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Geography Newsletter - Geography Newsletter - Fall 2022

Mountains with ski lift

Thank you for reading our departmental newsletter. We publish newsletters at the end of the Fall and Spring semesters. If you have any updates, please let us know using our alumni update form or send an email with your information to the department. We would love to hear from you about how your career has progressed since attending CU. 

In addition to your updates and participation, we always appreciate donations to help us keep our support of scholarships for undergraduate and graduate students, providing them with much-needed financial awards to continue or finish their studies, or allowing them valuable research opportunities. Please see Donor Support for more details on each of our programs, which would not be possible without your continued support!

If your contact information has changed, please update your information via the alumni site. We want to continue to include you in our newsletter emails and any department invitations such as the Alumni and Friends Celebration to be held in March 2023. Since our main form of communication with you is email, we ask you to update your information whenever your email address changes. If you previously unsubscribed from CU emails and wish to re-subscribe, please send your request to records@cufund.org.

CU Geography Alumni and Friends Celebration

The annual meeting of the American Association of Geographers will be held in Denver from March 23-27, 2023. For geographers coming to town for this first in-person meeting in four years and for others who already live in Colorado or elsewhere nearby, we are holding a reception on Saturday March 25, 2023! Whether you’re an alumnus from a year ago or 50, or another friend of the department or current student, we invite you to visit the Guggenheim building from 6-9:30pm for a reception. In addition, we will have lightning talks and research posters by current students, photographs from the field, present awards, and other surprise fun activities! Please save the date and RSVP here.

Faculty Articles

Jennifer Fluri

Message from the Chair Fall 2022

The fall began with an excitement and energy reminiscent of semesters prior to the COVID-19 pandemic. The Department of Geography welcomed two new faculty members, Assistant Professor Melisa Diaz and Associate Professor Jill Harrison . Dr. Diaz’s research interests include Geochemistry and Biochemistry of the cryosphere and urban environments. She...
Emily Yeh

COP27: Power and (in)justice in global climate governance

Geography PhD student Emma Loizeaux and professor Emily Yeh (photo R.) both attended the UNFCCC COP27 in Sharm El Sheikh, Egypt in November 2022 as part of a collaborative event ethnography project on “Power and (in)justice in global climate governance.” Emma was there during Week 1 and Emily during Week...
Climate protesters

Jill Harrison: Research Overview

Jill Harrison ’s research helps identify the cultural relations and political economic processes that disproportionately situate members of racially marginalized, Indigenous, and working-class communities in dangerous spaces and precarious conditions that contribute to inequalities in life opportunity, illness, and death. She also identifies ways the state, social movements, and other...
Arctic ice

Cryosphere 2022 International Symposium

Mark Serreze attended the "Cryosphere 2022 International Symposium in Ice, Snow and Water in a Warming World", and gave a keynote talk on "The Future of Arctic Sea Ice". The symposium, held in Reykjavik Iceland from August 16-22, was attended by hundreds of cryospheric scientists and students from around the...
Snowpack map

Taking Stock of Mountain Snowpack and the Western Drought

Noah Molotch , associate professor of Geography, and INSTAAR hydrologist with a joint appointment at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory, and CU-Boulder colleague Leanne Lestak have been using 20 years of satellite data of snow-covered area, along with the SNOTEL data, to generate close to real-time estimates of snow water equivalent...
World Map

Cartography - The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly

Sarah Kelly , GISP, Assistant Teaching Professor in Geography gave a talk at GIS in the Rockies at the University of Denver, in September 2022 to a packed room of GIS professionals. GIS in the Rockies is a geospatial information and technology conference that offers opportunities for industry professionals to...
Chinese bridge

Tim Oakes: Leading Multiple Workshops, Research Grants and Public Outreach

Tim Oakes , Professor of Geography, is interim faculty director at the Center for Asian Studies which was awarded a $2.2 million grant from the US Department of Education’s Title VI program. He told 9News : “One of the missions of CAS is to make Asia as accessible as possible...
CU campus

A “Revolution” in Environmental Data Science

New national center at CU Boulder will tackle pressing socio-environmental challenges with big data analytics, more The National Science Foundation (NSF) has funded a major new data science and diversity effort at Cooperative Institute for Research in Environmental Sciences (CIRES), a research institute at CU Boulder—the Environmental Data Science Innovation...

