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My name is Dr. Lionel D. Lyles. I graduated in August 1977 with my Doctoral Degree in Urban-Historical Geography with an emphasis on the evolutionary development of contemporary urban problems. My major Professors at the time were, namely, Theodore
Thriving in an Academic Career: An International and Interdisciplinary Guide for Early Career Faculty Joseph Kerski wrote Chapter 13 - Integrating web mapping and geospatial technologies – in a new book that
With climate change causing a water supply crisis in high mountain Asia, a panel of experts, including Don, gathered in summer 2024 to discuss the biophysical and human impacts of this crisis in an “International Expert Dialogue on Mountains, People
Posner and her Research Assistant, Noor Hussein Noor, piloting the questionnaire with a Samburu pastoralist at his manyatta (homestead) March 2025. Sarah Posner is a PhD candidate in the Department of
Members of the Co-teaching team (Pictured from left to right: Mariah Bowman, Brigid Mark, Sara Fleming, and Sean Benjamin) The Geography Department is offering a new Special Topics course this semester, GEOG4002
My name is Millie Spencer, and I am a 3rd year PhD candidate in the Geography Department. I am currently on a Fulbright Award studying glacier retreat and its downstream impacts in south-central Chile.
Figure: Professor Abdalati (4th from the right) in the lobby of the Capitol Building with other Cooperative Institute Directors On March 24-25, Cooperative Institute for Research in Environmental Sciences (CIRES
Water shapes the planet and all life upon it. Breaking down traditional disciplinary barriers, this accessible, holistic introduction to the role and importance of water in Earth's physical and biological environments assumes no
The water cycle is something we’ve all heard about. Water falls from the sky, soaks into soils and forms streams and rivers that fill lakes or flow into oceans. Evaporation returns water to the atmosphere, and the cycle continues
Recently, the Mountain Hydrology Group released its fifth near-real-time report on snow-water equivalent (SWE) in the Western US in 2025, and was covered in an INSTAAR press release. In essence, the report provides a snapshot of how much water