The moon peeks through the top of the canyon. Photographed in lower Antelope Canyon on April 7, 2022.
Two Adelie penguin chicks are kept warm by their parent in Cape Royds, Antarctica.
Dr. Julianne Fernandez prepares to collect an air sample at the South Pole during a vivid display of sun halo phenomena in support of the NOAA Global Monitoring Laboratory’s mission to measure atmosphere
Busy hummingbirds at Taylor Park Marina, Colorado. August 2023.
Thanks to the Arctic summer light, the middle of the night is a fine time for kayaking near Ilulissat, Greenland.
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Thermophilic bacteria growing in a hot pool in Rotorua, New Zealand. Photo taken on September 29, 2023.
RECCS student Salome Carrasco examines a grasshopper she caught in the fields outside of Eldorado Canyon State Park. July 2023.
We admired golden larch trees in October in North Cascades National Park on Easy Pass (which was not so easy).
Here are some little cascades in the Columbia River Gorge.
Fort Niobrara National Wildlife Refuge Visitor's Center, near Valentine, Nebraska, November 9, 2023. Taken during a field visit by CIRES researchers to discuss climate adaptation with refuge staff.
08/18/2023 - AEROMMA DC-8 Campaign flying over the Great Salt Lake, Utah.
On the summit of Platthorn above Zermatt, Switzerland on August 1, 2022.
Canning River, Northern Slope of Alaska. March 2023
Christina Kumler, The desert is filled with fascinating rock formations and Buckskin Slot Canyon is no exception. We were mesmerized by the wavy and towering walls that continued for miles and miles towards the Colorado River. Photo captured November 2021.
Jonathan Hamilton, The crew of the RV Polarstern photographing a polar bear on MOSAiC Leg 4. Central Arctic, August 5th, 2020.
John Cassano, Sunset, Bears Ears Utah - 6/22/2020
Christina Kumler, There is no other canyon like this on the west coast. Hiding in Redwoods National Park, CA, is the treasure that is Fern Canyon. Ferns climb up steep and sharp walls to take you to what feels like another world. The air is so incredibly pure...
Alison Banwell, George VI Ice Shelf, Antarctic Peninsula. November, 2019
Hongyu Guo, Traveling from sea level to ~4100 m in one day is a unique experience that doesn't come often. For travelers to the Big Island (Hawaii), viewing sunset at the summit of Mauna Kea is on the top to-do list.
Elizabeth Ashley Menezes, August 2021 - Lava flowing from the erupting Fagradalsfjall volcano in Geldingadalur, Iceland
Bruce Raup, A team from Colorado School of Mines, including CU alumni, measure the thickness of Colorado's Arapaho Glacier using Ground Penetrating Radar on September 10, 2021.
Matthew Shupe, A winter blizzard at the MOSAiC Met City installation with ship lights in the background. 3 December 2019, Arctic Ocean.
G. Garrett Campbell, Location: Crested Butte, Colorado; Fall, 2021 Description: At first I didn't believe this was an aspen tree, but then I saw others just like it in the vicinity. This one was solitary and very large.
Gregory Schill, Mechanics prepare the WB-57 for a Science Flight during ACCLIP Test Flights 2021, August 2021, Houston, TX
Luca A Palasti, Finding hope in Nature 2020 May - Carbondale, Illinois
Ty Tuff, Nayani is flying Earth lab's large remote sensing drone over field sites on Niwot ridge. It takes a brave person to fly Earth Lab's new drone for the first time.
Alison Banwell, Yellowstone National Park. July 2018
G. Garrett Campbell , A painter at work near Lake Towada, Japan, August 2018.
John Cassano, An earth bound cloud, lit by the rising moon, drifts in front of the Milky Way over Bears Ears National Monument. August 2019, Bears Ears National Monument, Utah
Meghan Helmberger, Antenna in Longyearbyen, Svalbard on February 10,
Twila Moon, A glacier retreats along the edge of the Juneau Icefield, Alaska.
Lianna Nixon, A young female polar bear walks across the ice. She slowly walks across with her head picked up in search of seal pups that dot the icy surface. March 2019, Svalbard.
