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“Covid brought a greater awareness to third places, to how vital they are for everyday health and well-being,” said Jessica Finlay, an assistant professor of geography at the University of Colorado Boulder. ”They can be a social glue that connects us, and it’s really important for not just individual health but collective health.”
“This is by far the most horrific flood I have ever seen,” said Alton Byers, a faculty research scientist and an associate of the Institute of Arctic and Alpine Research (INSTAAR) at CU Boulder.
On August 18, 2026 Professor Emeritus Andrei Rogers passed away at the age of 88. Andrei taught at the University of Colorado Boulder Geography Department from 1983 to 2007, he was the Director of the Population Program at the
“Drought stress for mountain forests around the Western U.S. is heavily dictated by the snow that accumulates each winter and then melts through the spring and summer,” Molotch said. “There is a direct connection there in terms of the water availability and drought stress that can provide one of the important ingredients for increases in wildfire intensity and frequency.”
"Communities that haven't historically thought a lot about about heat now really have to ... When it starts to become a chronic issue for a community, then you really have to figure out how to live with this." – Sara Meerow, associate professor of geography at the University of Colorado Boulder
Congratulations to Yuying Ren and Alek Berg for winning the 2026 Wildland-Urban Interface (WUI) Summit Student Pitch Competition! WUI fires present a complex set of challenges that require an
Congratulations to Geography Professor Peter Blanken for being elected as a 2027 American Meteorological Society (AMS) Fellow. AMS fellows are "elected by the AMS Council based on outstanding contributions to the atmospheric or
Out of 31 days in July, Denver temperatures hit 90°F or higher during 28 of them. So far this summer, the city has seen six days with temperatures above 100°F and one of the hottest Julys in recorded history.
Wildfire smoke from fires burning in Canada and northern Minnesota has been pouring across the Great Lakes and northeastern U.S. states, turning skies an eerie shade of orange...
Dr. Jennifer Balch, Director of the Environmental Data Science Innovation & Impact Lab (ESIIL), CIRES Fellow, and Professor of Geography at the University of Colorado Boulder, is leading an NSF-funded FIRE-NET project to create the Fast Fire