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Ethan Carr, Geography MA alum 2024 and current Geography Ph.D. student has been selected as one of 12 Climate Youth Champions at the inaugural cohort of the Hindu-Kush-Himalaya - Arctic Youth Leadership Forum. The Champions were

Human Biometeorology and Urban Climate research have significantly advanced our understanding of urban heat, particularly through models, satellite data and physical measurements of urban fabric, geometry, and surface characteristics...

The Prison Agriculture Lab (PAL) and the Toxic Prisons Mapping Project (TPMP), two abolitionist collectives, work to advance the practice of abolition in daily life through scholar-activist projects focused, respectively, on food and environmental injustices in prisons...

A major question looms over Colorado’s energy future: why does geothermal energy — a natural renewable resource — remain virtually untapped?

CIRES Fellow Jennifer Balch was named a 2025 AGU Fellow. Balch is the director of ��ƷSM����ӰƬ’s Environmental Data Science Innovation & Impact Lab (ESIIL) and a professor of Geography.

Thank you to our graduate students, Nic Tarasewicz, Holly Roth, and Bella Kamplain for helping out the Science Bound Research Retreat students at the Mountain Research Station. See pictures below of Nic demonstrating how a drone gathers infrared

Geography alum’s book examines how the fate of the Netherlands, Great Britain and the United States as economic and political powers has been deeply intertwined with their ability to project power via the seas

Why Be a Star When You Could Make a Constellation?” traces solidarities of radical placemaking across Black, Indigenous, Asian and Latine communities in Tacoma and beyond. I intervene in movement histories to decenter traditional hubs of radical action (New York, the Bay Area) and predominantly male charismatic leaders...

Combining Local Knowledge and Western Sciences to Analyze Glacier Retreat and Water Security in South-Central Chile

Millie Spencer, PhD Candidate, University of Colorado, Boulder, CUAHSI Pathfinder Awardee 2024

Award will allow Associate Professor Katherine Lininger to teach at the University of Trento and conduct research on the Tagliamento River floodplain in Italy.