation from Nattália Neves who will be presenting on the importance of leaf phenology in plant economic strategies in tropical dry ecosystems. 🌿Visit our website for more info: lnkd.in/gCZbip69

We are thrilled to announce the selection of ESIIL’s third cohort of working groups! These 10 dynamic teams will collaboratively address pressing environmental challenges and work towards innovative, data-driven solutions. Visit our website for more: esiil.org/news-events/...

Join us for our upcoming EDS Seminar! Ben Baiser and Daijiang Li will be presenting, “Global Urban Biological Invasion Compendium: Synthesizing Global Data to Understand Urban Biodiversity.” 🌿 Please click here for more information and the zoom link: esiil.org/news-events/...

ESIIL Postdoc, Kai Kopecky, was recently highlighted in bioGraphic Magazine about his work that asks whether skeletons of dead coral help or hinder coral reef recovery. Check out “The Curse of Dead Corals” to learn more: www.biographic.com/the-curse-of...

Congratulations to ESIIL Affiliate and CU Geography Professor, Dr. Katherine Siegel, for being named one of 11 women to watch in science! Read more about her highlight in The Story Exchange here: thestoryexchange.org/women-in-sci...

How does combining trade, nutrient, and network analyses help inform strategies to increase nutrient retention, strengthen food security, and support resilience for Pacific Island countries? Learn more by visiting the Environmental Defense Fund’s blog post at: blogs.edf.org/edfish/2026/...

Congrats to the first cohort of CU Boulder’s Sustainability Research Initiative fellows. Members of the ESIIL team will participate in an incubator that will work to address complex sustainability issues. Read the full announcement here: www.colorado.edu/researchinno...

A California Biodiversity Network (CBN) working group conducted a biodiversity assessment of California’s natural lands and freshwaters to evaluate the state’s progress toward its 30x30 initiative. 👀 Check out the report to learn more: www.cnps.org/artemisia-jo...

Applications close this week! Apply by January 31st to join the 2026 ESIIL Innovation Summit, AI for Sustainability: Translating Environmental Data into Decisions. Visit our website to learn more & apply: esiil.org/news-events/... cu-esiil.github.io/Innovation-S...

Join us this summer at the 2026 ESIIL Innovation Summit, AI for Sustainability: Translating Environmental Data into Decisions. Dive into cutting-edge AI approaches for environmental data science, and collaborate on AI-ready datasets & tools Apply by January 31st: cu-esiil.github.io/Innovation-S...

Interested in joining a working group but don’t have a team yet or are you looking for collaborators? Join our Working Group networking event next week on Nov.6th! Visit our website to learn more & register: esiil.org/working-groups

📢 Solution-Based #DataScience for #Environmental #Biology Challenges Announcing a new Call for Papers with @cu-esiil.bsky.social to advance data-intensive approaches to better understand today's environmental challenges: ℹ️https://bit.ly/4q0b68m 📅 31 May 2026 #TippingPoints #Resilience #Adaptation

Apply to be an ESIIL Postdoc by Sept. 15th! Visit our website to learn more & apply: esiil.org/careers jobs.colorado.edu/jobs/JobDeta...

We are currently accepting Postdoc applications! Visit our website to learn more and apply by Sept. 15th, 2025 for full consideration: esiil.org/careers jobs.colorado.edu/jobs/JobDeta...

We are currently accepting applications for our 3rd cohort of Working Groups! Visit our website to learn more: esiil.org/working-groups

The ESIIL Stars are out! Interns from Metro State Univ.-Denver, Oglala Lakota College, Haskell Indian Nations University, and San Carlos Apache College/Tohono O’odham Community College participated in the Environmental Data Science Innovation and Impact Lab (ESIIL) Stars program! buff.ly/KRfKzdz

ESIIL is now accepting applications for working groups. These groups play a pivotal role by pooling knowledge and expertise from various disciplines to tackle environmental issues with a data-driven perspective. Visit our website to learn more: esiil.org/working-groups

See Earth Lab & ESIIL team members at ESA25! Learn more about our team members sessions here: esiil.org/news-events/... @cu-esiil.bsky.social

Applications close today! Apply now to join our team as a Professional Assistant! esiil.org/careers

We are currently accepting applications for a Professional Assistant! Visit our website to learn more and apply by Aug 4th for full consideration. esiil.org/careers jobs.colorado.edu/jobs/JobDeta...

Join the ESIIL team as a Professional Assistant! Visit our website to learn more & apply by August 4th! esiil.org/careers jobs.colorado.edu/jobs/JobDeta...

ESIIL team members recently visited the NSF headquarters in Washington, D.C. Read more about their visit and ESIIL director Dr. Jennifer Balch's talk, "From Ember to Exabyte: Wildfires are a Big Data Frontier" on our website: esiil.org/news-events/...

Sign up now for our free ESIIL Data Short Course to learn fundamental tools in EDS. Learn more and register by July 14th esiil.org/data-short-c...

Join our team as a Machine Learning/AI Postdoc! Visit our website to learn more & apply by July 15th! esiil.org/careers jobs.colorado.edu/jobs/JobDeta...

