Hands-on resources for community college, undergraduate, and graduate students to advance their future in environmental STEM. Career development tools, real-world research opportunities, mentoring resources, and videos build scientific skills and create pathways to meaningful environmental impact.
CECA provides connection and support for early-career researchers who come from various academic units to do research in CIRES.
Explore the opportunities CEEE offers to students of all backgrounds to engage in scientific inquiry and exploration through research experience programs.
A portal for career and professional development resources at CIRES, CU, and beyond—designed to support early career researchers in growing their impact.
Supporting highly collaborative research toward a more resilient, healthy, and equitable Arctic that is understood and stewarded for its role in global systems.
Summer research experience program for community college students from Colorado and surrounding states.
Prepare your field team for the next season and mitigate environmental and interpersonal risks in remote field environments. Take our free, online training program, sign up for facilitated learning sessions, and find all resources you need in our toolkit.
The international community office is committed to supporting polar early-career scientists through networking, community-building, and community support.
Polar Places and Spaces, or PolarPASS, is designed to bring polar environments into the classroom, allowing students to explore extreme environments and connect with new and seemingly distant places using interactive 360-degree interactive environments and Geographic Information System (GIS) data.
A free, open-source geospatial data package that makes Greenland-focused research, teaching, and collaboration more accessible.
Join Lianna Nixxon aboard the Multidisciplinary Drifting Observatory for the Arctic Climate (MOSAiC) Expedition. This planetarium film was rendered in 2D to be viewed on YouTube.
Dr. Scott Stephenson focuses on the link between climate change and human activities, how melting sea ice contributes to economic transformation of the Arctic.
In this webinar, Mylène Jacquemart talked about her research working to ID triggers of sudden glacier detachments: destructive glacial process that buried kilometers of Alaskan forest.
In this webinar, Dr. Elizabeth Thompson discussed how learning about weather can also teach us a lot about the ocean - it's the same but backwards.
Interested in growing your polar international network and building potential collaborations? Join us for an hour and a half on Wednesday, September 24, 2025, 7am AKT | 9am MT | 11am ET for an international networking event for polar early career researchers!
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Join us for an engaging conversation exploring the intersection of climate change, mental health, and Indigenous perspectives, featuring two members of the Gen Z Climate Mental Health Network.
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How can we create communities of care that sustain both ourselves and those around us? This workshop invites participants to explore Indigenous wisdom, healing-centered engagement, and practices that foster resilience, belonging, and connection.
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Asynchronous Event
The ADVANCEing FieldSafety course provides field research team leaders and field team participants with the skills and tools to build a welcoming and inclusive field culture. This course will help you and your team develop norms and codes of conduct, and review or clarify leadership and field team organization. This is a Massive Open Online Course (MOOC) on Coursera.
Asynchronous Event
A self-paced, free, online course “Frozen in the Ice: Exploring the Arctic” is about the extraordinary MOSAiC Arctic research mission that has frozen an icebreaker into the Arctic Ocean for 13 months.
Asynchronous Event
In this self-paced, free, online course, you will learn about water and climate in the Western United States and join a community of thousands of learners to gain insight into the major legal, political, and cultural issues that make water so complex in the region.