Lianna Nixon, A 3-year old brown bear male walked the rocky coastline with his sibling looking for salmon. As they approached a small alcove, he snapped at a fish and triumphantly carried his prize until he found a dry place to eat. September 2019, Katmai National Park.
Bruce Raup, a group of people exploring the Perito Moreno Glacier, South Patagonia, Argentina, on October 25, 2019.
Bruce Raup, love in the Air: Two Andean White Butterflies mate on a branch in the forest below Mt. Fitzroy, South Patagonia, Argentina. October, 2019.
Jennifer Walton, A supercell spins in a field barely beginning to green. Shortly after taking this photo we were hit with ~60mph outflow winds, causing a strong dust storm. Near WaKeeney, Kansas. April 21, 2019.
Reflection of the U.S. Coast Guard C-130 aircraft over the Alaskan sea ice north of Deadhorse, AK during an Arctic Domain Awareness (ADA) flight, 2017. Photographer: Bianca Baier
Biking under the Northern Lights outside of Longyearbyen, Norway, 2018.
Photographer: John Cassano
New arrivals at Amundsen-Scott South Pole Station exit an LC-130 Hercules aircraft.
Photographer: Glenn Grant
Great Blue Heron, Lake Martin, Louisiana, 2017.
Photographer: Alison Banwell
Adelie penguin in a hurry on the McMurdo Ice Shelf, Antarctica, 2016.
Photographer: Alison Banwell
White Sands National Monument, 2016.
Photographer: Michael Rhodes
The 14,000-foot Maroon Bells rise above the landscape outside Aspen, Colorado, 2017.
Photographer: Patrick Cullis
Where did I put my keys? Searching for an old GPS marker, Pomerantz Solar Observatory, South Pole, 1999.
Photographer: Mike Willis
Blooming bromeliad at the CU Greenhouse, 2017.
Photographer: Garrett Campbell
Ascending Iztaccihuatl with Popocatepetl in the view, Mexico, 2015.
Photographer: Candida Dewes
A chipmunk begs for a snack at Peyto Lake, Candian Rockies, 2013.
Photographer: Allen Pope
Alison Banwell, Yellowstone National Park. July 2018
G. Garrett Campbell , A painter at work near Lake Towada, Japan, August 2018.
John Cassano, An earth bound cloud, lit by the rising moon, drifts in front of the Milky Way over Bears Ears National Monument. August 2019, Bears Ears National Monument, Utah
Meghan Helmberger, Antenna in Longyearbyen, Svalbard on February 10,
Twila Moon, A glacier retreats along the edge of the Juneau Icefield, Alaska.
Lianna Nixon, A young female polar bear walks across the ice. She slowly walks across with her head picked up in search of seal pups that dot the icy surface. March 2019, Svalbard.
Lianna Nixon, A 3-year old brown bear male walked the rocky coastline with his sibling looking for salmon. As they approached a small alcove, he snapped at a fish and triumphantly carried his prize until he found a dry place to eat. September 2019, Katmai National Park.
Bruce Raup, a group of people exploring the Perito Moreno Glacier, South Patagonia, Argentina, on October 25, 2019.
Bruce Raup, love in the Air: Two Andean White Butterflies mate on a branch in the forest below Mt. Fitzroy, South Patagonia, Argentina. October, 2019.
Jennifer Walton, A supercell spins in a field barely beginning to green. Shortly after taking this photo we were hit with ~60mph outflow winds, causing a strong dust storm. Near WaKeeney, Kansas. April 21, 2019.
Alison Banwell, Unloading a Twin Otter: The only way to unload a 200 kg fuel drum from a twin otter. Fossil Bluff, Antarctica. November 2019.
Adam Manhood, Intern Dylan Murphy is measuring the horizontal fuel continuity of a post-fire plant community in Pumpernickel Valley, Nevada. Three years before, this was a completely different landscape of evergreen shrubs that burned in a large wildfire. The dead shrubs in the foreground actually survived the fire, and subsequently died from drought stress because the invasive grasses that dominate the post-fire landscape changed the soil hydrology.
Anne Sheehan, Researchers repairing bear-damaged seismometer at Naknek Lake, Alaska, May 2019. L to R: Mel Zhang (CIRES), Pnina Miller (New Mexico Tech), Anne Sheehan (CIRES)