Earth Science Stories

This video is a part of the Data Puzzles program and highlights fast-moving and destructive fires in the US from the past 25 years.
Recorded Science Talks
This video is a part of the Data Puzzles program and highlights how climate change is impacting wildfires and the time it takes for forests to regenerate.
Recorded Science Talks
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This video is part of the Science On a Sphere program and highlights NOAA's datasets and lessons about the April 8th, 2024 solar eclipse
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This video is part of the Science Show and Share program and highlights how climate change will impact Colorado's future climate and droughts.
Recorded Science Talks
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This video belongs to the Science Show and Share program and highlights the environmental phenomenon of Atmospheric Rivers.
Recorded Science Talks
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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.
Planetarium Film 
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This webinar, part of a four-part series on life at McMurdo Station Antarctica, focuses on the upper atmosphere but can also be viewed as a stand-alone session.
Recorded Science Talks
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This webinar is part of a 4-part series on life at McMurdo Station, Antarctica. Watch this stand-alone video on seasons in the polar regions or watch all four webinars. 
Recorded Science Talks
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This webinar, part of a four-part series on life at McMurdo Station in Antarctica, focuses on the upper atmosphere but can also be viewed as a stand-alone session.
Recorded Science Talks
Science Show and Share  
This webinar, part of a 4-part series on life at McMurdo Station Antarctica, focuses on the seasons in polar regions but can also be viewed as a stand alone session.
Recorded Science Talks
Science Show and Share  
This webinar is designed to be stand alone resource.
Science Show and Share  
Watch the recording of our live webinar featuring Gina Fiorile from COP26 in Glasgow, Scotland, and Maxwell Boykoff from Boulder, Colorado, as they inspire teachers, students, and the public to learn about global climate action and the work of scientists and activists worldwide.
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Experience the MOSAiC expedition through a free 360-degree planetarium show that captures the first three months of this international Arctic mission, where scientists braved darkness and storms to study the region’s crucial role in global climate and weather.
Planetarium Film 
In this stand alone webinar, videographer Lianna Nixon presents about her experiences on the MOSAiC Expedition and filming a planetarium show in the Arctic Circle.
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In this stand-alone video, Dr. Matthew Burgess talks about science policy and how math, economics, and climate science are related.
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In this stand-alone video, Dr. Walt Meier presents on Sea Ice (What it is and why we study it).
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Learn about Greenland and Ice Dymanics with Twila Moon in this stand alone video part of the Science Show & Share program.
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In this stand-alone webinar, Dr. Ryan Cassotto presents on: Radars and Remote Sensing of Glaciers. 
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Dr. Julio Sepúlveda presents: What do fossil molecules tell us about Earth’s history and the extinction of dinosaurs?
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In this stand-alone webinar, Dr. Aleya Kaushik, a water-carbon cycle scientist at NOAA GMD, presents on the Arctic Climate Cycle.
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In this webinar, Dr. Rosimar Rios-Berrios presented on her research in hurricanes, cyclones, and forecasting.
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Learn about seismology in this 30 minute stand-alone webinar with Mel Zhang and how she discovered it.
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In this stand-alone webinar, Dr. Hoell presents on Flash Droughts.
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Dr. Koontz presented on: Understanding Where Wildfires and Insects Kill Trees Using Drones and Satellites.
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This stand-alone webinar discusses wildfires, crop burning smoke, and what it's like to be a scientist.
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In this stand-alone webinar recording, Dr. Peter Martin presented on his research in and of New Guinea. In particular, when did it form and how it impacted historical climate change. 
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In this webinar recording, Dr. Rick Saltus, and Dr. Neesha Schnepf presented on their recent research in geomagnetism and talk about their crowd-sourcing app: CrowdMag
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In this stand-alone 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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In this stand-alone webinar, Dr. Noah Fierer presented on his recent work looking at the microorganisms living in soils of Antarctica, one of the driest and coldest places on Earth.
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In this stand-alone webinar, Dr. Lincoln Pitcher presented on recent research about meltwater production, transport and export from the Greenland Ice Sheet.
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In this stand alone webinar, Mylène Jacquemart talked about her research working to identify triggers of sudden glacier detachments: destructive glacial process that buried kilometers of Alaskan forest.
Recorded Science Talks
In this webinar, Dr. Amy Butler talked about the Polar Vortex.
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In this stand-alone webinar, Janice Bytheway talked about precipitation - how it forms, and a little bit on how we observe and predict it.
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In this stand-alone webinar, Dr. Ted Scambos presented a 'science travelogue' for the continent of Antarctica.
Science Show and Share  
This video (2.6) covers water, public rights, and the Endangered Species Act.
Science Content Video 
This video (5.1) gives an overview on the controversial topic of hydraulic fracturing (also known as "fracking").
Science Content Video 
This video (2.4), Assistant Attorney General Kate Ryan from the Colorado Supreme Court gives an overview of water rights across the Western US and the Prior Appropriation Doctrine.
Science Content Video 

In this webinar on microbes, CIRES Fellow Noah Fierer and CU Graduate Student Hannah Holland-Moritz present on microbial diversity in the environment.

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