Honors & Awards

Connor Sheehan is the recipient of a pilot project grant from the Institute of Behavioral Science to study the relationship between migration and informality in Latin America. $8100.

John Knowles Receives Gary Gaile Memorial Research Fellowship from the Department of Geography.

The Colwell Fellowship will support his research to develop new algorithms for radiometric normalization of night-time imagery from the Defense Meteorological Satellite Program (DMSP). No record was made of on-board DMSP calibration adjustments over many years. This means that to detect changes over time, it is necessary to radiometrically normalize...

Professor Tom Veblen is PI and recent CU graduates Andres Holz and Juan Paritsis are Postdoctoral Research Associates on a new NSF award entitled “Wildfire Regime Shifts in Southern South America from Tree-Ring Reconstructed Fire History Networks: Climatic Controls, Land Use, and Ecological Feedbacks.” The three-year award for $300,000 will...

Meredith Gartner has been awarded a Doctoral Dissertation Improvement Award for 2010-2011 from the Geography and Spatial Sciences Program of the National Science Foundation. Meredith is conducting research in the ponderosa pine zone of the Colorado Front Range on how landscape variability and fire history affect the spread and severity...

Travis Klingberg has been awarded a US Department of Education Fulbright-Hays Doctoral Dissertation Research Abroad (DDRA) Fellowship for 2010-2011. Klingberg studies the relationship between Chinese independent tourists traveling domestically within the People’s Republic of China and the geographic narratives of place and nation that contribute to China's national and modernizing...

Jenn Dinaburg has been awarded a US Department of Education Fulbright-Hays Doctoral Dissertation Research Abroad (DDRA) Fellowship for 2010-2011. Dinaburg studies Tibetan medicinal plant management in China. She investigates how the transition from socialist governance to increasing market logics in medicinal plant management is changing the social relations of pharmaceutical...

Ted Holland won the Russian, Central Eurasian and East European Specialty Group's Dissertation Enhancement Award at the annual AAG meetings in Washington DC. Ted's dissertation is titled "Geography and Identity in Russia's Buddhist Republics." See Association of American Geographers for more information.

Natalie Koch and Grant Garstka swept the Russian, Central Eurasian and East European Specialty Group's Best Student Paper Award at the annual AAG meetings in Washington, DC. First prize went to Natalie's paper, titled "The Monumental and the Miniature: Imagining 'Modernity' in Astana," and Second went to Grant's paper, titled...

Adam Williams has been awarded Foreign Language and Area Studies Fellowships from the Center for Asian Studies for Summer 2010 and for the 2010-11 academic year. He will be studying Chinese language in preparation for his PhD fieldwork on the geography of waste in Shanghai. See Center for Asian Studies...