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The fall began with an excitement and energy reminiscent of semesters prior to the COVID-19 pandemic. The Department of Geography welcomed two new babyֱ��app members, Assistant Professor Melisa Diaz and Associate Professor Jill Harrison. Dr. Diaz’s research interests include Geochemistry and Biochemistry of the cryosphere and urban environments. She received her PhD in Earth Science from Ohio State University in 2020 and joined our babyֱ��app from Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution where she was a postdoctoral scholar. Dr. Jill Harrison joined the Department of Geography as an Associate Professor after transferring to Geography from the Sociology Department. Dr. Harrison’s research interests include Environmental Justice, Environmental Politics, Political Ecology, Agriculture and Food Systems. 

Dr. Fernando Riosmena, who has been a member of the babyֱ��app in the Department of Geography and the Institute of Behavioral Science since 2007, will resign at the end of this academic year and will join the babyֱ��app at the University of Texas, San Antonio. Dr. Riosmena’s departure is an enormous loss for our department, and he will be greatly missed. We also extend our congratulations and many warm wishes to him.

Our babyֱ��app continue to contribute excellent scholarship to the Discipline of Geography and related fields. I would like to highlight the accomplishments and contributions of a few of our babyֱ��app. Emeritus Professor, Barbara (Babs) Buttenfield presented the opening keynote to the USGS Center for Excellence in Geospatial Science (CEGIS) Annual Research Conference in Rolla Missouri. Professor Tim Oakes, who is currently the interim director of the Center for Asian Studies, was instrumental in securing a $2.2 million grant for this center. This grant from the U.S. Department of Education will support the Center for Asian Studies as a National Resource Center in Asian studies and provide foreign language and area studies fellowships for students at CU-Boulder. Professor Emily Yeh and her PhD advisee Emma Loizeaux attended the COP27 UN Climate Change Conference in Sharm El-Sheikh, Egypt. On December 1, 2022, Professor Waleed Abdalati, CIRES Director, testified before the U.S. Senate Subcommittee on Space and Science as part of a hearing on “Landstat at 50 & the Future of U.S. Satellite-based Earth Observation”. 

The Department of Geography organized two major events in conjunction with National Geography Awareness Week. Sarah Kelly, Teaching Assistant Professor, working with Geography Librarian, Dr. Phil White, organized GIS Day 2002 on Friday, November 4th. This event included both in-person and virtual attendance in collaboration with the Auraria Campus of CU Denver and the CU babyֱ��app Springs campus. The second event was our first annual Geography Buff Trivia Night. Graduate Student, Gabriella Subia Smith was the lead organizer for this event, which occurred on November 10, 2022. Over fifty students both graduate and undergraduate attended this event and enjoyed food and fun, while the top three winning teams received prizes.

In closing, we ask that you to save the date for our Alumni and Friends Celebration in Guggenheim Building this spring semester on March 25, 2022. We hope you will join us! We can promise you a fun filled night of food, drinks, activities, and walk down memory lane. More information and invitations to follow. 

Best wishes to you and yours for happy holiday season.

Our goal was to focus on the role of China at COP27 in terms of climate discourses and the question of scale in climate (in)justice. In particular, we hoped to pay particular attention to advocacy of Carbon Capture, Utilization and Storage (CCUS) and “nature-based solutions” (NbS); and positions on climate adaptation finance, and loss and damage. We generally began our days at the constituency meetings of RINGO (Research and Independent NGOs) to meet other researchers and orient ourselves toward the negotiations happening that day.  We then divided our time between side events, particularly those at the China Pavilion, and observing negotiating sessions that were open to observers.  We focused on negotiations on Article 6 of the Paris Agreement (on “cooperative approaches” to achieving Nationally Determined Contributions, including creating a global emissions market); the Global Goal on Adaptation; a financial mechanism for loss and damage; and in the last two days, heated negotiations over the text of the cover decision.  

As was widely reported, numerous infrastructural problems plagued the conference.  In its first few days, there was inadequate water to drink, food was outrageously priced within the isolated, fenced venue, participants spotted at least one sewage flood, and most observers could not watch sessions because there were far too few seats and security did not allow observers to sit on the floor.  While most of these issues were resolved by the second week, sound systems remained a problem in the temporary structures that housed some of the negotiating rooms.  Where headsets were not available, blowing fans, frequent airplanes flying overhead, and generally bad acoustics made it quite difficult to follow sessions in these rooms.  Delegates also spent a lot of time complaining to session co-facilitators about not receiving draft negotiating texts with adequate time to review, and arguing about whether future working sessions on various agenda items should be in-person or hybrid, and on the merits of Word vs PDF documents for group work.