Sign up for our short course when you register for ESA2025! Learn about Cloud-Based EDS Workflows with our education team! events.rdmobile.com/Sessions/Det...

Registration is now open for the 2025 ESIIL Data Short Course! Learn fundamental tools for open Environmental Data Science (EDS) education and research! Visit our website to learn more and register: esiil.org/data-short-c... @cires.colorado.edu

We are currently accepting applications for a Machine Learning/AI Postdoc! Visit our website to learn more & apply! esiil.org/careers jobs.colorado.edu/jobs/JobDeta... @cires.colorado.edu @colorado.edu

ESIIL is hosting a short course at the 2025 ESA annual meeting! Sign up now to learn about Cloud-Based EDS Workflows on the ESIIL Learning Portal with our education team: events.rdmobile.com/Sessions/Det... @ecologicalsociety.bsky.social

Check out our newest blog from Analytics Hub Director, Cibele Amaral, where she discusses the BioExtremes Python Tool! Read the full blog here: earthlab.colorado.edu/blog/bioextr...

Watch some of our past Environmental Data Science (EDS) seminars along with other trainings and resources on our YouTube Channel lnkd.in/gizYTyZy

Last week, ESIIL hosted 23 students, interns, & faculty as part of our 2025 ESIIL Stars cohort. They spent the week in Boulder, CO gaining data skills, developing project-based learning skills, and building capacity to teach environmental data science. esiil.org/esiil-stars

Last week, Earth Lab team members celebrated Earth Lab's 10th anniversary and presented some of their research in a poster session for CIRES Rendezvous! @cu-esiil.bsky.social @cires.colorado.edu

Introducing our 2nd cohort of Working Groups! Visit our website to learn more about what each of our 5 new groups are working on! esiil.org/working-groups

Happy Earth Day from Earth Lab & ESIIL! Our teams love working on various earth-related topics and using environmental data! @earthlabcu.bsky.social

The North Central Climate Adaptation Science Center is hosting a webinar May 8th on Exploring the carbon effects of forest transformation and exotic annual grassland restoration. Featuring @cu-esiil.bsky.social Deputy Director, Dr. Chelsea Nagy. Learn more here: nccasc.colorado.edu/news/next-we...

ESIIL Director, Dr. Jennifer Balch was quoted in a new story by @science.org, Scientists scramble to track LA wildfires’ long-term health impacts View the full story here: www.science.org/content/arti...

The Boulder County Nature Association is hosting a local symposium on March 15th on Restorative Relationships: Sustainable Responses to Ecological Challenges. Learn more and register here: www.eventbrite.com/e/restorativ...

Last week, we hosted the Worldwide FreshH20 Zoops Working Group! Read about their work here: esiil.org/working-groups

Applications are closing soon! Apply now to join us this summer for our 3rd annual ESIIL Innovation Summit! Visit our website to learn more: cu-esiil.github.io/Innovation-S... Apply on our website or using the link below: docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...

1 week left to apply! Join us this summer for our 2025 ESIIL Innovation Summit! Visit our event website to learn more and apply today! cu-esiil.github.io/Innovation-S...

Congratulations to Yasir Abbas for completing the ESIIL Data Short Course, and for recently earning his Agricultural Engineering degree from University of Agriculture, Faisalabad in Pakistan. Great job, Yasir! Find him on GitHub at chyasirabbasjutt.github.io.

Nate Quarderer & Elsa Culler are speaking at the 2025 January ESIP Meeting this morning. They'll discuss Data Democracy: Empowering Everyone with Our Data, Tools, and Services sched.co/1snZU www.esipfed.org

Watch: Understanding fast fires — like those happening in L.A. — through Earth science data. The recorded webinar features CIRES Fellow Jennifer Balch.

CIRES Fellow Jennifer Balch, @cu-esiil.bsky.social & @earthlabcu.bsky.social , spoke with @apnews.com and Scientific American about the LA Fires. Read what she had to say: apnews.com/article/fire... and www.scientificamerican.com/article/pali...

ESIIL Director, Dr. Jennifer Balch was featured in a Bloomberg article, How to Survive the Next Urban Firestorm. See the full article here: www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

CIRES' Virginia Iglesias, interim director of @earthlabcu.bsky.social, discusses why some fires — like those happening in L.A. — are more destructive and harder to contain ⬇️

ESIIL Director Dr. Jennifer Balch wrote an OpED for @washingtonpost.com. Read the full article below.

Congratulations to Dr. José Roberto Motta Garcia for completing the ESIIL Data Short Course 1! A researcher at Brazil's National Institute for Space Research (INPE), Garcia combines AI, climate modeling, and geoprocessing to address environmental challenges. View more: garcia-inpe.github.io

Congratulations to Gaurav Chakrabarty for completing the ESIIL Data Short Course! Gaurav is a talented researcher with a strong foundation in remote sensing, geospatial data analysis, and machine learning applications for environmental challenges. View Guarav’s work here: gauravchakrabarty.github.io