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For College Students

For College Students

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CEEE offers community college, undergraduate, and graduate students meaningful ways to engage with environmental science through career development resources, hands-on programming, and Earth science video content.

Career Development

CIRES Early-Career Assembly (CECA)

CECA provides connection and support for early-career researchers who come from various academic units to do research in CIRES.

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Research Experiences

Explore the opportunities CEEE offers to students of all backgrounds to engage in scientific inquiry and exploration through research experience programs.

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CIRES Early Career Guide

A portal for career and professional development resources at CIRES, CU, and beyond—designed to support early career researchers in growing their impact.

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Mentoring

Explore CEEE's resources on mentoring to learn strategies for fostering supportive and effective mentoring relationships and find opportunities to begin your own mentoring journey.

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Featured Programs for College Students

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Navigating the New Arctic (NNA)

Supporting highly collaborative research toward a more resilient, healthy, and equitable Arctic that is understood and stewarded for its role in global systems. 

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Research Experience for Community College Students

Summer research experience program for community college students from Colorado and surrounding states.

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  • Students
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ADVANCEing FieldSafety

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.

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  • Students
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Polar Science Early Career Community Office (PSECCO)

The international community office is committed to supporting polar early-career scientists through networking, community-building, and community support.

  • Scientists
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QGreenland

A free, open-source geospatial data package that makes Greenland-focused research, teaching, and collaboration more accessible.

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Earth and Environmental Science Videos

Into the Polar Night: MOSAiC Planetarium Show

CU Boulder photographer and videographer Amy Richman spent months in the Arctic last year on leg 1 of MOSAiC. This planetarium show allows viewers to experience what Amy witnessed.

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Does a Warming Climate Mean a More Accessible Arctic?

Dr. Scott Stephenson focuses on the link between climate change and human activities, how melting sea ice contributes to economic transformation of the Arctic.

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Burial of Alaskan Forests: Glacier Detachments

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.

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Ocean-Atmosphere Interactions

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. 

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Events for College Students

Apr
Sat
12
2025
6:00 pm MT
Bilingual Wildfire Family Game Night: Hourglass Lake Fire Challenge

Join us for a bilingual family game night on Friday, April 11th, from 6:00 to 7:30 PM in the Community Room at the Gunnison Public Library. Gunnison High School students will be leading the Hourglass Lake Fire Challenge, an interactive wildfire response game designed to help families learn how to react in a wildfire emergency.

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Jun - Aug
Mon - Fri
02 - 01
2025
9:00 am MT
Research Experience For Community College Students Program

The Research Experience for Community College Students (RECCS) is a nine-week research program at CU Boulder providing a unique opportunity for undergraduate students from community colleges to engage in hands-on research. Applications are closed for 2025.

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Ongoing Events for College Students

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ADVANCEing FieldSafety: Changing the Culture of Fieldwork-Coursera

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.

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Ongoing Event

Frozen in the Ice: Exploring the Arctic

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.

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Water in the Western US

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.

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Get involved and stay up-to-date with CIRES CEEE.

CEEE Contact

ceee@colorado.edu
Phone: 303-492-5670
Fax: 303-735-3644

CEEE Mail

CIRES Center for Education, Engagement and Evaluation
University of Colorado Boulder
488 UCB
Boulder, CO 80309-0449

CEEE Office Hours

8:00 am to 5:00 pm MT -- fall and spring semesters