Because of our focus on negotiations and on China-related side events, we did not make it out to the Green Zone, the space for civil society and others without official badges.  Though advertised as being “just across the street” from the official (“Blue Zone”) venue, it was in fact difficult to get there, and others reported that little was happening there beyond exhibits by local Egyptian artists and activities.  Adjacent to the Green Zone was a designated “demonstration area,” a marker of the host country’s authoritarian approach to the tradition of significant street protests just beyond the COP gates. Because of the demonstration zone’s distance from the venue itself, most activist groups boycotted this space, instead focusing attention on winning UN approval for protests within the Blue Zone, where participants would be limited to those with conference badges but where visibility to negotiators, the media, and conference-goers would be higher. We witnessed Blue Zone protests that included singing and chants of “1.5 to stay alive!” “The people united will never be defeated!”, “System change, not climate change,” “Climate justice now!” and the ever-popular “Fossil of the Day” ceremony (awarded to countries who “are doing the most to achieve the least.”) 

Despite the presence of activists and pavilions dedicated to Climate Justice and Indigenous Peoples, the larger pavilion space, which included both country and organization pavilions, was very corporate in message and feel. Greenwashing was prevalent. An unprecedented 636 fossil fuel lobbyists attended the COP – a greater number than all but one country delegation. The Business pavilion listed Chevron and Exxon-Mobil as being among its “partners.”  OPEC had a pavilion and the Gulf States all had gigantic pavilions. Because of the expense of the pavilions, on the other hand, many sub-Saharan African states had pavilions with multiple sponsors – including oil companies.  

The fact that there was finally an agreement, however vague, to establish a fund for Loss and Damage, was the only notably positive outcome – and one that was the culmination of years of activism. Although President Biden, in his plenary hall speech, apologized for the U.S. withdrawal from Paris and proclaimed that “the United States is meeting the climate crisis with urgency and with determination,”¹ within the negotiating rooms U.S. delegates could be seen dragging their feet on numerous technical points. On loss and damage, they argued that existing funds should be used for this purpose, that more studies are needed on the issue, that a lengthy roll-out timeline will be necessary, and ultimately required that the text specify that the fund has nothing to do with “liability” or “compensation.”  Such tactics were met with frustration and sometimes derision from other Parties. Representatives from Saudi Arabia, China, and other members of the Like-Minded Developing Country negotiating group argued against the 1.5 degree goal, and against any mention of fossil fuels.  Although 1.5 fortunately remained, fossil fuels were omitted from the final cover decision.  The intent is clear: to allow “mitigation” efforts to focus on CCUS and other technological solutions that allow continued extraction and burning of fossil fuels, despite high costs and uncertain mitigation benefits, instead of reductions in consumption and pursuit of the “just transition” that climate justice advocates at the COP so clearly called for.   Actors from many countries, including the US, are pushing these technologies, arguing that “the math” says that it is the only option – despite much evidence to the contrary and despite activists’ arguments against false solutions. 

¹ https://www.whitehouse.gov/briefing-room/speeches-remarks/2022/11/11/remarks-by-president-biden-at-the-27th-conference-of-the-parties-to-the-framework-convention-on-climate-change-cop27-sharm-el-sheikh-egypt/

Images of COP27 from Emily and Emma

She is building upon this research in several ways that contribute to theoretical debates on the prospects for fostering environmental justice through engaging with the state. First, she is reviewing the extent to which and how scholars have recognized the contributions of bureaucratic creativity to environmental change, documenting techniques through which bureaucrats effect change in support of environmental justice within bureaucracies, and exploring unique creative practices used by EJ movement activists who get hired into staff positions within environmental regulatory agencies. 

Mark Serreze attended the "Cryosphere 2022 International Symposium in Ice, Snow and Water in a Warming World", and gave a keynote talk on "The Future of Arctic Sea Ice".  The symposium, held in Reykjavik Iceland from August 16-22, was attended by hundreds of cryospheric scientists and students from around the globe who presented the latest results on changes in our planet''s snow and ice cover and how these changes are affecting the developed world, developing nations and indigenous peoples. The Symposium was hosted by the Icelandic Meteorological Office and numerous international partners.   The formal conference was followed by a three-day excursion to observe, first hand, the rapid shrinkage Iceland's ice caps and glaciers.

