Newsletters

Our spring and fall newsletters contain articles, research, news, and photos about the Geography Department's baby直播app, students, and alumni.

CONTENTS

  • Message from the Department Chair
  • COP27 Conference on Climate Change
  • Jill Harrison Research Overview
  • Cryosphere 2022 International Symposium
  • Mountain Snowpack and the Western Drought
  • Cartography - the Good, the Bad, and the Ugly
  • Center for Asian Studies Grant
  • Revolution in Environmental Science
  • Student Research Updates
  • Alumni Updates

Table of Contents

  • Message from the Department Chair, pg 3-4
  • NSF award will support Karimzadeh and team in fusing heterogeneous large earth data for sea ice mapping, pg 5
  • Mark Serreze: Arctic Specialization, pg 6
  • Heide Bruckner: Building classroom-community connections in the time of COVID-19, pgs 7-8
  • Barbara 鈥淏abs鈥 Buttenfield: What a Long, Strange Trip It鈥檚 Been, pg 9-10
  • Introducing Guofeng Cao, Assistant Professor of Geography, pg 11
  • Introducing Dr. Rachel Isaacs, Instructor, pg 12-13 Department N ews, pg 14-17
  • Alumni Updates, pg 18
  • Donor Support, pgs 19-20
  • Message from the Department Chair, pg 2
  • 鈥婱ara Goldman: Reaction to Coronavirus, pg 3
  • Page Hartwell: An Undergraduate's Perspective on COVID-19, pg 4
  • Satellite-based snowpack information to inform water resource management during the COVID-19 pandemic, pgs 5-7
  • Professors Seeking COVID-19 Funding, pg 8
  • Human Geography Dimensions of COVID-19 in China, pg 8
  • New Faculty: Introducing A. Marie Ranjbar, pg 9
  • Narrating Nature: book by Mara Goldman, pg 10
  • Emily Yeh: Sabbatical Report: Pastoralists of the Upper Yangtze, pgs 11-12
  • Alumnus Update: Brooke E. Marston, pg 13
  • Department News, pg 14
  • Donor Support, pgs 15-16

Table  of Contents

  • Message from the Department Chair, pg 2
  • Editors' Comments, pg 3
  • Mark Serreze Named Distinguished Professor, pgs 4-5
  • The Boulder Affordable Housing Research Initiative, pgs 6-7
  • Introducing Morteza Karimzadeh, Assistant Professor, pgs 8-9
  • Introducing Heide Bruckner, Instructor, pgs 9-10
  • Emily Yeh Sabbatical Notes: Post-disaster trajectories in mountainous Chinese village, pgs 11-12
  • Alumni Updates, pg 13
  • Department News, pg 14
  • Donor Support, pgs 15-16

Contents

  • Bill Travis: Message from the Chair, pgs 2-3
  • von Dreden Stacey Fellowship Winners, pgs 4-6
  • Mark Serreze: Climate Change Becomes Persona (Non Grata), pgs 6-8
  • Introducing Caitlin McShane, New Graduate Student, pgs 8-9
  • Introducing Katherine Lininger, New Faculty Member, pg 10
  • Seth Spielman鈥檚 鈥淒ouble Life鈥, pg 11
  • Mara Goldman: Examining Nature-Society Relations Across Boundaries, pgs 12-13
  • A Career in Geography, Dr. Lionel D. Lyles, PhD, 1977, pgs 14-15
  • Alumni Updates, pg 16
  • Department News, pg 17
  • Donor Support, pgs 18-19

 

 

 

 

    

Articles include: 

  • Message from the chair
  • John Pitlick: Guggenheim in the rearview mirror
  • Stefan Leyk: Extracting Geospatial Data from Historical Maps 
  • Fernando Riosmena: Is Climate Change A Driver of Migration?
  • Dylan Lanka: Solifluction Erosion
  • Kai Kresek: Perception of Neighborhood Space
  • Earth Lab Launches New Professional Certificate in Earth Data Analytics
  • Department News

Inside this issue:

  • Message from the Chair, pg 2
  • Tom Veblen Named CU Distinguished Professor, pg 3
  • Mark Serreze Named Professor of Distinction, pg 6
  • Yaffa Truelove, New Geography Faculty Member, pg 6
  • New Geography Instructors, Mike Dwyer and Sarah Kelly, pg 8
  • Graduate Student IGNITE Talks, pg 11 Department News, pg 14
  • Donor Support, pg 15 
  • Message from the Department Chair: Emily Yeh provides an overview of recent news relating to the department.
  • Project Fire: Human-started wildfires expand the fire niche across the United States.
  • Featured Articles
    • Hamid Zoraghein from Tehran to Boulder.
    • Galen Murton, graduating PhD.
    • Jennifer Fluri鈥檚 new book.
  • Spotlight on Faculty: Babs Buttenfield, Waleed Abdalati, Mara Goldman, Tim Oakes.
  • Student News: Robert Andrus, Angela Cunningham, Zhaxi Duojie, Mehran Ghandehari, Eric Lovell, Kyle Rodman, Adam Mahood, Rupak Shrestha, Sierra Gladfelter, Meredith DeBoom, and Joel Correia.
  • Alumni News: Ian Rowen, Sarah Hart, Yonten Nyima, and Terry V. McIntyre.
  • Emily Yeh provides an overview of recent news and changes in the department
  • Welcome New Faculty: Introducing Colleen Reid and her work
  • Profiles of Scholarship Winners
  • We were proud to award six fellowships to these undergraduate students:
  • Jasper Schneider, Katie Weimer, Joshua Temes, Kristina Cowell, Nick Whittemore, and Brooke Long
  • Faculty Research: Peter Blanken. Barbara Buttenfield.
  • Faculty News: Tom Veblen, Seth Spielman
  • Department News: Alumnus Risto Marttinen. Grad students: Mehran Ghandehari, Robbie Andrus, Alice Hill, Alana Wilson, Aaron Malone, and Eric Lovell
  • Emily Yeh gives an overview of recent news and changes in the department
  • Spotlight on Faculty
    • Peter Blanken on the UN Climate Change Conference
    • Fernando Riosmena discusses Negative Acculturation
    • Mara Goldman provides an update on her various projects
  • Featured Student Articles
    • Abe Solberg: Visual Media's Influence on Land Policy
    • Andrea Baeza Breinbauer: Movement and Space
  • Alumni News: Richard Heede, Ronald Cossman, Janet Go, Yu Luo Rioux, Julie Crea Dunba, David H. Hickox, Dana Ziemba 
  • Faculty News: Mark Serreze, Stefan Leyk, John O鈥橪oughlin, Barbara Buttenfield, Emily Yeh, Noah Moloch, Peter Blanken
  • Emily Yeh gives an overview of recent news and changes in the department
  • Welcome New Faculty: Introducing Carson Farmer and his work
  • Profiles of Scholarship Winners: This year, we were proud to award six fellowships to these undergraduate students
  • Faculty News
    • Waleed Abdalati speaks at the White House; co-chairs national committee
    • Jennifer Fluri and the Boulder Affordable Housing Research Initiative
    • Jennifer Balch leads Earth Lab research project; gets fire experiment published in Bioscience journal
    • John O鈥橪oughlin wins gold medal
    • Suzanne Anderson and the baby直播app flood
  • Featured Student Articles: Jennifer Bloom, Caitlin McShane, Kate Gregory, Meagan Todd
  • Alumni News
  • Topics of interest
  • Message from Geography Chair, Emily Yeh 
  • Featured Faculty Articles
    • Joe Bryan
    • Suzanne Anderson
  • Featured Student Articles: Jessica Barnes, Chris Jochem
  • Featured Alumnus: Donna Rubinoff 
  • Faculty/Student News: Succinctly salient summaries of  bits and bytes, this and that, and who, what, where. 
  • Message from Geography Chair, Emily Yeh 
  • New Faculty:
    • Jennifer Balch, assistant professor.
    • Jennifer Fluri, associate professor
  • Featured Students: Jessica Bobeck, Rory Cowie, Chris Anderson-Tarver, Madison Musgrave
  • Featured Faculty: Jennifer Fluri, Jennifer Balch, Mark Williams, Tim Oakes
  • Featured Alumni: Succinctly salient summaries of  bits and bytes, this and that, and who, what, where.
  • Recent publications, grants, awards, & graduate placements: Check out the impressive list of selected job placements, grants, recognitions, and publications.  This list includes more recent achievements. 

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