Earth Sciences & Map Library News

The World of Printed Maps is a regular feature that showcases the physical maps collection in the Earth Sciences & Map Library.

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The Earth Sciences & Map Library will host a panel discussion where explorers, scientists and artists who’ve witnessed climate change in the Arctic will share their stories.

It’s the latest in a series of student-curated exhibitions hosted by the University Libraries this semester.

The exhibit invites viewers to contemplate the evolving human relationship with the ice on our planet.

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Join the University Libraries and celebrate GIS Day with a virtual mini-conference on November 13! Geographic Information Systems (GIS) is a scientific framework for gathering, analyzing and visualizing geographic data. Geospatial technology is crucial to making decisions about our infrastructure, natural resources and economic growth. It has also become an...

Sarah Jaffe, a PhD student in CU Boulder’s Environmental Studies program, developed a workflow for the libraries to transform the Earth Sciences & Map Library’s historical aerial photos into a massive collection of geographic information system (GIS) data for researchers.

The University Libraries are pleased to announce that CU Boulder undergraduate student Ansh Desai has won the 2020 Earth Sciences & Map Library Photo Contest! Desai’s photo Sky Pond was taken in late May 2019 during a sunrise hike to one of Rocky Mountain National Park’s best-kept secrets. ( Sky...

Buddy Collins, a graduating senior in the Department of Geography and this year’s Friends of the Libraries Fellow, has spent the last few months improving access and discovery to the Earth Sciences & Map Library’s Sanborn Fire Insurance Map Collection . His work creating web map indexes for this important...