Noah Molotch, associate professor of Geography, and INSTAAR hydrologist with a joint appointment at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory, and CU-Boulder colleague Leanne Lestak have been using 20 years of satellite data of snow-covered area, along with the SNOTEL data, to generate close to real-time estimates of snow water equivalent for use by the U.S. Bureau of Reclamation. Their modeling effort can fill the gaps that ground monitoring doesn’t cover, particularly at certain elevations. In a series of interviews with the  and , Molotch said:

 “Snowpack in the Sierra is an important water resource for California, supplying around one-third of the state’s freshwater supply. Winter storms typically bring generous amounts of snow, which melt as temperatures rise in April. The meltwater runoff helps replenish rivers, reservoirs and groundwater.

Because of a historically dry winter, the statewide snowpack stood at 38 percent of its average at the end of the season on April 1. The little snowpack that accumulated in the southern Sierra had fully melted by May 24, leaving no additional freshwater supply for the hot months ahead.”

“The map above shows the snow water equivalent for the Sierra Nevada, or how much liquid water was contained in the snowpack on April 1 this year compared to its 20-year average. The data, modeled weekly by the’s Institute of Arctic and Alpine Research, is used by water forecasters, managers, irrigators, public utilities and many other parties.”

““What matters most is how much snow is on the ground on April 1st, because that’s really the indicator of the total amount of snow that accumulated for the whole winter,” said Noah P. Molotch, a hydrologist with the monitoring project and a professor at the University of babyֱ��app at Boulder. This year’s depletion of the snowpack followed lackluster winters in 2020 and 2021, making this the third dry year in a row for California.”

“Molotch said 2022’s winter snow is likely to rank among the smallest five annual snowpacks since 2000. The lowest snowpack occurred in 2015, when accumulation was less than 10 percent of the average. California has not fully recovered from 2015, Molotch said.”

The use of excessive labels makes this map difficult to read.

Map making is often approached with little understanding of effective cartographic techniques, which can lead to a map not meeting its intended purpose, or worse, completely misleading its reader. In her talk, Sarah covered basic cartographic conventions such as using visual variables, applying symbol hierarchy, and using color effectively. The presentation was interactive and included examples of both effective and not-so-effective maps. The presentation was extremely well received by attendees and conference organizers. 

Professor Oakes is the Principal Investigator on the ChinaMade project, where he organized and hosted the 4th ChinaMade  (“From ‘China Model’ to Global China”) in May at the University of Toronto’s Munk School of Global Affairs and Public Policy. This was the final workshop of the ChinaMade project and featured scholars from the US, UK, Canada, Switzerland, Germany, Singapore, Hong Kong, and Sweden. Professor Emily Yeh of the Department of Geography also participated.

As a result of a workshop Prof. Oakes co-organized in Switzerland last year, ChinaMade has co-published two  on Chinese export development. These factsheets are public-facing and intended for a more general audience (in addition to the scholarly work and books published by Oakes).

And as Principal Investigator on the Tale of Two Asia’s project, Oakes also organized a workshop last April in Boulder on “China’s Nuclear Belt & Road: Socio-technical Perspectives on China’s Expert Nuclear Infrastructures.” The workshop featured presentations by scholars from the US, Canada, Australia and India.

New national center at CU Boulder will tackle pressing socio-environmental challenges with big data analytics, more

Funding of $20 million for 5 years will support collaborative research and education involving huge science datasets, innovative cyber infrastructure, machine-learning approaches to analysis, and engagement with decision makers and other stakeholders.

ESIIL, pronounced like the word “easel,” promises to empower a diverse community of researchers to turn environmental data into actionable knowledge, said ESIIL director Jennifer Balch, an associate professor of Geography and a fellow of CIRES. The metaphor of an easel is intentional, Balch said: “We want to be the structure to support vivid new science.” 

NSF and other agencies and organizations have established environmental networks and observatories that are generating vast amounts of open access environmental data—more data than can be analyzed to their full potential today, said Balch. So, she and colleagues from across CU Boulder, the University of Arizona, and the University of Oslo proposed building “a community of thousands” of researchers and students who know how to ask and answer important environmental questions with data.

