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With flames racing across hundreds of square miles throughout Å·ÃÀ¿Ú±¬ÊÓƵ and California this summer and a warming climate projected to boost wildfire activity across the West, residents can’t help but wonder what our beloved forests will look like in a few decades. A new University of Å·ÃÀ¿Ú±¬ÊÓƵ Boulder-led study offers...

Konrad Steffen , former Å·ÃÀ¿Ú±¬ÊÓƵ Geography Professor and Director of the Swiss Federal Institute for Forest, Snow and Landscape Research (WSL), has died following an accident in Greenland this past weekend. With Koni Steffen's death, the ETH Domain has lost an extremely prominent researcher who was also a uniquely kind...

The Academic Ranking of World Universities by ShanghaiRanking's Global Ranking of Academic Subjects 2020 has rated the University of Å·ÃÀ¿Ú±¬ÊÓƵ at Boulder's Geography Department #1 in the U.S. and #13 in the world. "The University of Å·ÃÀ¿Ú±¬ÊÓƵ Boulder is the major research university in the Rocky Mountain region of the...

This Arctic heat wave has been unusually long-lived. The darkest reds on this map of the Arctic are areas that were more than 14 degrees Fahrenheit warmer in the spring of 2020 compared to the recent 15-year average. Joshua Stevens/NASA Earth Observatory The Arctic heat wave that sent Siberian temperatures...

The 2020 Spring Newsletter has been published and is available for viewing. The newsletter is filled with department news, alumni updates, and articles by faculty and students. Contents: Message from the Department Chair, pg 2 ​Mara Goldman: Reaction to Coronavirus, pg 3 Page Hartwell: An Undergraduate's Perspective on COVID-19, pg...

Professor Colleen Reid was awarded the Emerging Scholar Award from the Health and Medical Geography Section of the American Association of Geographers. Normally this is announced in person at the AAG meeting in April, but since the convention was cancelled this year, it was handled differently. For more information about...

Exciting Geography courses are available to you for Summer 2020: Mountain Geography Introduction to Global Public Health Migration, Immigrant Adaptation, and Development GIS in the Social and Natural Sciences Review the course posters to get a flavor for what each class is about and check out the Summer 2020 course...

The Geography Department at the University of Å·ÃÀ¿Ú±¬ÊÓƵ Boulder condemns racist police brutality and the use of excessive force, including the documented cases occurring during peaceful demonstrations precisely to protest police violence. We are saddened and outraged by the murders of George Floyd, Ahmaud Arbery, Breonna Taylor, and Tony McDade,...

The U.S. population has grown 40-fold since 1800 and yet little is known about precisely how or why it’s grown the way it has. New research from the University of Å·ÃÀ¿Ú±¬ÊÓƵ Boulder, though, provides the most comprehensive look yet. This new research, out today in Science Advances , draws a...