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Geography Newsletter - Spring 2021

Aerial view of mountain valley

Thank you for reading our departmental newsletter. 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. Please also see the Chair's Message for an additional way to get more involved with current students, through a new platform we are developing.

Besides your updates and participation, we always appreciate any 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. 

Department of Geography Spring 2021

Message from the Chair

Emily Yeh

Emily Yeh, Spring 2021

Greetings to the CU Boulder Geography community, near and far! I’m writing to you at the end of an exhausting academic year. This spring our students, staff, and faculty have navigated the ongoing COVID19 pandemic and its associated consequences of isolation, uncertainty, and financial stress. We have also faced a...

Alumni Articles

Shannon O'Lear

Shannon O’Lear, University of Kansas

After completing my BA with a double major in Geography and Russian in 1990 and my MA in Geography in 1992, both at CU Boulder, I headed off to the Ph.D. program in Geography at Syracuse University. There, I studied what was then an extraordinarily weird topic for the early...
Drone shot of dirt road with forest on one and clear cut tree on other side

Joel Correia, Assistant Professor, Center for Latin American Studies, University of Florida

Joel Correia graduated with a PhD from CU Geography in August 2017. It has been a bit of a whirlwind since then. After parking his rented U-Haul truck in the dirt parking lot of a Starbucks in Santa Fe during the post-defense move from Boulder to Tucson, Correia poached the...
Colorado map showing redistricting

Rebecca Theobald: Want to better understand Colorado’s redistricting process? Make your own map.

Rebecca Theobold graduated with a PhD from CU Boulder Geography in 2007 and an MA in 2003. Q&A: How political maps are drawn determines how communities are represented at the local, state and national levels. A geography instructor explains how to engage in the process. Rebecca Theobald, PhD, Geography, CU...
bent over trees in arctic forest

Brandon Lucas: Drunken Forests: Permafrost Thaw in the Arctic

Permafrost degradation is an issue of international concern with major consequences that reach far beyond the Arctic Circle. These consequences are already beginning to manifest themselves. The catastrophic Norilsk fuel spill in late May 2020 is just one of the many recent examples of how permafrost melt damages infrastructure while...

Updates

Michelle Stewart

Short alumni updates, Spring 2021

Michelle Stewart , Executive Director, Yampa Valley Sustainability Council Michelle O. Stewart , Ph.D. 2014, is currently the Executive Director (ED) of Yampa Valley Sustainability Council (YVSC) , based in Steamboat Springs, CO. YVSC is guided by the mission "to serve as a resource and catalyst for building a sustainable...
2 men and a woman holding ice creams cones, posing in a European town square.

Lynn Staeheli 1958-2020

Lynn Staeheli with Nel Caine and Marco Antonsich (CU geography PhD 2007) in Como, Italy 2006. Former CU geography faculty member, Lynn Staeheli , died at her home in Tucson, AZ on December 20, 2020. At the time of her death, she was Professor and Director of the School of...

Department News

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Faculty News Spring 2021

Waleed Abdalati testified to Congress for the House Select Committee on the Climate Crisis. Waleed Abdalati On April 15, 2021, Professor Abdalati testified in a hearing held by the U.S. House of Representatives Select Committee on the Climate Crisis. The hearing was titled “Making the Case for Climate Action: The...
Mykael Pineda

Student News Spring 2021

Mykael Pineda Awarded UROP Grant Undergraduate student Mykael Pineda was awarded an Undergraduate Research Opportunities Program (UROP) Individual Grant for her project, “Climate Sensitive Post-Fire Management.” She will be co-mentored by Holly Barnard and GEOG Alum Teresa Chapman from The Nature Conservancy. Mykael will be using this work as the...
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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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