University of Arizona research assistant professor Tyson Swetnam, part of the new center’s leadership team, is an informatician at , an NSF-funded cyberinfrastructure center. Swetnam said he can imagine ESIIL supporting a project, for example, by a student researcher located in rural Arizona who lacks access to large computing resources. With just a cell phone and intermittent broadband internet connection, she should be able to freely explore and analyze diverse datasets on the cloud, looking for evidence of, say, genetic resilience in spruce trees growing on the peaks of Arizona’s sky islands, where many species are threatened by warming, drought, pests and disease. 

“We want to support open data, open source software, open code…and open science,” Swetnam said. 

CU Boulder Computer Science professor Claire Monteleoni is another critical ESIIL leadership member, an expert in using machine learning in climate science who helped create the field of  a decade ago. Monteleoni said she’s especially inspired by ESIIL’s focus on team science. The lab will be studying itself, essentially, to help identify factors that help diverse teams work well together, as well as the impact of teamwork training. “I’ve spent the first chunk of my career trying to get people working on climate change to talk with people working on AI and machine learning,” Monteleoni said. “So it will be great to have lessons coming from team science as we connect these communities.”

Finally, ESIIL will involve students and communities. ESIIL’s Stars internship program, for example, will support students and babyֱ��app members from Oglala Lakota College, United Tribes Technical College, and Metropolitan State University of Denver, to start. And ESIIL’s Leaders program will support emerging scientists from underrepresented communities. 

Linking Tribes and Tribal colleges, other academic institutions, government agencies and private organizations, is a key characteristic of the new center, said James Rattling Leaf Sr., ESIIL’s Tribal liaison. “Effective partnerships and communication among these groups are needed to address major challenges facing our world and ESIIL is well positioned to address those challenges.”

Principal investigator: Jennifer Balch
Funding: National Science Foundation (NSF)
Collaboration/support:  at the University of Arizona; Cooperative Institute for Research in Environmental Sciences (CIRES) , Department of Computer Science,  , USGS ter, all at CU Boulder;  of Denver; ; e; and , Norway.

A high-altitude seasonal encampment for caterpillar fungus harvest in Dolpo, Nepal.

Phurwa D Gurung, PhD Candidate in Geography, received the competitive Social Science Research Council's International Dissertation Research Fellowship (SSRC IDRF) funded by the Mellon Foundation. Phurwa was selected from a total of 870 applicants from graduate students at 112 universities. This year's 60 awardees represent thirty-one universities and fourteen disciplines. The SSRC IDRF fellowship will fund a year-long ethnographic fieldwork in Dolpo, Northwest Nepal, for his dissertation research tentatively titled Reordering Highland Territories: State-building, indigeneity, and multispecies worldmaking. His dissertation takes caterpillar fungus as a lens to examine the ways in which state-led biodiversity conservation and resource extraction overlap and clash with Indigenous environmental governance in the Himalayas. 

Caterpillar fungus aka yartsa gunbu ("summer grass, winter worm"). Both photos by Phurwa.

I started my time at CU as an International Affairs major, but I loved my Geography classes, so (with strong backing from Dr. Abby Hickcox in the Geography department) I decided to extend my time at CU, adding Geography as a second major this past spring.

Since then I have been able to work on a couple of research projects within the Geography Department. These included helping Professor Colleen Reid with her research on the effects of wildfire smoke on children’s health. I was also part of Earth Lab where I was able to learn data science and programming skills and then apply them to a research project aiming to find the correlation ​between snowpack and streamflow levels of the upper babyֱ��app River.

Please join us in welcoming our incoming graduates for Fall 2022!

Back row: Millie Spenser, Priscilla (Pris) Corbett, Drolma Gadou, Briana Prado, Emma Barrett, Denise Mondragon, Mia Murray, Taylor O’Brien, Nathan Korinek, Ethan Carr; Middle row: Alaric Kothapally, Michele Lissoni, Aja Procita, Nic Tarasewicz, Patrick (Pat) Saylor, Isaiah Lyons-Galante; Front row: Sam Fixler, Jiacheng (Raymond) Zhou; Insert: Jill Adler Grano

Featured Updates

Isaiah Lyons-Galante

Originally from Boston, I went to Yale for a bachelor's degree in physics and mechanical engineering. With an interest in sustainable development internationally, I found my way to Kenya where I worked for 6 years with a start-up developing renewable energy projects in rural, off-grid areas. There, I learned about the power of remote sensing, GIS, and machine learning to study remote areas and make data-driven decisions. This brought me to CU in the Geography department to dive into geospatial data science, working with Morteza Karimzadeh in his GeoHuman AI Lab. I am interested in finding ways to apply statistics and deep learning models to remotely-sensed data to study remote regions of the world and to understand which factors lead to babyֱ��app growth and well-being in harmony with the environment. 

