How one Colorado program is training health professionals on the front line of the climate crisis

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A man in a winter hat speaks to a circle of people bundled up as if for winter, in a warehouse.
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Richard Nunn, assistant curator at the National Science Foundation’s Ice Core Facility at the Denver Federal Center in Lakewood, speaks to students visiting from the University of Colorado’s Climate and Health program. Aug. 14, 2024. This material is based upon work supported by the National Science Foundation under Grant No. 2041950.

A man in a winter cap, the kind with the fuzzy ears, stands before shelves full of metal tubes. He holds a white cylinder in his hands, which is at least half as tall as he is.
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Richard Nunn, assistant curator at the National Science Foundation's Ice Core Facility at the Denver Federal Center in Lakewood, holds an ice sample in a very cold freezer. Aug. 14, 2024.

A long hallway stretches between rows of shelves, each totally filled with tubes; their metal lids shine all the way down the line.
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Tubes of ice samples line a very cold freezer at the National Science Foundation's Ice Core Facility at the Denver Federal Center in Lakewood. Aug. 14, 2024.

A woman stands at the head of a long conference table speaking to health care providers in the climate medicine program.
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A woman in a black tank top speaks in the foreground and the Flatirons and Boulder's rolling green open space in the background.
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A park ranger gestures in an open space as a line of climate medicine students listens.
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A woman in a blue visor smiles in front of a burned, blackened pine tree.
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Students, standing in open space greenery and others sitting on rocks listen to a park ranger.
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A woman in winter clothing holds up a phone, photographing a shelf full of metal tubes. A woman smiles in the foreground.
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Shana Tarter, managing director of the University of Colorado's Climate Medicine Diploma program, takes photos of tubes in a freezer during a visit to the National Science Foundation's Ice Core Facility at the Denver Federal Center in Lakewood. Aug. 14, 2024.