The Warner College of Natural Resources is involved in a very broad range of research programs listed below.  There are also a large number of individual faculty research areas of interest .

• Center for Applied Isotope Research for Industry and Environment (AIRIE Program)
• Center for Ecological Applications of Lidar (CEAL)
• Center for Environmental Management of Military Lands (CEMML)
• Center of Geospatial Science and Modeling (COGSAM)
• Center for Riparian Ecology and Management
• Colorado Cooperative Fish and Wildlife Research Unit
• Colorado Forest Restoration Institute (CFRI)
• Colorado Natural Heritage Program
• Ecological Risk Assessment and Management
• Fire Economics and Management Laboratory
• Fisheries Ecology Laboratory
• Human Dimensions in Natural Resources Unit
  
• Larval Fish Laboratory
• Natural Resource Ecology Laboratory
• Restoration Ecology Laboratory
• Shortgrass Steppe Long Term Ecological Research
• Western Forest Fire Research Center (WESTFIRE)