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  My path to becoming an Assistant Professor at the Geography department started in Colombia, where I studied environmental engineering and anthropology. After working in a malaria surveillance and

In August 2025, Ellen Considine started as an Assistant Professor of Geography and a Fellow of CIRES (the Cooperative Institute for Research in Environmental Sciences). She is also a faculty affiliate of the new Public Health

The study, published in Scientific Reports, examines how rapid climate warming in Alaska is altering river conditions and threatening Chinook salmon populations that Indigenous communities have depended on for millennia.

CIRES Fellow Jennifer Balch was named a 2025 AGU Fellow. Balch is the director of ÎÞÂëÊÓƵ Environmental Data Science Innovation & Impact Lab (ESIIL) and a professor of Geography.

Award will allow Associate Professor Katherine Lininger to teach at the University of Trento and conduct research on the Tagliamento River floodplain in Italy.

Waleed Abdalati, director of CIRES at ÎÞÂëÊÓƵ, testified on July 16 before the Environment Subcommittee of the U.S. House Science, Space, and Technology Committee. The hearing, titled “Protecting Lives and Property: Harnessing

Figure: Professor Abdalati (4th from the right) in the lobby of the Capitol Building with other Cooperative Institute Directors On March 24-25, Cooperative Institute for Research in Environmental Sciences (CIRES

Water shapes the planet and all life upon it. Breaking down traditional disciplinary barriers, this accessible, holistic introduction to the role and importance of water in Earth's physical and biological environments assumes no

The water cycle is something we’ve all heard about. Water falls from the sky, soaks into soils and forms streams and rivers that fill lakes or flow into oceans. Evaporation returns water to the atmosphere, and the cycle continues

Recently, the Mountain Hydrology Group released its fifth near-real-time report on snow-water equivalent (SWE) in the Western US in 2025, and was covered in an INSTAAR press release. In essence, the report provides a snapshot of how much water