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Our students and faculty also received various grants, awards, and accolades. PhD student, Tsering Lhamo, received a Fulbright Fellowship and the Summer Foreign Language Area Studies Award to study Nepali language at the Rangjung Yeshe Institute in Katmandu, Nepal. PhD student, David Bachrach, also received the Summer Foreign Language Areas Studies Award to study Indonesian language at Indonesia’s Language Center in Bandung, Indonesia. PhD student, Naomi Hazarika, was awarded the Wenner-Gren Foundation’s Dissertation Fieldwork Grant to conduct year-long ethnographic fieldwork in informal settlements in the city of Delhi, India. PhD student, Xiaoling Chen, won the AAG China Specialty Group Annual Student Paper Award. PhD Student, Holly Roth, was the recipient of the Water Scholar Award from the Colorado State University Libraries. PhD student, Gabriella Subia-Smith, received the CU-Boulder Graduate School Summer Writing Fellowship. PhD students, Naomi Hararika, Prakriti Mukerjee, and Priscilla Corbett, all received the Zena Hunter Andrews Graduate Student Award through the Beverly Sears Graduate Student Grant Program at CU-Boulder. Many of our graduate and undergraduate students also received awards from the Department of Geography, and will be recognized at our awards luncheon on May 9, 2023, and at commencement on May 11, 2023. 

Our faculty continue to be leaders in their respective research fields, and several have received grants and fellowships, and awards for their accomplishments. Assistant Professor, Katherine Lininger, received the prestigious NSF CAREER grant for her project titled “Rivers of Carbon: assessing how humans have altered floodplain organic carbon stocks across the contiguous United States”. Professor Emily Yeh was named a Phi Beta Kappa Visiting Scholar for the 2023-2024 academic year. Professor Yeh also received the CU-Boulder Sustainability Award. Professor Tim Oakes was awarded the AAG China Geography Specialty Group’s Outstanding Service Award. Professor Oakes was also awarded a Fulbright Global Scholar Award for his project “The hinterlands of Global China: infrastructures and life beyond the urban.” Emeritus Professor, Babs Buttenfield, received the USGS 2023 CaGIS Distinguished Career Award recognizing her outstanding and impressive career.

The American Association of Geographer’s Annual Meeting occurred in person for the first time since 2019 due to the COVID-19 pandemic. The AAG meeting was in Denver and the Department of Geography hosted an Alumni and Friends celebration at the Sheraton Hotel. This evening was filled with much joy, celebration, and reconnection, along with lightening talks from graduate students Ben Barron, Emma Rieves, Xiaoling Chen, and Diego Melo. We also celebrated Babs Buttenfield’s retirement, which included many accolades from her former and current graduate students. Please see the article on the Alumni event in this newsletter for more information and photographs. 

Many congratulations to our faculty and students for their accomplishments. We hope you enjoy your summer, and we will be back with more updates in our fall newsletter. 

Lininger’s project will determine how much organic carbon is stored in river floodplains in soil, vegetation, and downed wood across the United States. It will assess how human activities such as levees, dams, and land use change have changed carbon storage in floodplains (Figure 1). Floodplains store large amounts of carbon, but there are no US-scale estimates of how much carbon floodplains store or how human activities have changed carbon storage. The negative impacts of climate change on the environment and on humans motivate an interest in removing carbon from the atmosphere. Floodplains could store more carbon, but we do not adequately understand the potential for increasing carbon storage through changing how floodplains are managed.  

Through work on the 5-year CAREER award, Lininger will 1) compare floodplain carbon storage in human modified and unmodified floodplains in understudied regions of the USA through extensive fieldwork, 2) use field-based estimates of floodplain carbon storage to determine whether it is accurate to use publicly available geospatial datasets to estimate floodplain carbon storage, 3) determine how much carbon is stored in floodplains across the USA and the potential storage if human modifications (for example, levees, dams, and land use change) were reduced, and 4) create course modules for high school, undergraduate, and graduate students and create outreach materials through collaborations with non-profit organizations. The project will also support training graduate students in communicating science to policy makers and management agencies through interactions with non-profit organizations. Lininger hopes to build the science of floodplain carbon storage to bring information to managers so that it can be considered in river and floodplain management activities. The work will also help determine the locations in the USA and within watersheds where maximum floodplain carbon storage occurs. 

