Water & Climate

Hildah Namigga with poster at CFANS Research Symposium.

Innovation and community: Recapping the fourth annual CFANS Research Symposium
Report to the Legislature cover.

UMN team contributes to comprehensive study on the costs of climate change for Minnesota
A frozen river in winter.

Minnesota climate projections from UMN detail winter warming, extreme precipitation, and lake temperature trends
Statewide Impact Map shown on a tablet.

University of Minnesota CFANS and CBS: Introducing the Statewide Impact Map

Della Schall Young

Leadership with purpose
The Sentinel-2 satellite orbiting Earth.

How CFANS researchers are using AI and satellite data to address global challenges
students learning video technology

What CFANS students are learning this semester
Trees in a dome at the Marcell Research Center.

Inside the SPRUCE experiment

What We Learned in 2025

What we learned in 2025
A tree during flooding along the Mississippi River in St. Paul in 2024.

CFANS research offers significant improvements in flood forecasting
Kowsar Mohamed (left) and Sutirtha Lahiri (right)

CFANS graduate students attend COP30 United Nations Climate Summit
Three images of people holding alligator gar by the river.

CFANS students reel in a fin-tastic catch during Mississippi River fieldwork