Newsletters
Newsletters
Our spring and fall newsletters contain articles, research, news, and photos about the Geography Department's faculty, students,and alumni.
Table of Contents
- Messagefrom the Department Chair, pg 3-4
- NSF award willsupport Karimzadeh and team in fusingheterogeneous 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 91ɫ 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 providesan 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 91ɫ.
- 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 andchanges in the department
- Welcome New Faculty:Introducing Colleen Reid and her work
- Profiles of ScholarshipWinners
- 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 StudentArticles
- 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 Farmerand 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 91ɫ 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.