Student Updates

Tents in mountains

Phurwa Gurung Awarded Social Science Research Council's International Dissertation Research Fellowship

A high-altitude seasonal encampment for caterpillar fungus harvest in Dolpo, Nepal. Phurwa D Gurung , PhD Candidate in Geography, received the competitive Social Science Research Council's International Dissertation Research Fellowship (SSRC IDRF) funded by the Mellon Foundation. Phurwa was selected from a total of 870 applicants from graduate students at...
Mike Tran

Mike Tran: Participating in Multiple Research Projects

My name is Mike Tran and I am currently a senior double-majoring in Geography (General Track) and International Affairs. This semester I am studying Arabic abroad under the Boren Scholarship. I plan on returning in the spring to finish my last semester at CU. I started my time at CU...
Grad student cohort

Welcome to Our Fall 2022 Graduate Students

Please join us in welcoming our incoming graduates for Fall 2022! Back row: Millie Spenser, Priscilla (Pris) Corbett, Drolma Gadou, Briana Prado, Emma Barrett, Denise Mondragon, Mia Murray, Taylor O’Brien, Nathan Korinek, Ethan Carr; Middle row: Alaric Kothapally, Michele Lissoni, Aja Procita, Nic Tarasewicz, Patrick (Pat) Saylor, Isaiah Lyons-Galante; Front...
Group of 7 people posing in Africa

Sarah Posner & John O'Loughlin: East Africa Climate Change

In 2008 and 2009, a severe drought swept through much of Kenya and Tanzania. Nomadic herders, or pastoralists, such as the Maasai people in Tanzania, pushed south in search of greener expanses, bringing tens of thousands of cattle with them. What happened next was largely unprecedented: Locals from a region...

Alumni Updates

Drown on the ground

Alex Posen: ESRI Solutions Engineer in Imagery and Remote Sensing

Alex Posen During my undergrad in the geography department, I found myself particularly drawn to the GIS and remote sensing classes. After I graduated in the spring of 2021 with a BA in Geography and the GIS concentration, I was eager to gain industry experience and continue to build upon...
Fitz Roy Massif in Patagonia, Argentina

Tim Watts: Working for Maxar

A high off-nadir image of the Fitz Roy Massif in Patagonia, Argentina. Taken by World View 3. My Name is Tim Watts, I graduated in December of 2021 with a B.A. in Geography. I am half Coriscan (a French Island) and half American, from Colorado. My time at CU challenged...
Book cover

Julie Crea Dunbar, BA 1993

After graduating from CU in 1993, I went on to earn my MFA in writing from Naropa University. I've worked for ABC-CLIO, a social studies publisher, since 2004. As a media editor for the company's Geography website, I acquired all sorts of fun things from images to maps to video...
Lucy on a mountainside

Lucy Haggard, BA 2020

After graduating in May 2020 (class of COVID-19, woohoo! Just kidding...) it took me a while to figure out work. But two years later, I’m now in the second job where I’ve used my Geography skills in some form. For almost a year I worked at a local news outlet,...
Remote Sensing instruments

Nick Lewis, MA 2018

Remote Sensing instruments and maps After completing my MA in Geography with Mark Serreze, I went on to teach Physical Geography and ultimately Remote Sensing & Advanced Remote Sensing at the United States Military Academy at West Point from 2018-2021. Since my retirement from the Army in 2021, my family...
Town of Lyons, CO

David Kimmett, MA 1994

I've worked as a geography teacher in Denver Public Schools, a GIS Analyst with Fremont County CO, a development planner with a solar engineering & design firm in Boulder, and now am currently a Planner II with the Town of Lyons, CO. Lotsa geography afoot, certainly! My CU Boulder undergrad...
A hand holding the GEOG logo with the words "Our future is in your hands" and "Charitable Giving"

Donor Support

Thank You! The Department of Geography is grateful to its alumni and friends for their financial support over the years. Our donors have had a big impact, making a difference not only to the Department as a whole, but to the lives of many individual students. As we strive for...

 
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