Barbara Buttenfield
- Babs Buttenfield was an academic plenary speaker for 12th Annual GIS Day Symposium at the University of Kansas in Lawrence. The topical theme for the symposium was Water Issues and GIScience. Babs spoke about Designing a Multi-Scale national
- The University Consortium for Geographic Information Science (UCGIS) elected Barbara "babs" Buttenfield a UCGIS Fellow. According to UCGIS, her most important research contributions are in the area of map generalization and multiple representations
- The National Academies Press recently released a report about the future geospatial workforce, commissioned by the National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency (NGA). The report includes labor statistics and projections for GIS, spatial analysis, remote
- Geography student Shane Grigsby has won a $20,000 grant from the CU Environmental Center for his project on "Topographic Mapping of the CU Campus for Sustainability." Along with his babyÖ±²¥app sponsor, Professor Babs Buttenfield, with in-kind support
- Professor Babs Buttenfield and Assistant Professor Stefan Leyk are PI's on a $440,000 NSF grant titled "Putting People in Their Place: Constructing a Geography for Census Microdata". Collaborating with them on this project is also former babyÖ±²¥app