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Climate change is the defining existential challenge of our time. The Center for Creative Climate Communication and Behavior Change (C3BC) will lead interdisciplinary and international research, practice, and policy innovations that transform behavior, culture, and politics to usher in a sustainable and equitable future in which humans and nature flourish.The Center for Creative Climate Communication and Behavior Change (C3BC) was founded in 2020. C3BC will be the preeminent international leader in creating meaningful climate messages, stories, and human behavior change. C3BC will build on Boulder's and CU’s internationally recognized strength as a leader in climate science to design transformational solutions and engagement that confront issues of human behavior and culture to help imagine a more viable future. We will forge interdisciplinary connections and connect practitioners with leading academics and researchers. Locally, nationally, and internationally, we will engage scholars, scientists, students, community members, artists, business leaders, non-governmental organizations, policymakers, and other critical decision makers. C3BC will support endeavors that, at scale and grounded in cutting edge climate science, advance climate conversations, increase civic engagement, and change people’s attitudes, emotions, beliefs, and behaviors.

The University of Colorado Anschutz School of Medicine is proud to offer a comprehensive professional development program for professionals working at the intersection of climate and health. The Diploma in Climate MedicineTM trains leaders to advocate for climate-resilient, patient-centered policies that serve diverse communities and systems.

Train at the intersection of climate, environment and community well-being. This MPH program prepares you to tackle environmental and workplace health challenges in a rapidly changing world. Through a strong foundation in public health and specialized coursework, students have the opportunity to gain expertise in climate resilience and response, worker health and safety, or environmental risk assessment. Graduate ready to lead efforts that protect health in the environments where people live and work—now and into the future. This program will start enrolling students in summer/fall 2026.

The Cooperative Institute for Research in the Atmosphere (CIRA) serves as a nexus for multi-disciplinary cooperation between NOAA research scientists and Colorado State University research staff, faculty, and students, aligning NOAA-identified research theme areas with long-standing academic strengths of the University. To conduct interdisciplinary research in the atmospheric sciences by entraining skills beyond the meteorological disciplines, exploiting advances in engineering and computer science, facilitating transitional activity between pure and applied research, leveraging both national and international resources and partnerships, and assisting NOAA, Colorado State University, the State of Colorado, and the Nation through the application of our research to areas of societal benefit.Our mission is: to foster additional collaboration with national and international agencies who are developing related capabilities; to affect the fundamental research conducted at the University towards NOAA’s operational needs; and to communicate our research and its practical implications to the scientific community and the public.To this end, we are dedicated to providing high-quality training to ensure operational user proficiency; conducting outreach programs to K-12 education and the general public to promote environmental literacy; and to quantifying and communicating the significant positive societal impacts of NOAA research on our everyday lives.

The Center Team is composed of more than 90 individuals, including researchers, programmers/developers, NIST collaborators, postdoctoral scholars, and graduate students from our University Partners. Working closely in teams on more than 40 tasks, the Center of Excellence will provide a common data architecture by collaborating with the National Center for Supercomputing Applications to ensure that data from around the world can be seamlessly integrated into a robust computational environment known as IN-CORE. IN-CORE will allow users to optimize community disaster resilience planning and post-disaster recovery strategies intelligently using physics-based models of inter-dependent physical systems combined with socio-economic systems.The Center for Risk-Based Community Resilience Planning is unique in merging the disciplines of Engineering, Social Sciences and Economics to model community resilience comprehensively. Systems that are essential for the recovery and vitality of a community - technological, financial, social and political support, healthcare delivery, education, and public administration - are being integrated in the model, creating a nexus between social and technological infrastructure networks that will narrow the gap between engineering and social science aspects of resilience planning and will facilitate risk communication among stakeholders and community resilience planners. The work products from the Center will provide a quantitative and science-based approach to community resilience assessment and, for the first time, will support a business case for enhancing disaster resilience at the community level.

In an era in which natural disasters, fires, wars, and disruptors like pandemics are merging to magnify security threats, the USC Price Center on National Defense and Public Safety (CNDPS) aims to:Develop frameworks and field-tested tools for cross-sector collaboration.Deliver executive education for public safety, military, and civil-sector leaders.Conduct applied research on multi-domain, multi-jurisdictional governance and security coordination.Host policy simulations, leadership scenarios, and case-based training.

CREATE serves our nation through the creation of advanced models and tools for evaluation of the risks, costs and consequences of threats to human livelihood and through assessment of strategies to mitigate risks and respond to emergencies. CREATE’s approach is integrated, holistic and impartial, providing independent assessment of hazards, both malevolent and unintentional, including terrorism, accidents, and naturally occurring events.

The Climate Hazards Center is an alliance of multidisciplinary scientists and food security analysts utilizing climate and crop models, satellite-based earth observations, and socioeconomic data sets to predict and monitor droughts and food shortages among the world's most vulnerable populations. Through partnerships with USGS, and FEWS NET, the CHC provides early warning to save lives and secure livelihoods.The CHC's mission focuses on improving the early detection and forecasting of hydroclimatic hazards related to food security, droughts, and floods while empowering decision-makers by providing improved climate analysis tools, data sets, and the on-ground support of CHC-affiliated field scientists. We aim to strengthen international disaster risk-reduction efforts by advancing drought early warning science.As an official Center, we hope to increase our reach and visibility to educate an engaged public on the devastation caused by climate disasters. By spotlighting climate hazards, we believe that public awareness of the necessity of timely scientific research and the development of operational techniques that quickly identify and quantify food insecurity will drastically increase.