Back in December, CIRES Director and Geography professor Waleed Abdalati testified before the Subcommittee on Space and Science in a hearing titled “Landsat at 50 & the Future of U.S. Satellite-based Earth Observation.” The subcommittee hearing, convened by Sen. John Hickenlooper (D-CO), highlighted critical Earth observation satellite data, the rise of commercial satellite providers, and the value this data adds to agriculture, city planning, water management, wildfire prevention and detection, and disaster response. 

“The 50-year record of  highlights the value of space-based observations in understanding how our Earth is changing, and how those observations benefit the lives of people,” said Abdalati, “The view from space offered by Landsat and the many other Earth-observing satellites, provides a context, scale, and perspective of change critical to predicting weather, managing hazards, meeting the challenges of climate change, and so much more. They are an indispensable tool in effectively navigating and managing our changing environment.” 

Abdalati, who was the former chief scientist at NASA from 2011-2012, joined current NASA chief scientist Kate Calvin as well as leadership from NOAA, Maxar Technologies, and USGS at the hearing.  

Abdalati and U.S. Senator from Colorado, John Hickenlooper

Emily Yeh Wins Campus Sustainability Awards and “Green Faculty” Title

The University of Colorado recognizes outstanding efforts toward continuing the leadership and legacy of sustainability at ���񱦵�. Since 1997 the Annual Campus Sustainability Awards have recognized individuals, departments, and offices that have made a significant contribution to reducing the ecological footprint and increasing the resilience of campus infrastructure and improving social cohesion and equity in campus communities. Outstanding efforts make CU's successful and challenging approaches to attaining sustainability possible. The awardees exemplify CU's continuing efforts to become a sustainable institution and set an example for environmental stewardship and responsibility.  Some of the awardees have made groundbreaking efforts that will change the overall way CU operates, and others make an impact on the community and campus environment with their everyday actions.  The Awards happen every April in conjunction with the Campus Sustainability Summit. 

Emily Yeh is selected as one of the 14 Phi Beta Kappa Society Visiting Scholars 

Since 1956, the Phi Beta Kappa Society’s  has offered undergraduates the opportunity to spend time with some of America’s most distinguished scholars. The purpose of the program is to contribute to the intellectual life of the institution by making possible an exchange of ideas between the Visiting Scholars and the resident faculty and students. 
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Each year, members of the Committee on the Visiting Scholar Program select top scholars in the liberal arts and sciences to visit universities and colleges where Phi Beta Kappa chapters are located. Visiting Scholars spend two days on each campus meeting informally with undergraduates, participating in classroom lectures and seminars, and giving one major lecture open to the academic community and general public. 
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The 2023-2024 Visiting Scholars will make over 100 visits during the academic year. 

Keith is committed to building and encouraging a diverse research community and believes that society collectively benefits from the storytelling and communication that is made richer by our differences. Efforts to be more inclusive improve our knowledge and better serve smart decision strategies of individuals, organizations, and policymakers. Keith has authored over 32 publications, some of which are ranked in the top 1% of referenced Earth Science papers. His work has been featured broadly in media including the New York Times. He received an Outstanding Mentor Award from the University of Colorado in 2021. In his free time, Keith skis, snowboards, bikes, and floats rivers —increasingly finding himself in hot pursuit of his two young kids as the family recreates in Colorado and beyond. 

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’m from Brazil and my background is in geophysics, specifically in geological mapping and exploration. Since joining Morteza Karimzadeh’s team as Postdoctoral scientist in June 2022, I have been mainly working on developing new algorithms to map sea ice in polar regions using remote sensing data, with a particular focus on Synthetic Aperture Radar and machine learning techniques. 

My current research has important implications for understanding the dynamics of sea ice, its impact on climate and ecosystems in polar regions, and for safer navigation in ice-infested waters. Leveraging my expertise in geophysics, I bring a unique perspective to my work on this project. I am passionate about using spatial data to better understand the Earth's natural systems and visualize them in new and innovative ways. 

In addition to my research, I also enjoy mentoring and collaborating with students in my lab group to help them develop their skills and gain new insights. I believe that working with students is an essential part of being a researcher, and I find it extremely rewarding to learn from their fresh perspectives and develop new approaches to solving complex problems. 

