Jennifer Balch

AGU, the world's largest Earth and space science association, celebrates individuals and teams through its annual Honors and Recognition program for their accomplishments in research, education, science communication, and

The Environmental Data Science Innovation and Impact Lab (ESIIL), a next-generation NSF synthesis center directed by Geography Professor Jennifer Balch, hosted its third annual Innovation Summit this September, bringing

CIRES Fellow Jennifer Balch was named a 2025 AGU Fellow. Balch is the director of CU Boulder’s Environmental Data Science Innovation & Impact Lab (ESIIL) and a professor of Geography.

New national center at CU Boulder will tackle pressing socio-environmental challenges with big data analytics, more The National Science Foundation (NSF) has funded a major new data science and diversity effort at

This panel of scholars will put Brazil’s recent period of forest fires into a larger historic, political perspective.  Moderated by Joe Bryan, Associate Professor, GeographyPanelistsPeter Newton  Assistant Professor, Environmental Studies

The U.S. Geological Survey has selected a University of Colorado Boulder team to host the North Central Climate Adaptation Science Center for the next five years, in a move that will foster both innovation and

New CU Boulder-led research shows that three major “switches” affecting wildfire—fuel, aridity and ignition—were either flipped on and/or kept on longer than expected last year, triggering one of the largest and costliest U.S. wildfire seasons

Geography professor Jennifer Balch has been named a RIO Faculty Fellow. The Research & Innovation Office (RIO) Faculty Fellows Program is a campus-wide research and creative works leadership program that

Hear Geography Professor Jennifer Balch discuss "How Will The Wildfires Of Today Fuel The Fires Of Tomorrow?" on Science Friday.This year, 50,000 wildfires have burned 8.5 million acres of land in the United States.

"Encompassing South American wildfires, Arctic sea-ice retreat, post-Soviet politics, climate change in Tibet and GIS, CU Boulder geographers keep their fingers on the pulse of a changing world"A new article titled "This is not your junior-high