Nic Tarasewicz

I was raised in the San Juan Mountains in southwestern babyֱ��app, which started my interest in alpine environments. I completed my undergraduate degree in Geography from the University of Denver, and my Master’s in Physical Geography and Ecosystem Science at Lund University, Sweden. While there, I developed a novel composite indicator representing the impact of modeled forest management practices on ecosystem services. My research interests center around understanding climate and anthropogenic impacts on mountain ecosystem services through combining empirical measurements and modeling. I am working with Peter Blanken on INSTAAR’s Ecosystem Resilience Project, led by Keith Musselman, aiming to define and project climate-change refugia in the babyֱ��app Front Range. My hobbies include spending time outdoors, performance art, and playing board games with friends.

Ethan Carr

Growing up my greatest memories we’re visiting national parks with my family and learning about plants, animals, and the environment. As I grew up I never lost that passion and knew I wanted to make a career around being outdoors and learning. 

I received my Bachelors of Science in Physical Geography from the United States Military Academy, where I was a four year varsity athlete. Upon graduation I was commissioned as a Second Lieutenant in the Infantry. I recently changed career paths and knew that I wanted to make a difference in the world. I decided to combine my passion for nature, especially the Arctic, and my goals to make change and pursue a career in the natural sciences. The CU Geography department seemed like the perfect place to begin this journey. 

I hope to focus in Glaciology and Climate change specifically in Greenland. Upon finishing my masters I wish to pursue a PhD in a similar field.

Briana Prado

My name is Briana Prado, I am from San Diego, California, and studied Chemistry and Earth Science at UC Santa Cruz. I will be studying geochemistry and chemical weathering in the McMurdo Dry Valleys under Dr. Melissa Diaz. I am super stoked to be in Boulder, CO, and spend time outside hiking and biking and experiencing a true winter. 

This past summer I sharpened my U.S geography skills while cycling across the country from  Baltimore MD to San Francisco, CA with a group of 23 cyclists to raise funds for a cancer charity. The tour took us through 11 different states and 7 national parks over 70 days. We transverse mountain ranges such as the Appalachians, Rockies, and Sierra Nevada Mountains, and crossed the Mississippi, Missouri, and babyֱ��app Rivers. 

Fun Fact: I visited CU Boulder for the first time during the bike ride when we had a rest day in Boulder. This was the day before biked before heading into Estes Park through highway 34 and then biking into Rocky Mountain National Park and climbing trail ridge! 

I had so much fun that I would 100% do it again. These days you’ll probably catch me riding my red single-speed bike called Tessie around campus.

Photos from Briana's Cross-country Cycling Trip

In 2008 and 2009, a severe drought swept through much of Kenya and Tanzania. Nomadic herders, or pastoralists, such as the Maasai people in Tanzania, pushed south in search of greener expanses, bringing tens of thousands of cattle with them. 

What happened next was largely unprecedented: Locals from a region of Tanzania called Manyara, who were also Maasai, evicted the newcomers, beating some so badly they ended up in the hospital. 

Terrence McCabe, professor of anthropology at CU Boulder, has lived and worked with pastoralist groups in the region for more than 30 years. For him, that sudden and shocking violence was a symbol of a changing East Africa—a warning sign that people such as the Maasai  as freely as they used to. Survey results from the last two years in central Kenya show that life for pastoralist peoples may be getting even worse. Herders are struggling to feed their families in the midst of a pandemic, a historic locust invasion and drought after drought.

Alex Posen

This fall, I came back to campus to take UAS for Earth Observations as I transitioned into a new job. I recently accepted a position at ESRI, where I am working as a Solutions Engineer in the Imagery and Remote Sensing department. Specifically, I’m supporting ESRI’s drone mapping software and providing technical solutions for their drone mapping clients. I’ll also provide outreach for UAS mapping and enjoy some field work. 

