Geography
- Recipients, chosen by faculty committee, ‘work tirelessly and most times in the dark’ for diversity and inclusion.
- The Thompson awards from the Center of the American West urge students to write about the West and show them the year that was for a $500 prize.
- New research unravels the mystery of how our cities evolved into their present form.
- geographer leads colleagues from National Snow and Ice Data Center and CU Denver in effort to leverage artificial intelligence for harmonizing large earth observation datasets and mapping sea ice.
- New sources ranging from satellites to government records to social media are providing a wealth of opportunities to learn more about wildfire behavior and how it threatens people and affects ecosystems.
- With the setting of the sun and the onset of polar darkness, the Arctic Ocean would normally be crusted with sea ice along the Siberian coast by now. But this year, the water is still open.I’ve watched the region’s transformations since the 1980s as
- War and forced displacement has returned with vengeance to Nagorno-Karabakh.Nagorno-Karabakh is engulfed in the flames of war. Half of its population has fled, while the remaining families cower in basements as artillery and drones destroy their
- Wildfires are a natural disturbance for these regions, but when combined with climate change and housing growth in the wildland-urban interface, they become larger and more destructive.
- alum, now employed by NREL, discusses the importance of his interdisciplinary background for his career.
- New grant supports interdisciplinary research on "the critical zone” and the future of Western waterThree faculty are principal investigators on a new five-year, $6.9 million National Science Foundation grant to study the “critical zone”—from Earth’s bedrock to tree canopy top—in the American West.