Want to make your science more usable? Join Lisa Dilling, Director of Western Water Assessment, on March 6 for a talk on usable science, followed by a panel discussion featuring CU researchers whose science has been used beyond the university. More information here. Sign up here.… Read More


CIRES D&I has a new newsletter that goes out to external subscribers, including many underrepresented students and scientists. Please let Susan Sullivan know at susan.sullivan@colorado.edu if you have an open position you’d like to highlight or some other D&I opportunity at CIRES that people should know about.… Read More


CIRES supports a Graduate Student Research Award program to promote student scholarship and research excellence. The goal of the program is to recognize the scholarship and merit of CIRES’ outstanding graduate students. Any current Ph.D. student that is formally supervised by a CIRES Fellow or CIRES Researcher is eligible for this one-time award opportunity. Applications… Read More


The Innovative Research Program encourages novel, unconventional, or fundamental research that might otherwise be difficult to fund. The 2019 IRP competition opened February 11, 2019 and applications will be due March 25, 2019. More info here.… Read More


Please complete your DEPA (Conflict of Interest) form for 2019. DEPAs are required for proposal submission and receipt of new grant funding. Click here for more information.… Read More


Reminder – please be sure to notify CIRES Proposals of any upcoming proposals, as soon as possible (ideally 3 weeks prior to deadline), for optimal service. This includes all funding opportunities, including participation on other CU department submissions, for which CIRES will need to build your budget. Please contact CIRESProposals@colorado.edu.… Read More


CIRES Finance is here to answer your questions, let us be your first point of contact for any questions regarding award management. The University frequently sends out notices or odd messages that may be confusing. If you have questions, please route them to your post-award administrator at CIRES first. We’ll assist in getting those answers!… Read More


The Finance Office Proposal Team (ciresproposals@colorado.edu) is here to assist with your proposal submissions. At this time, CU’s Office of Contracts and Grants (OCG) is recommending PIs proceed with submissions despite the fact we may not have all the required information from our federal partners.  Once the government re-opens, OCG will be able to demonstrate… Read More


Tasha Snow has stepped down as CGA co-chair this semester as she starts to ramp up some exciting field work during the last year of her PhD. After a large amount of interest in the position, Ilann and Tasha have chosen Meghan Helmberger (Meghan.helmberger@colorado.edu) to take over the grad co-chair position. She is a PhD… Read More


During the shutdown, the CIRES communication team would like to hear about your upcoming paper publications and submissions, so we can continue to promote your work. Send any updates to our team at ciresnews@colorado.edu. We’ll update your federal communications colleagues as we can.… Read More