Barbara (Babs) Buttenfield
Professor Emerita of Geography • GIS, Cartographic Generalization, Multi-Scale Databases • Ph.D. University of Washington, 1984
GIS
babs@colorado.edu
303-492-3618 GUGG 201D

Research Interests

I teach courses in Geographic Information Science, GIS Modeling, Cartography and Information Design. My research interests focus on generalization, understanding the impacts of scale and resolution on data and modeling, representing uncertainty, and designing visualization tools for environmental modeling. I am a Past President of the American Cartographic Association. In 2001, I was named GIS Educator of the Year by the University Consortium for Geographic Information Science.

Recent Courses Taught

  • Spring 2020  GEOG 4103/5103 GIS: Spatial Analytics
  • Fall 2019  GEOG 4203/5203 GIS: Spatial Modeling
  • Spring 2019  GEOG 4103/5103 GIS: Spatial Analytics
  • Fall 2018  GEOG 4203/5203 GIS: Spatial Modeling
  • Spring 2018  GEOG 4103/5103 GIS: Spatial Analytics
  • Spring 2018  GEOG4503/5503 GIS: Project Management