I am especially excited about the outcome of my work as the co-investigator on a NASA proposal that focuses on using ICESat-2 lidar data to map sea ice in polar regions. We recently received notification that this project will be funded by NASA, helping us explore an alternative and novel approach to mapping sea ice, overcoming significant uncertainty in traditional ice charts and SAR measurements.   

Overall, I feel grateful to be part of the Department of Geography and work alongside such a talented group of researchers and scholars. I look forward to continuing to explore new frontiers in geospatial data analysis and making meaningful contributions to our understanding of the world around us.

Convolutional neural networks (CNNs) are useful for processing data organized in grids, such as remote sensing images. CNNs are composed of multiple filters that are iteratively updated to highlight different patterns in the data in a process called “training”. The image above is a representation of a collection of filters that are randomly initialized (left) and become more organized as training evolves (center). These filters are useful to separate ice from water (right).

The image on the left shows an RGB composition of Synthetic Aperture Radar from Sentinel-1 acquired on the East Coast of Greenland. Sea ice services use these types of data to manually interpret sea ice properties for large regions of the Arctic. The brighter “cyan” colored ice on the upper left contrasts to the darker water on the lower right. The image on the right shows the ice probability generated by an artificial intelligence algorithm. Yellow shows high ice probability and blue identifies low probability regions. The white dots show the boundary associated with ice interpreted by a sea ice analyst. We are developing algorithms that accelerate sea ice interpretation.

A camel train passing along the main street in Isiolo town in July 2022 on the way to non-traditional grazing.

Sarah Posner and John O’Loughlin with Terry McCabe (Institute of Behavioral Science) interviewing a government official in the Isiolo office on the drought’s extent and effects on local livelihoods.

The purpose of the July 2022 fieldwork was to share the survey results with local stakeholders (government officials, NGO’s, etc) and to discuss the findings in light of their local knowledge.  Key results were presented at the National Academy of Sciences, Committee on Geographical Sciences annual in December 2022.  Current plans include preparing a research article on the Isiolo case study and write research proposals to extend the study in comparative work on sites across Kenya’s diverse ecological and livelihood zones. 

Further accounts of the research were reported in ���񱦵� Today in May 2022  

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 be sorely missed, Tyler. Below is his obituary, reprinted from the Seattle Times.

Published on April 2, 2023 in :

Our beautiful boy, Tyler Roberts, came into this world on July 27, 1981 bringing with him an endless stream of love and joy to all he knew, a boundless passion to create paintings, a never-ending enthusiasm for traveling the world and a life-long desire to enjoy the outdoors. On March 3, 2023, Tyler passed after an unexpected and sudden illness.  

Tyler was raised in Brier, Washington and during the twenty years he lived there, he was active in Boy Scouts, reaching the rank of Eagle Scout. He spent his summer weekends boating in the San Juan Islands and winter weekends skiing in the mountains. He played football and wrestled at Mountlake Terrace High School where he graduated in 1999. 

Tylers academic career began at the University of Washington where earned a Bachelors degree in 2003, followed by a Masters degree at Arizona State University in 2006 and then a Doctorate degree at the University of Colorado in 2014. All three degrees were in geography. During college summer breaks, he worked as a Merchant Mariner on the MV Coho, the ferry that sails between Port Angeles and Victoria B.C. 

Immediately after attaining his Ph.D., he began his professional career at the Washington Department of Ecology, Central Regional Office in Yakima where he worked in water resources. Soon after, he was the Columbia River Watermaster. Tyler enjoyed the challenges of water-law, complex water projects and especially the camaraderie with fellow staff- whom he liked to humor. 

Pastimes included growing roses, buying and reading books, selling T-shirts depicting surreal art and was a prolific painter of art. Tyler was a world traveler, having journeyed to five continents. Tyler touched many people- his reach was vast and formed life-long friendships around the country. 

Tyler is survived by his parents, Susie and Dale Roberts, aunts and uncles, Robert and Pam Michajla, Tom and Patty Michajla, Steve Burkett, Hugh and Lynne Bennett, and Larry and Dana Heller. He is also survived by numerous cousins and grand cousins. Tyler was preceded in death by his beloved grandparents, Robert and Peggy Michajla, Earle and Patricia Roberts, and his aunt, Roberta Burkett. Tyler is now in heaven with his grandparents, his aunt and his beloved dog, Astro.  

