Department News

Amy was selected as a 2010-2011 CHA fellow to contribute to the Center's interdisciplinary investigation on China.

Andrew Linke was awarded a Doctoral Dissertation Research Improvement Award for 2010-2011 from the Geography and Regional Science program of the National Science Foundation.

Registration has begun for the 2010 Workshop of the Geography Faculty Development Alliance (GFDA). It will be held 13-19 at the University of Colorado at Boulder. Registration is available through the website of the Association of American Geographers. A minimum of 25 participants are needed to meet the costs of...

Mark Williams receives National Science Foundation GEO grant: Developing a Methodology to Estimate Snow Depth from GPS Data; $380,051; 1/1/10- 12/31/12

Michelle Stewart receives Research Associate Award University of Wisconsin-Madison NSF IGERT Training Program on Biodiversity Conservation and Sustainable Development in Southwest China: The faces of “gold”: Towards greater understanding of the ecological and social aspects of Tibetan harvesting of Cordyceps sinensis in NW Yunnan: (PI) $3000

A contingent from the University of Colorado at Boulder will be attending the United Nations climate conference in Copenhagen December 7 to 18. Known as the 15th Conference of the Parties, or COP 15, the international climate conference will include representatives of 192 countries. The U.N. is seeking an agreement...

Despite a slight recovery in summer Arctic sea ice in 2009 from record-setting low years in 2007 and 2008, the sea ice extent remains significantly below previous years and remains on a trend leading toward ice-free Arctic summers, according to the University of Colorado at Boulder's National Snow and Ice...

Mark Williams receives National Science Foundation CMG Grant: "Multiscale nonlinear domain decomposition method for modeling the impact of climate change on groundwater resources"; $564,704; 9/1/09-8/31/12