Faculty News and Updates
Message from the Chair Spring 2023
This semester we welcomed two new faculty to the Department of Geography, Taneesha Mohan as a Teaching Assistant Professor, and Keith Musselman as an Assistant Professor. Our students and faculty also received various grants, awards, and accolades. PhD student, Tsering Lhamo , received a Fulbright Fellowship and the Summer Foreign...
Assistant Professor Katherine Lininger receives NSF CAREER award to investigate how humans have modified carbon storage in floodplains
Assistant Professor Katherine Lininger has received an鈥疦SF Career Award for her project titled, "Rivers of Carbon: assessing how humans have altered floodplain organic carbon stocks across the contiguous United States.鈥濃�疶he Faculty Early Career Development (CAREER) Program is a Foundation-wide activity that offers the National Science Foundation's most prestigious awards in...
Abdalati Testifies in the U.S. Senate
Back in December, CIRES Director and Geography professor Waleed Abdalati testified before the鈥疭ubcommittee on Space and Science鈥痠n a hearing titled 鈥淟andsat at 50 & the Future of U.S. Satellite-based Earth Observation.鈥� The subcommittee hearing, convened by Sen. John Hickenlooper (D-CO), highlighted critical Earth observation satellite data, the rise of commercial...
Emily Yeh: Campus Sustainability Award and Phi Beta Kappa Society Visiting Scholar
Emily Yeh Wins Campus Sustainability Awards and 鈥淕reen Faculty鈥� Title The University of Colorado recognizes outstanding efforts toward continuing the leadership and legacy of sustainability at 彩民宝典. Since 1997 the Annual Campus Sustainability Awards have recognized individuals, departments, and offices that have made a significant contribution to reducing the...
Keith Musselman Joins the Department of Geography as Assistant Professor
Dr. Keith Musselman grew up on the U.S. East Coast where his excitement for the science of climate, snow, and water grew from his love for skiing, snowboarding, and surfing. As an Assistant Professor in Geography and fellow at INSTAAR, he studies how mountain snowpack supports sustainable ecosystems and water...
Rafael Pires de Lima on Mapping Arctic Sea Ice and a New NASA Grant
Colorado is home to several magnificent outdoor sites. This picture was taken in March 2023 by the frozen Sprague Lake in the Rocky Mountains National Park. Hi, I'm Rafael. I鈥檓 from Brazil and my background is in geophysics, specifically in geological mapping and exploration. Since joining Morteza Karimzadeh鈥檚 team as...
Student Updates
Field work in north central Kenya
A camel train passing along the main street in Isiolo town in July 2022 on the way to non-traditional grazing. In July 2022, John O鈥橪oughlin (Professor) and Sarah Posner (graduate student) with Terry McCabe (Institute of Behavioral Science) conducted field work in Isiolo, north-central Kenya as part of an extensive...
Obituary: Tyler Roberts, PhD 2014, CU Geography
We, at CU Geography, are terribly saddened by this immense loss. Tyler was an exemplary student and a caring, bright star of a human being. He was a real community builder while he was at CU. Our collective heart goes out to his family, friends, and loved ones. You will...
Daniel Sweeney: Earning a Fourth Degree!
I鈥檓 Daniel Sweeney. I鈥檓 an adult learner now (I think that鈥檚 what we call it), getting a Bachelors鈥� in Geography on the GIS Track. I have a college degree in Languages and Literature, and a Masters鈥� degree in Library Science, and another Masters鈥� degree in Computer Science, and have studied...
Matthew Woodland: Undergraduate Update
Recently, I was awarded an Undergraduate Research Opportunities Program (UROP) Individual Grant for the Summer 2023 term to work on the project, 鈥淐haracterizing Spatiotemporal Changes of Wildland Urban Interfaces in the United States.鈥� Under the mentorship of Dr. Guofeng Cao , this project aims to characterize the spatiotemporal distribution of...
Alumni Updates
Alumni & Friends Celebration 2023
As you hopefully already know if you are a reader of this newsletter, the department organized an Alumni & Friends Celebration on March 23, 2023 at the Sheraton Denver Downtown, coinciding with the annual meeting of the American Association of Geographers which was held in Denver this year. The reception...
Alumni News Spring 2023
If you have any updates, please let us know using our alumni update form or send an email with your information to the department . We would love to hear from you about how your career has progressed since attending CU! Donald Friend, MA 1988 I have not wavered from...
Giving Back
Donor Support
Thank You! The Department of Geography is grateful to its alumni and friends for their financial support over the years. Our donors have had a big impact, making a difference not only to the Department as a whole, but to the lives of many individual students. As we strive for...