Max Counter and Shea Frydenlund have been selected as the 2013-2014 recipients of the department's Adam Kolff Memorial Research Fellowship. The 2013-2014 fellowship provides $2000 toward research expenses for MA students.
The Africa Specialty Group notified Meredith that she is the winner of the 2014 Student Paper Competition. Her award will be presented at the upcoming AAG meeting in Tampa, Florida.
John O'Loughin co-authored this Washington Post article with Gerald Toal: How people in South Ossetia, Abkhazia and Transnistria feel about annexation by Russia .
Beverly Sears Graduate Student Research Grants for 2014-2015 have been awarded to Meredith DeBoom, Aaron Malone and Galen Murton. These grants are competitive awards sponsored by the Graduate School that support the research, scholarship and creative work of graduate students from all departments. All funding is provided by private donations.
Peter Blanken and Christopher Spence of Environment Canada say information they are gathering about the Great Lakes this winter bodes well for water levels this summer, and a better understanding of water loss on the lakes could yield helpful forecasting for marinas and the shipping industry.
A New York Times article about the 2014 Winter Olympics in Sochi Russia and its proximity to a war zone, includes a map showing the spread of rebel attacks in the North Caucasus. The dynamic map was created using data collected by John O'Loughlin and his former grad students Ted...
This award is presented by the Arts & Sciences Support of Education Through Technology (ASSETT). In December 2013, ASSETT asked students across the College of A&S to nominate an instructor who uses technology in outstanding ways to support student learning. Stefan's Introduction to Geographic Information Science class (GEOG4103/5103) was highlighted...
In a paper recently published in Journal of Geophysical Research: Earth Surface , Erich and John correlated landscape controls on sediment supply through direct measurements of water and sediment fluxes in over 80 drainage basins ranging in area from 1.4 to 35,000 km2 in the northern Rocky Mountains. These data show...
Babs Buttenfield was an academic plenary speaker for 12th Annual GIS Day Symposium at the University of Kansas in Lawrence. The topical theme for the symposium was Water Issues and GIScience. Babs spoke about Designing a Multi-Scale national Hydrographic Database, summarizing recent work on her five year USGS-funded research project...
The Office of International Education (OIE) is pleased to honor Å·ÃÀ¿Ú±¬ÊÓƵ's Global Citizens for their outstanding contributions to international understanding. Among the 2013 winners is geography major Jeffrey Caston who has been deeply involved in understanding environmental issues around the globe. See more at Office of International Education (link no...
Climate change from greenhouse gas emissions could make extreme El Niño events more frequent, according to new research co-led by Å·ÃÀ¿Ú±¬ÊÓƵ Boulder.
After hosting the Right Here, Right Now Global Climate Summit on campus in 2022, Å·ÃÀ¿Ú±¬ÊÓƵ Boulder remains a committed educational partner and will be a co-host of the 2025 event in Oxford, England.
Å·ÃÀ¿Ú±¬ÊÓƵ Boulder researcher and team have discovered why lithium-ion batteries, which power most electronic devices, lose capacity over time. The findings could enable the development of electric vehicles that go far longer without needing a charge.
New research reveals that current krill populations in the Southern Ocean may be insufficient to support the full recovery of whale species if krill harvesting continues at current rates.
Predators not native to Madagascar, such as feral dogs and cats, may pose a serious threat to lemur species—many of which are already facing extinction on this African island.
Å·ÃÀ¿Ú±¬ÊÓƵ researchers spent 400 hours under water observing these colorful fish in the Caribbean. They learned they’re smarter, and more neighborly, than previously thought.
An atmospheric river brought warm, humid air to the coldest and driest corner of the planet in 2022, pushing temperatures 70 degrees above average. A new Å·ÃÀ¿Ú±¬ÊÓƵ Boulder-led study reveals what happened to Antarctica’s smallest animals.
The new international annual review of the world’s climate showed that 2023 was the warmest year on record. A Å·ÃÀ¿Ú±¬ÊÓƵ Boulder scientist weighs in on how the rising global greenhouse gas concentration is driving climate change and what we can do.