Newsletters

Table of Contents

• Message from the Department Chair, pg 3-4
• NSF award will support Karimzadeh and team in fusing heterogeneous large earth data for sea ice mapping, pg 5
• Mark Serreze: Arctic Specialization, pg 6
• Heide Bruckner: Building classroom-community connections in the time of COVID-19, pgs 7-8
• Barbara “Babs” Buttenfield: What a Long, Strange Trip It’s Been, pg 9-10
• Introducing Guofeng Cao, Assistant Professor of Geography, pg 11
• Introducing Dr. Rachel Isaacs, Instructor, pg 12-13 Department N ews, pg 14-17
• Alumni Updates, pg 18
• Donor Support, pgs 19-20

• Message from the Department Chair, pg 2
• ​Mara Goldman: Reaction to Coronavirus, pg 3
• Page Hartwell: An Undergraduate's Perspective on COVID-19, pg 4
• Satellite-based snowpack information to inform water resource management during the COVID-19 pandemic, pgs 5-7
• Professors Seeking COVID-19 Funding, pg 8
• Human Geography Dimensions of COVID-19 in China, pg 8
• New Faculty: Introducing A. Marie Ranjbar, pg 9
• Narrating Nature: book by Mara Goldman, pg 10
• Emily Yeh: Sabbatical Report: Pastoralists of the Upper Yangtze, pgs 11-12
• Alumnus Update: Brooke E. Marston, pg 13
• Department News, pg 14
• Donor Support, pgs 15-16

Table  of Contents

• Message from the Department Chair, pg 2
• Editors' Comments, pg 3
• Mark Serreze Named Distinguished Professor, pgs 4-5
• The Boulder Affordable Housing Research Initiative, pgs 6-7
• Introducing Morteza Karimzadeh, Assistant Professor, pgs 8-9
• Introducing Heide Bruckner, Instructor, pgs 9-10
• Emily Yeh Sabbatical Notes: Post-disaster trajectories in mountainous Chinese village, pgs 11-12
• Alumni Updates, pg 13
• Department News, pg 14
• Donor Support, pgs 15-16

Contents

• Bill Travis: Message from the Chair, pgs 2-3
• von Dreden Stacey Fellowship Winners, pgs 4-6
• Mark Serreze: Climate Change Becomes Persona (Non Grata), pgs 6-8
• Introducing Caitlin McShane, New Graduate Student, pgs 8-9
• Introducing Katherine Lininger, New Faculty Member, pg 10
• Seth Spielman’s “Double Life”, pg 11
• Mara Goldman: Examining Nature-Society Relations Across Boundaries, pgs 12-13
• A Career in Geography, Dr. Lionel D. Lyles, PhD, 1977, pgs 14-15
• Alumni Updates, pg 16
• Department News, pg 17
• Donor Support, pgs 18-19

Articles include: 

• Message from the chair
• John Pitlick: Guggenheim in the rearview mirror
• Stefan Leyk: Extracting Geospatial Data from Historical Maps
• Fernando Riosmena: Is Climate Change A Driver of Migration?
• Dylan Lanka: Solifluction Erosion
• Kai Kresek: Perception of Neighborhood Space
• Earth Lab Launches New Professional Certificate in Earth Data Analytics
• Department News

Inside this issue:

• Message from the Chair, pg 2
• Tom Veblen Named CU Distinguished Professor, pg 3
• Mark Serreze Named Professor of Distinction, pg 6
• Yaffa Truelove, New Geography Faculty Member, pg 6
• New Geography Instructors, Mike Dwyer and Sarah Kelly, pg 8
• Graduate Student IGNITE Talks, pg 11 Department News, pg 14
• Donor Support, pg 15 

• Message from the Department Chair: Emily Yeh provides an overview of recent news relating to the department.
• Project Fire: Human-started wildfires expand the fire niche across the United States.
• Featured Articles
  • Hamid Zoraghein from Tehran to Boulder.
  • Galen Murton, graduating PhD.
  • Jennifer Fluri’s new book.
• Spotlight on Faculty: Babs Buttenfield, Waleed Abdalati, Mara Goldman, Tim Oakes.
• Student News: Robert Andrus, Angela Cunningham, Zhaxi Duojie, Mehran Ghandehari, Eric Lovell, Kyle Rodman, Adam Mahood, Rupak Shrestha, Sierra Gladfelter, Meredith DeBoom, and Joel Correia.
• Alumni News: Ian Rowen, Sarah Hart, Yonten Nyima, and Terry V. McIntyre.

• Emily Yeh provides an overview of recent news and changes in the department
• Welcome New Faculty: Introducing Colleen Reid and her work
• Profiles of Scholarship Winners
• We were proud to award six fellowships to these undergraduate students:
• Jasper Schneider, Katie Weimer, Joshua Temes, Kristina Cowell, Nick Whittemore, and Brooke Long
• Faculty Research: Peter Blanken. Barbara Buttenfield.
• Faculty News: Tom Veblen, Seth Spielman
• Department News: Alumnus Risto Marttinen. Grad students: Mehran Ghandehari, Robbie Andrus, Alice Hill, Alana Wilson, Aaron Malone, and Eric Lovell

• Emily Yeh gives an overview of recent news and changes in the department
• Spotlight on Faculty
  • Peter Blanken on the UN Climate Change Conference
  • Fernando Riosmena discusses Negative Acculturation
  • Mara Goldman provides an update on her various projects
• Featured Student Articles
  • Abe Solberg: Visual Media's Influence on Land Policy
  • Andrea Baeza Breinbauer: Movement and Space
• Alumni News: Richard Heede, Ronald Cossman, Janet Go, Yu Luo Rioux, Julie Crea Dunba, David H. Hickox, Dana Ziemba
• Faculty News: Mark Serreze, Stefan Leyk, John O’Loughlin, Barbara Buttenfield, Emily Yeh, Noah Moloch, Peter Blanken

• Emily Yeh gives an overview of recent news and changes in the department
• Welcome New Faculty: Introducing Carson Farmer and his work
• Profiles of Scholarship Winners: This year, we were proud to award six fellowships to these undergraduate students
• Faculty News
  • Waleed Abdalati speaks at the White House; co-chairs national committee
  • Jennifer Fluri and the Boulder Affordable Housing Research Initiative
  • Jennifer Balch leads Earth Lab research project; gets fire experiment published in Bioscience journal
  • John O’Loughlin wins gold medal
  • Suzanne Anderson and the Colorado flood
• Featured Student Articles: Jennifer Bloom, Caitlin McShane, Kate Gregory, Meagan Todd
• Alumni News
• Topics of interest

• Message from Geography Chair, Emily Yeh
• Featured Faculty Articles
  • Joe Bryan
  • Suzanne Anderson
• Featured Student Articles: Jessica Barnes, Chris Jochem
• Featured Alumnus: Donna Rubinoff
• Faculty/Student News: Succinctly salient summaries of  bits and bytes, this and that, and who, what, where. 

• Message from Geography Chair, Emily Yeh
• New Faculty:
  • Jennifer Balch, assistant professor.
  • Jennifer Fluri, associate professor
• Featured Students: Jessica Bobeck, Rory Cowie, Chris Anderson-Tarver, Madison Musgrave
• Featured Faculty: Jennifer Fluri, Jennifer Balch, Mark Williams, Tim Oakes
• Featured Alumni: Succinctly salient summaries of  bits and bytes, this and that, and who, what, where.
• Recent publications, grants, awards, & graduate placements: Check out the impressive list of selected job placements, grants, recognitions, and publications.  This list includes more recent achievements.