Kolff Fellowships Awarded to 2 Geography Grad Students

April 1, 2014

Max Counter and Shea Frydenlund have been selected as the 2013-2014 recipients of the department's Adam Kolff Memorial Research Fellowship. The 2013-2014 fellowship provides $2000 toward research expenses for MA students.

Meredith DeBoom wins ASG Student Paper Competition

April 1, 2014

The Africa Specialty Group notified Meredith that she is the winner of the 2014 Student Paper Competition. Her award will be presented at the upcoming AAG meeting in Tampa, Florida.

John O’Loughlin co-authors Washington Post article

March 20, 2014

John O'Loughin co-authored this Washington Post article with Gerald Toal: How people in South Ossetia, Abkhazia and Transnistria feel about annexation by Russia .

Beverly Sears Grants awarded to 3 Geography Students

March 12, 2014

Beverly Sears Graduate Student Research Grants for 2014-2015 have been awarded to Meredith DeBoom, Aaron Malone and Galen Murton. These grants are competitive awards sponsored by the Graduate School that support the research, scholarship and creative work of graduate students from all departments. All funding is provided by private donations.

Lighthouse Study Tracks Evaporation

March 6, 2014

Peter Blanken and Christopher Spence of Environment Canada say information they are gathering about the Great Lakes this winter bodes well for water levels this summer, and a better understanding of water loss on the lakes could yield helpful forecasting for marinas and the shipping industry.

Research by John O’Loughlin on the North Caucasus featured in New York Times article

Feb. 5, 2014

A New York Times article about the 2014 Winter Olympics in Sochi Russia and its proximity to a war zone, includes a map showing the spread of rebel attacks in the North Caucasus. The dynamic map was created using data collected by John O'Loughlin and his former grad students Ted...

Stefan Leyk Receives Award of Excellence as an Outstanding Teacher for Technology in Teaching

Jan. 16, 2014

This award is presented by the Arts & Sciences Support of Education Through Technology (ASSETT). In December 2013, ASSETT asked students across the College of A&S to nominate an instructor who uses technology in outstanding ways to support student learning. Stefan's Introduction to Geographic Information Science class (GEOG4103/5103) was highlighted...

River research by Erich Mueller and John Pitlick featured in EOS, 3 December 2013

Dec. 3, 2013

In a paper recently published in Journal of Geophysical Research: Earth Surface , Erich and John correlated landscape controls on sediment supply through direct measurements of water and sediment fluxes in over 80 drainage basins ranging in area from 1.4 to 35,000 km2 in the northern Rocky Mountains. These data show...

Babs Buttenfield speaks at GIS Day Symposium

Nov. 20, 2013

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 Hydrographic Database, summarizing recent work on her five year USGS-funded research project...

Jeffrey Caston Receives Study Abroad Student of the Year Award

Nov. 14, 2013

The Office of International Education (OIE) is pleased to honor CU's Global Citizens for their outstanding contributions to international understanding. Among the 2013 winners is geography major Jeffrey Caston who has been deeply involved in understanding environmental issues around the globe. See more at Office of International Education (link no...

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