Babs Buttenfield

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 CU Boulder. Since 1997 the Annual Campus Sustainability Awards have recognized individuals, departments, and offices that have made a significant contribution to reducing the...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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’Loughlin (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...

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...

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...

Assistant Professor Katherine Lininger has received an NSF Career Award for her project titled, "Rivers of Carbon: assessing how humans have altered floodplain organic carbon stocks across the contiguous United States.” The Faculty Early Career Development (CAREER) Program is a Foundation-wide activity that offers the National Science Foundation's most prestigious awards in...

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...