It has been an amazing experience getting to apply my classwork directly to my job. My time at CU has prepared me quite well for my career so far. Thanks to all the babyֱ��app in the geography department who supported me along the way! 

A high off-nadir image of the Fitz Roy Massif in Patagonia, Argentina. Taken by World View 3.

One of Maxar’s new World View Legion satellites that will launch on a Space X rocket in January 2023.

Enjoying the benefits of remote working in Chamonix, France.

Today I work at Maxar Technologies, a leader in Aerospace and Earth Intelligence. I was able to secure my position in March of 2022, three months after graduation. This came with immense relief as I frequently heard that this process can take several months to a year.

I now work on a global team that supports public and private sector customers in using one of our flagship products, SecureWatch. SecureWatch is an online platform which allows users to access our 10+ petabyte archive of high-resolution imagery, collected over the past 20 years. Customers can also order new imagery, provided by our constellation of Low Earth Orbiting (LEO) satellites. We collect nearly 4 million square kilometers of new imagery per day. Working in the geospatial industry is amazing, but I must say that I dearly miss all of the special experiences and lectures during my time at the Geography Department.

Thanks to CU, I have my dream job. I absolutely wouldn't have ended up here without my Geography degree. I think the cross-curricular nature of geography prepared me well for not only my job, but also simply in navigating life as an educated, informed, and active citizen. I feel lucky that I'm in a position to use my knowledge and experience to educate others in my writing and in the curriculum that I create. And, of course, I've been thrilled to give back by working with those just beginning their careers in Geography.

My sons are also CU graduates. Although I desperately wanted them to study geography, they ended up on the other side of campus: Grant graduated with a master's degree in aerospace engineering in 2019. My younger son, Joey, earned his BS in Applied Math and Electrical Engineering in 2021 and will graduate with his MS in Electrical Engineering this December.

After graduating in May 2020 (class of COVID-19, woohoo! Just kidding...) it took me a while to figure out work. But two years later, I’m now in the second job where I’ve used my Geography skills in some form. For almost a year I worked at a local news outlet, where I got to do environmentally oriented stories on hellish wildfires, terrifying drought, recycling, and more. Now I’m working at a state conservation program, using my cartography skills in ArcGIS Pro and then traveling around the state to monitor key species, especially plants, on properties with voluntary conservation agreements. When I have free time, I volunteer with my county as an interpretive naturalist, helping people understand and connect with the local environment. It took two years and lots of turmoil, but I finally feel like I’m using what I learned in the Geography program to its full extent! My job is a seasonal position, so I know things will change soon enough, but I guess this is to say that the right circumstances to make the most of a college degree (and overall experience — I frequently use skills I practiced in my minor, as well) may fall into place when you’re least expecting it.

My current job feels like a fantastic continuation of my Geography knowledge and skills, but even when I haven’t done as directly geographic work, I still have found it immensely useful in understanding the world. The multiplicity of crises we’ve been dealing with — a public health pandemic, climate change, urbanization/development vs. land conservation, environmental justice — all of these and more were topics I learned about at CU, and that background knowledge has served me well as I watch them play out in real time.

I miss y’all over there! Though I joined the Geography program a bit late, it felt very welcoming, like an intellectual home, and I hope that has been a silver lining for the students who have continued through the pandemic.

Remote Sensing instruments and maps

My advanced degrees in Space Studies and Geography have provided a unique skill set as it relates to Remote Sensing. I'm well equipped to assist customers in resolving their intelligence and information requirements by refining their proposals to operate within the bounds of current satellite imaging capabilities and can advise my data science team regarding imagery exploitation toward AI/ML solutions.

There is tremendous opportunity for those with remote sensing competency/literacy, geospatial data fusion/visualization and data science leanings in the defense and intelligence communities. One of the most exciting aspects of what we are doing is that we have fully funded research endeavors that each have plans for operationalizing and integrating the capability. Our research and development create improvements and efficiencies toward advancing the field of computer vision and elevating our programs, algorithms, and understanding of computer vision model performance.

My CU Boulder undergrad degree paved the way for my wending career path, but moreover enlightened me to such a deep appreciation and comprehension of the complexities of this beautiful world.

Thanks so much to CU Boulder and CU Denver (Masters of Urban & Regional Planning, 2001) -- CU has been the educational rock upon which I've been able to stand, crafting a better person, and hopefully contributing something useful to the world!

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