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Exhibition digs into complex social issues of fracking

Oct. 28, 2020

Denise Fernandes, Ph.D. student in Environmental Studies, and photographer Shelby McAuliffe collaborated on a project researching the cultural politics of oil and gas in Boulder and Weld counties.

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LISA - Statistical Collaboration help for Research

Oct. 12, 2020

Get support for statistics and data science in your research from LISA; The Laboratory for Interdisciplinary Statistical Analysis (LISA) is a statistics and data science collaboration laboratory at CU Boulder. LISA’s goal is to increase the quantity and quality of statistics and data science applied to advance high-impact research. LISA...

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CU community members honored for multi-faceted leadership

Sept. 23, 2020

Three University of Colorado community members have been named recipients of the 2020 Thomas Jefferson Award, among the highest honors bestowed at the state’s largest institution of higher education.

Together with colleagues from the Federal University of Acre, lead author Peter Newton talks with Sr. Dimas in his agroforest on the edge of the Amazonian forest in the state of Acre, Brazil.
ENVS professor leads study of the spatial relationships between people and forests, globally

Sept. 17, 2020

A study led by CU Boulder Assistant Professor, Peter Newton, is the first to tally ‘forest proximate’ humans on earth; numbers, refined terminology may improve the focus of conservation and development.

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New grant supports interdisciplinary research on ‘the critical zone’ and the future of Western water

Sept. 2, 2020

Congratulations to Assistant Professor, Eve Hinckley, and collaborators, Holly Barnard and Katherine Lininger, on their recent NSF grant to support interdisciplinary research on ‘the critical zone’ — from Earth’s bedrock to tree canopy top — in the American West.

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ENVS Professor, Roger Pielke Jr., seeks to find out "How has science shaped COVID-19 policy? " with new NSF RAPID grant

Sept. 1, 2020

Roger Pielke and an international team of investigators will spend the next year scouring public documents, interviewing journalists and political insiders and collecting data to paint a picture of how at least seven countries utilized scientific advice to address the pandemic.

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Agriculture replaces fossil fuels as largest human source of sulfur in the environment

Aug. 10, 2020

Congratulations to Eve-Lyn Hinckley for her new paper out today in Nature Geoscience which identifies fertilizer and pesticide applications to croplands as the largest source of sulfur in the environment—up to 10 times higher than the peak sulfur load seen in the second half of the 20th century, during the days of acid rain.

Sebastian Duenas Ocampo passed his dissertation prospectus defense

Aug. 10, 2020

Congratulations to Sebastian for passing his dissertation defense!

ENVS alum, Ashley Dancer, wins best paper award

July 22, 2020

Congratulations to Ashley Dancer who was one of the selected winners of the International Award for Excellence for Food Studies: An Interdisciplinary Journal for her Masters thesis article, "Perceived Opportunities For, And Barriers To, The Development Of Local Food Systems".

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