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Read the CU Geography Spring 2016 Newsletter featuring updates from department faculty, students, and alumni. The Faculty Spotlight is on Peter Blanken, Fernando Riosmena, and Mara Goldman. Student articles by Abe Solberg and Andrea Baeza Breinbauer and plenty of alumni news. See more at Spring 2016 Newsletter >

Mark Serreze interviewed for article in The Washington Post Unusual Arctic heat has been accompanied by a new record low level for Arctic sea ice extent during the normally ice-packed month of January, according to the National Snow and Ice Data Center — over 400,000 square miles below average for...

When Peter Blanken flew to Paris for the 2015 United Nations Climate Change Conference in December, he had somewhat low expectations. “Going into it, I felt pessimistic,” says Blanken, associate professor of geography at the University of Colorado Boulder, who was one of 10 official observers selected by the Association...

"Tibetan Environmentalists in China: The King of Dzi", co-translated by PhD Candidate Ian Rowen and Professor and Chair Emily Yeh , has been published by Lexington Books (Rowman and Littlefield). Originally written in Chinese journalist Liu Jianqiang, "this book weaves together the life stories of five extraordinary contemporary Tibetans involved...

Emily Yeh was quoted in an article in The Economist magazine titled "The Emperor's Mighty Brother" about the caterpillar fungus and how demand for an aphrodisiac has brought unprecedented wealth to rural Tibet—and trouble in its wake. See more at The Economist >

In 1952, Albert W. Smith joined the faculty at the University of Colorado Boulder and became the first chair of the Department of Geography—after geography and geology split into two departments. He served as a professor until his retirement in 1983. Professor Emeritus Smith touched the lives of many students...

Waleed Abdalati will co-chair a prestigious national committee charged with developing U.S. priorities for observing Earth’s atmosphere, oceans and land surfaces by satellite. Read CU News Center article.

KUSA, Channel 9 News Interview with Mark Related Press: Three Million Gallons of Toxic Wastewater Has Turned This River the Color of American Cheese | VICE News Animas River spill: How Colorado's 'Gold Medal' waters turned mustard | The Christian Science Monitor What The Colorado Waste Water Spill Tells Us...

Emily T. Yeh's Taming Tibet: Landscape Transformation and the Gift of Chinese Development (Cornell University Press, 2013) is an award-winning critical analysis of the production and transformation of the Tibetan landscape since 1950, construing development as a "state project that is presented as a gift to the Tibetan people" especially...

CPR interview regarding the recent groundwater sampling campaign that was incorporated into the summer 2015 Hydrologic Field Methods course taught by Geography PhD student Alice Hill. After training on the protocol and methods, the students performed the well water sampling for this baseline study. KVFN Regional Newscast June 10, 2015 minutes 3:08-5:36