Babs Buttenfield

CU Boulder's team (Ted Holland, Alana Wilson, Ian Rowen, Sam Smith, Mark Stover, and Preston Cumming) WON the Regional Geography Bowl at this years Great Plains Rocky Mountain Regional AAG meeting on Friday. There were six teams present, including perennial favorite Kansas State. CU Geography won by a whopping 59...

Chris was awarded a $750 scholarship from the Rocky Mountain Geospatial Information and Technology Association. The academic scholarship is designed for students exhibiting academic excellence in the geospatial technologies fields. See GITA Website for more information.

A study by Andres Holz and Tom Veblen indicates a major climate oscillation in the Southern Hemisphere that is expected to intensify in the coming decades will likely cause increased wildfire activity in much of the southern half of South America. See more at CU-Boulder News Center >

John was awarded a National Science Foundation Doctoral Dissertation Research Improvement grant.

The National Science Foundation has awarded the University of Colorado Boulder a six-year, $5.9 million grant to continue intensive studies of long-term ecological changes in Colorado's high mountains, both natural and human-caused, over decades and centuries. See Daily Camera article > See Niwot Ridge Long-Term Ecological Research for more information.

Naomi Arcand Receives Mable Duncan Memorial Scholarship

Monica T. Rother receives a Colorado Mountain Club Foundation Fellowship

Preston received the National Science Foundation (NSF) Doctoral Dissertation Research Improvement Award through the Geography and Spatial Sciences Program for his research entitled "Does Change in Fine-Scale Soil Properties After Fire Stimulate Exotic Species Colonization?"

Andrew will present at the Sawyer Seminar on Human Rights, part of the Human Rights Initiative at the University of Wisconsin - Madison on Friday, May 6, 2011. The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation awarded the Human Rights Initiative a major grant to conduct a Sawyer Seminar on the theme of...

Erich Mueller and Andrew Linke have been selected as this year's recipients of the Department's Gilbert White Fellowship. The fellowship provides dissertation writing support for a semester.