Our beautiful boy is now gone but his too-short life of 41 years was jam-packed with love, adventure, scholarship, artistic endeavors and devoted friendships. Most of all, Tyler was the best son his parents could have hoped for. Tyler, you will be painfully missed, but never forgotten.  

In honor of Tyler, please spend a day with a loved one skiing, hiking or biking or donations can be made to Boy Scouts of America, Mt. Baker Council, Everett, WA. 

A Celebration of Life was held on April 15th at Queen City Yacht Club, Seattle.

To plant a tree in memory of Tyler Douglas Roberts, PhD, please visit .

I’m Daniel Sweeney. I’m an adult learner now (I think that’s what we call it), getting a Bachelors’ in Geography on the GIS Track.  I have a college degree in Languages and Literature, and a Masters’ degree in Library Science, and another Masters’ degree in Computer Science, and have studied some Math and Statistics in between the other things. Originally, I was going to get a certificate, or just study GIS a little bit, but things kind of snowballed, and I wound up coming back to get a full Bachelors degree. &�Բ�����;

It has been two years since I started studying in the Geography department, in the very end of the Covid pandemic. I did some work on spatial databases years ago, and have always been interested in GIS. Originally, I was thinking about a certificate but things sort of snowballed. The first class I took was Environment-Society Geography with Phurwa Dhondup Gurung, over the three-week May term. That was really eye-opening–it was three hours a day of a lot of things that I had thought about a lot in the past but needed a new framework to reason about. Population Geography with Fernando Riosmena in the fall also remixed a lot of things that I thought I knew into a new shape. &�Բ�����;

A lot of my education is pretty technical, because I was a computer nerd, and I studied Languages and Literature way back when. I knew I had some gaps in the social sciences. I’m glad that CU Geography helped me fill in some of those gaps while I also studied how to make maps and analyze spatial data. A lot of my TAs were physical geographers. Being able to work with them as I studied gave me another perspective on space and scale. You can tell from how I have written this that the interdisciplinary nature of geography has been really valuable for me. &�Բ�����;

Since I was a transfer who already had a college degree, a lot of my general requirements were satisfied. So, a large proportion of my coursework has been in Geography in the last two years (I did not look up the exact proportions, which usually I make people do when they engage in the rhetoric of data analysis). I think normally if you took a lot of classes in a single department, you would expect to have a lopsided education, but I feel like my relatively brief return to higher education in middle age has been very well-rounded for me. &�Բ�����;

Recently, I was awarded an Undergraduate Research Opportunities Program (UROP) Individual Grant for the Summer 2023 term to work on the project, “Characterizing Spatiotemporal Changes of Wildland Urban Interfaces in the United States.” Under the mentorship of Dr. Guofeng Cao, this project aims to characterize the spatiotemporal distribution of WUIs by taking advantage of computational resources, the availability of massive geospatial data, and advances in machine learning. This project also will understand the spatiotemporal trends of demographics, damages to communities, and climatic measurements. The findings can help advance the understanding of the changing wildfire risks posed to WUI communities, and provide insights for migration policies. Although this project will prove challenging, I feel confident in the GIS, remote sensing, and data science skills I’ve learned through department classes.  
 
I came to CU as a Geography major in the Fall of 2021. Originally brought here through the multidisciplinary nature of Geography, I was quickly drawn to GIScience and the intersection between the social and natural sciences. While only in my second year, I am firmly on track to graduate a year early, in May 2024, with a GIS emphasis and minors in both Geology and Atmospheric & Oceanic Sciences.  
 
Geography is my passion and so given my limited time at CU, I attempt to do as much as possible. During my first semester here, I was hired by the National Snow & Ice Data Center (NSIDC) as a technical writing assistant and have happily worked there for the previous 18+ months. The following spring, I looked to get into some undergraduate research, so I reached out to faculty and began working with Dr. Cao on our now UROP grant-funded project.  
 
