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Babs Buttenfield received the National Research Award by the UCGIS

Aug. 21, 2024

Babs Buttenfield received the national research award by the UCGIS (University Consortium for Geographic Information Science), for significant contributions to geospatial data generalization and modeling, multi-scale mapping and geodatabase design, most notably through her continuing Research Faculty affiliation with the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) Center for Excellence in Geospatial Information...

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Babs Buttenfield Presented With USGS 2023 CaGIS Distinguished Career Award

April 24, 2023

Reprinted from CaGIS Website Dr. Barbara Buttenfield is a Professor Emerita of Geography at the University of baby直播app where she is also the Director of the Meridian Research Lab which develops GIS applications and explores algorithm design and testing to advance knowledge about GIScience. She has had an illustrious and...

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Babs Buttenfield Presents Keynote Address at CEGIS Conference

Aug. 2, 2022

Babs Buttenfield presented the opening keynote address this morning at the USGS Center for Excellence in Geospatial Science (CEGIS) Annual Research Conference in Rolla Missouri. The title of her talk was "The Trouble with Geospatial Science: Unsolved Problems, Unresolved Obstacles". The CEGIS vision is to conduct, lead, and influence the...

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Babs Buttenfield Awarded AAG Distinguished Teaching Honors

Dec. 15, 2020

PRESS RELEASE Embargoed for Tuesday, December 15, 2020 WASHINGTON, D.C鈥.The American Association of Geographers (AAG) announced the recipients of its 2021 AAG Honors, the highest honors bestowed on its members. Distinguished Teaching Honors Barbara 鈥淏abs鈥 Buttenfield , University of baby直播app-Boulder, for her career-long devotion to GIScience education. Buttenfield, who established...

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What a Long, Strange Trip It鈥檚 Been

I鈥檝e been asked to reflect on my efforts to build a GIS curriculum here at CU-Boulder. When I arrived on campus in January 1996, there wasn鈥檛 an actual curriculum in place, just a single GIS class offered intermittently by part-time lecturers. One was Loey Knapp, a full-time employee at the...

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Babs Buttenfield: Technology changing how people use maps, how they're created

Jan. 13, 2020

Babs Buttenfield was interviewed for a Channel 7 (Denver 7) TV News spot about how technology has changed how people use maps. Posted: 4:45 PM, Jan 03, 2020, Updated: 4:58 PM, Jan 03, 2020, By: Chloe Nordquist, Channel 7 News, Denver Maps have changed over the years and so has...

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Babs Participates in Alzheimer's Fundraiser

Aug. 11, 2018

On August 11, Professor Barbara "babs" Buttenfield participated in a fund-raising walk to raise money for the Walk to End Alzheimer's, honoring our geography colleague Professor David Hill, who passed away recently from the disease. Held annually in more than 600 communities nationwide, the Alzheimer's Association Walk to End Alzheimer鈥檚庐...

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Babs Elected Parliamentarian of the Arts and Sciences Council

April 26, 2018

Barbara "babs" Buttenfield has been elected as the inaugural Parliamentarian of the Arts and Sciences Council (ASC), which is the baby直播app senate for the College of Arts & Sciences. This is a new officer position, added to the ASC ByLaws this spring to accommodate and support the increased complexities of...

Geography Department featured in baby直播app Arts and Sciences Magazine

April 27, 2017

"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 geography" by CU's Clint Talbott featuring the Geography Department has been published in...

Prof reappointed to U.S. Census Science Advisory Committee (CSAC)

March 1, 2016

Barbara 'babs' Buttenfield was reappointed to CSAC by the Director of the Census Bureau for a second three year term. CSAC members advise the Census Bureau director on the uses of scientific developments in statistical data collection, survey methodology, geospatial and statistical analysis, econometrics, business operations and computer science as...

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