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My name is Isaiah Lyons-Galante . I am a second-year masters student in Geography. Since the start of my program, I have been working as a Graduate Research Assistant at the National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL) on data visualization research with my advisor, Morteza Karimzadeh . I am tackling a...

PhD Candidate Kylen Solvik and Assistant Professor Yaffa Truelove were recently awarded a NASA FINESST Grant for Solvik's dissertation research titled "Mapping and Analyzing the Distribution and Drivers of Small Agricultural Reservoirs in Brazil''. The FINESST (Future Investigators in NASA Earth and Space Science and Technology) award, part of NASA's...

Geography PhD student Priscilla (Pris) Corbett presented work at the 2023 Annual Institute of the Society of Policy Scientists, held November 9-10 at the World Bank Headquarters in Washington D.C. Pris presented evidence of the potential of women’s self-help groups (SHGs) for women’s empowerment and poverty alleviation based on previous...

As mentioned at the top of the newsletter, 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. The...

My name is Molly Guiney , and I graduated in 2021 with a master’s degree specializing in fluvial geomorphology. Advised by Dr. Katherine Lininger , I studied how landscape disturbances, such as floods and fires, can influence the deposition of wood onto floodplains in the Colorado Front Range. My time...

Lucy Citrine While at CU, I had the opportunity to work with the Fluvial Geomorphology Research Group. My work with the group started in the summer of 2021 in Capitol Reef National Park, where I assisted with research on the influences of hydrogeomorphic processes on floodplain dynamics and vegetation along...

An international team of researchers has released an exhaustive look at support for Russia’s autocratic President Vladimir Putin across several neighboring countries. The study, published Nov. 30 in the journal Political Geography, was a massive effort. From 2019 to 2020, researchers led by John O’Loughlin at CU Boulder contracted with...

Xiaoling Chen 's essay titled "‘ They Want the Horse to Run but Without Providing Feed’ : Labour Exploitation of Healthcare Workers in China " was published in the journal Made In China , as part of the issue "Out of the Fog" . Completed in Spring 2023, this essay...

Elsa Culler Earth Data Science Instructor Earthlab and ESIIL CIRES University of Colorado Boulder Abstract In situ Earth Data are unevenly distributed around the world. How can we then develop tools — resource planning, hazard warnings systems, climate adaptation plans — that benefit people around the world? We’ll start off...

Requisition Number: 53023 Location: Boulder, Colorado Employment Type: Research Faculty Schedule: Full-Time Date Posted: 16-Nov-2023 We invite applications for a postdoctoral research associate at the University of Colorado Boulder (CU Boulder), with a flexible starting date of January 2023. The initial offer is for 12 months, with strong potential for...