Attending AGU or AMS? Every year, the CIRES communications team highlights a subset of CIRES presentations and posters in a conference “tip sheet” for journalists and leadership. We will post these online (cires.colorado.edu) about 2 weeks ahead of each conference; check them out, and follow CIRES on Twitter during the conferences to learn more about… Read More


Have you submitted a travel voucher to us recently? Our travel team has a current processing time of 15 business days for travel reimbursements. Thank you for your patience as we work through the current heavy volume of reimbursement requests!… Read More


Keep your receipts. The university requires an itemized receipt, showing proof of payment ($0 balance due), for any transactions of $75 or more. Per Diem. You can check the General Services Administration (GSA) website to see the meals & incidentals rates for the location you’re headed to: San Francisco ($76); Boston ($71). The rate on… Read More


CIRES Finance is happy to introduce two new employees: Aly Nahum is our new Property & Purchasing Manager; Dawn Williams is our newest Finance Manager, who will be working in pre-award and post-award. In the next month, more information will be posted on their new responsibilities and the support they are providing to our faculty,… Read More


NOAA Climate Program Office Solicitation : Are you planning to submit a proposal through CU/CIRES for the upcoming NOAA solicitation NOAA-OAR-CPO-2020-2006076? There are 10 competitions under this solicitation and all are due on 10/28/19. Non-mandatory Letters of Intent (LOIs) are due via email by 8/23/19, 3:00 MST. Please email CIRES Proposals as soon as possible if you need… 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


Pre-awardThe CIRES Proposal Team is checking the federal funding agency sites daily to identify any proposal due date extensions resulting from the lengthy shutdown. As we become aware of extensions, the team will communicate directly with the PIs affected. NSF has created a Resumption of Operation Page and asked that proposers, awardees and reviewers who… 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


When reconciling the charges that have hit your P-Card each month, please input the Business Purpose of the purchase on each expense. If the space is not long enough to allow the entire Business Purpose to be entered, please write in what you can and continue the Business Purpose into the Comment field of the… Read More


We have a large number of researchers and staff headed to the American Geophysical Union (AGU) meeting December 10-14, in Washington, D.C. The CIRES Travel group typically processes reimbursement requests within 10-15 business days of receipt. A large portion of our trip reimbursements are processed by our student staff members in CIRES Finance. We are… Read More