This recording captures the Nov. 13, 2024 Data Puzzle webinar focused on the Wind Farms of the Future lesson in which students analyze mean wind speeds and land surface ‘roughness’ datasets to explore the best locations for wind farms.

CIRES Center for Education Engagement and Evaluation (CEEE) went live for a special edition of Science Show & Share featuring Dr. Camille Stevens-Rumann, a fire ecologist whose research focuses on how forests recover after a wildfire. Dr. Stevens-Rumann will discuss her past and present work in the US Rocky Mountains, including how climate change is making it harder for fires to grow back after wildfires.

In this Data Puzzle, students will engage with an interactive reading before analyzing authentic datasets to discover how and why the number of megafires has changed over time

Declining water levels in two of the largest reservoirs in the United States, Lake Powell and Lake Mead, provide visible evidence for the ongoing megadrought (a period of extreme dryness that lasts for decades) in the Colorado River Basin. Scientists studying weather and climate in this region are analyzing temperature and precipitation patterns over time to determine the root cause of the ongoing megadrought.

In this Data Puzzle, students will engage with an interactive reading before analyzing authentic datasets to discover how and why the number of megafires has changed over time.

In this webinar, we reviewed program specifics for the year and were joined by Dr. Alison Boardman, professor at the CU Boulder School of Education. 

Hear from mental health expert, Dr. Courtney Welton-Mitchell, to learn about how disasters (including COVID-19) affect students' mental health. Courtney studies disaster psychology locally and internationally and gives a fantastic overview of the mental health challenges students face, and how educators can create safe spaces for students to learn about traumatic topics.

This webinar is a part of the Natural Hazards Resilience Teacher Professional Development Series.

In this webinar Seth Arens focuses primarily on the natural hazards we encountered this year in Colorado, starting with an average snowpack and ending with varying levels of drought across the state, as well as some historic wildfires. 

This webinar is the first installment in the Natural Hazards Resilience Teacher Professional Development Series. In this webinar, Dr.Joseph Kerski shares tools that can be used in a classroom to assess the risks and vulnerabilities of natural hazards.

Si te llaman la atención los eventos del tiempo como las tormentas eléctricas, los huracanes y los tornados, esta presentación es para ti. Arelis M. Rivera-Giboyeaux, meteoróloga del Departamento de Energía compartirá su experiencia en el campo de las ciencias atmosfericas. Aprenderemos qué es la meteorología, cual es la diferencia entre un meteorólogo y un climatólogo, y discutiremos las diferentes opciones de empleo que puede tener un meteorólogo - más allá de trabajar en la radio y televisión.

La candidata a doctorado Claudia Corona presentará sobre impactos de precipitación extrema bajo la superficie.

La Dra. Ríos-Berrios presentará su investigación sobre huracanes.

Dr. Rios-Berrios presented on her research on hurricanes and forecasting.

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.

This video introduces the HEART Force Wildfire game materials and gives an overview of how to play.

This video introduces the HEART Force Flood game materials and gives an overview of how to play.