To contribute back to the department, I have been a Lab Assistant for the introductory GIS class and worked as an ArcGIS Student Technician helping to rewrite labs. I also serve on the Undergraduate Committee as a student representative where I help to review curriculum issues and set policy for undergraduate studies.  
 
I am now a mentor for Earth Explorers, a science outreach program for middle school students interested in Earth science research. I work to support the students throughout the semester as they meet with CU scientists and make a film on their research.  
 
This summer, in addition to the UROP research, I will be completing an internship with the geospatial software company, Esri, in Charlotte, North Carolina. I look forward to returning to Boulder in the fall where I will be starting my final year of undergraduate studies. Post-graduation, I plan to advance my education through a graduate degree program.  
 
I would like to thank the ���񱦵� Geography Department for its supportive and motivating environment in which students thrive. Finally, a special thanks to each of my instructors and also my undergraduate research professor, Dr. Guofeng Cao, all of which encourage me to be the best I can be. &�Բ�����;

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 was a blast! There were over 150 people in attendance, including graduate and undergraduate alumni spanning the decades, from the early 1970s to the present, as well as former faculty members, and current faculty and students. We’ve heard from a number of attendees how much they appreciated the opportunity to see so many friends and reconnect with both the department and other alumni. 

In addition to mingling, the event also had several organized components. Four doctoral students, Xiaoling Chen, Diego Melo, Emma Rieves, and Ben Barron gave excellent lightning talks – 3 minute, fast paced and to-the-point overviews of their respective dissertation research projects. Other graduate students and postdoctoral fellows made research posters that were displayed around the room. These were by Sade Cromratie Clemons, Gabriella Subia Smith, Claire Simpson, Zhongying Wang, Behzad Vahedi, Priscilla Corbett, and Rafael Pires de Lima. Part of the evening was dedicated to celebrating the career of Babs Buttenfield, who retired at the end of 2020, but continues to be active in research, and who recently won the 2023 CaGIS . Several of her former and current students and colleagues, including Samantha Arundel, Ming-Hsiang Tsou, Larry Stanislawski, Jeff Hammerlink, André Skupin, Yi Qiang, and Georgios Charisoulis spoke to her achievements and influence on them. Lastly, we had hoped to announce the winners of this year’s graduate awards, but too much fun was being had to quiet down the room sufficiently for this to happen!

To prepare for the event, the department made several posters of our entering graduate cohorts going back to the mid-1990s, which alumni had fun finding themselves on. Because geographers do such interesting fieldwork all over the world, we also printed more than a dozen beautiful and interesting fieldwork photos submitted by faculty and students. These decorated the hotel reception room and will now  brighten the walls of Guggenheim. The graduate students also organized a silent auction of items including cloth topographical maps and books authored by current faculty members. 

We hope this event was just the first of many ways that we develop closer and ongoing relationships with our alumni. If you didn’t RSVP for the event but are willing to, we ask that you update your contact information via the alumni site, or if you’d rather, update here just for the department. Finally, we rely on the generous support of our alumni and friends, please if you are willing and able. 

Selected Photos:

Collage (faux bulletin board) presented to Babs in honor of her retirement:

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 the theme of mountain geography garnered at Boulder. I am now Distinguished Professor of Geography at Minnesota State University. I served AY 2019-2020 as a National Academies Jefferson Science Fellow in the Office of Global Climate Change at USAID.

I am honored and inspired every day to continue on as a geographer serving as a University Professor.

Nick Rising, BA 2007

I am currently living in Denver, CO working for U.S. Department of Energy (Attorney-Advisor) and U.S. Department of Energy (Attorney-Advisor).

Comments from RSVPs for the Alumni & Friends Celebration

Richard Schaffer, 1974

I also have a GIS certificate and currently work for FEMA (Federal Emergency Management Agency) doing Planning and GIS work during disasters.

Alton Byers, 1975 BA; 1987 PhD

Both degrees were especially memorable experiences. Having the Mountain Research Station so close to campus was another huge bonus for someone interested in alpine ecosystems.

Alice Mulder, PhD 2003

Very sorry to miss AAG and this gathering in particular.  I have a sustainability conference we host from the center I direct at my institution on the same days, or I would be there.

Elliot Lim, 2007

I'm very happy that I received my Geography degree from the University of Colorado and now I'm working in the field. 

