CIRES Director Waleed Abdalati will host a virtual town hall Tuesday, April 14; this one has capacity to support all of us: those who normally work on CU Boulder campus and those based out of DSRC. The CIRES senior management team will be there to help address concerns and questions as best we can. As usual,… Read More


Please Zoom in for informal discussion and connection with the CIRES senior management team: Christine Wiedinmyer, Science Gretchen Richard, Finance Angela Knight, Human Resources Katy Human, Communications Nate Campbell, Information Technology https://cuboulder.zoom.us/j/118048941 or 1-669-900-6833, meeting id 118048941 This is an informal gathering, an opportunity to ask questions or simply share experiences. We want to keep in… Read More


Dear CIRES Community, We want to follow-up from yesterday’s Town Halls to reinforce leave tracking and timesheet protocols for March and April, with more details to come. For the March leave report, Admin Leave is not yet available. Please use Sick Leave when you were ill or when you took care of a sick relative, and obviously, use Vacation Leave when you were on vacation. If you were not able to fulfill some of your regular work… Read More


Dear CIRES Community:  As you know, CIRES and the university have moved all non-critical operations online for the time being, due to the current COVID-19 situation. The need for social distancing determines that we work from home at least until the mandatory remote phase comes to an end. While some members of our institute may… Read More


Dear Colleagues,  I sincerely appreciate your time and good questions during our virtual town halls this morning. My team will let you know when we schedule the next virtual meeting; it will likely be sometime next week. I’d like to clarify a couple things, because we were all dealing with rapidly changing information this morning. This… Read More


Does your grant support travel for GRAs or undergraduate students? Here are a couple of options for supporting their travel costs that don’t require your students to pay for costs out-of-pocket: Getting a CU Travel Card: CU employees, including GRAs and undergraduate research assistants, are eligible to receive a corporate liability Travel Card. Your grant… Read More


Update (1/9/2020): OIT was able to get the network back up and running. Please be aware that CIRES IT was ready to make changes to infrastructure this morning if the outage continued, in order to bring back InsideCIRES and the CIRES data feeds. Thank you for your patience and we apologize for any inconvenience that… Read More