Susan Clarke

I co-authored with Lynn Staeheli, Geography faculty emerita, as well as with my husband, Gary L. Gaile, Geography faculty emeritus. I was on several Geography PhD committees and maintain contact with many of those students. I also initiated the Gary L. Gaile Travel Fund through the CU Development Office. Susan E. Clarke, Professor of Political Science, Emerita

Yu (Aloe) Rioux, PhD 2008

While I am not able to attend the 2023 AAG since I am not working in the field of geography any more, I deeply appreciate the education I have received from CU Geography! I miss the days in Guggenheim. I miss my fellow graduate students, my advisor Tim Oakes, and my committee members Ken Foote, Elizabeth Dunn, and Rachel Silvey, and the Asian/China geographers (Emily Yeh et al.) -- wishing you all well! Here's also to the fond memories of Dr. Gary Gaile!

Richa Nagar, Faculty at ���񱦵�, Geography from 1995-1997

Wish I could make it, but I am unable to attend this year. Would love to stay connected about things happening in ���񱦵� Geography Dept, especially in Human/ Feminist/ and South Asian/SWANA Geography.

Lionel Lyles, PhD 1977

My emphasis was on historical and contemporary social, economic, and political problems. Over the past 40 years, I have applied Marxist-Leninist Philosophy to American Political Economy, demonstrating through the use of scientific socialism that the American Working Class has been situated in an oppressed condition, along with a myriad forms of social and economic injustices.

Martin Price, PhD 1988

I retired at the end of January 2021 from my role as (Founding) Director of the Centre for Mountain Studies, Perth College, University of the Highlands and Islands (UHI). I am now Professor Emeritus with UHI, and remain active within UNESCO's Man and the Biosphere (MAB) Programme.  Recently, I contributed the Epilogue to the second edition of 'Sustainable Mountain Development: Getting the Facts Right' by Prof. Jack D. Ives, my PhD supervisor.  This was published by Springer:

Eileen Reedy, 1985 Environmental Conservation

I was able to use my degree for only one of several jobs, that of Junior Planner for the City of San Diego. I now have a Masters degree in Counseling and work in that field. Best wishes to the new grads.

Melanie Peterson-Nafziger, MA 1998

So sorry to miss this celebration! I taught high school social studies courses including global politics and theory of knowledge and coordinated the International Baccalaureate Program for about 20 years and am now working for the national non-profit World Savvy, striving to transform US education to center global competence so students are equipped to collaborate and strategically influence the world's complex challenges! Best wishes everybody!

Lavinia (Simons) Ycas, BA 1973

I was a TA for Ted Myers in my senior year, & unofficially minored in history. Wound up working in Reference at Boulder Public Library for over 2 decades & then at the Boulder Carnegie Library for Local History for another 5 years. My degree was a great background for both! I also took courses with Gilbert White, to my everlasting satisfaction. 

Craig Harper, BA 1982

I work for a drinking water utility in SW Oregon as a source water (watershed) protection specialist. I would like to connect with other alumni from the 80's.

Beth Potter, 1976

I live in Alaska and worked for years in coastal management and water quality. I’m now retired. The professors I remember the most are Nick Helburn, Horace Quick, and Patrick Webber.

Gina Li, MA 2019

Sorry I can't make it! It's too far, but I would otherwise love to be there! I'll be at SOTMUS 2023 this year in Richmond VA, so if anyone from the department is going, I'd love to meet up. Thank you for the invitation! Love to see our class made the cover :)

Jamie Rosa, BA 2010

Please keep me on email list serv, any research assistant projects or volunteer opportunities on or off campus, please let me know.

Andrea Ray, PhD 2004

So glad you're doing this! I'm looking forward to it.  Please keep me on your list for other local events - I'm still in Boulder working for NOAA

Nancy Hoalst-Pullen, PhD 2008

Say hi to Karen W.!  She's the best admin assistant I've ever known!

Nancy Nolan, 1980 Environmental Conservation

Would love to get in touch with some other alumni from around the same time, or professors or graduate students during that time. Lee Moll was a classmate that I lost touch with and regret that!   Nice to hear from you. Sorry I won’t be able to make this - really wish that I could. Nancy Nolan, Anchorage, Alaska

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