Drought-squeezed African Maasai suggest climate-change strategies

Aug. 6, 2013

The devastating drought of 2009 in northern Tanzania generated new coping strategies by Maasai people, suggesting that Maasai with more money and social connections are better able than their poorer, less-connected neighbors to endure extreme events such as drought and, potentially, climate change, a team of University of Colorado Boulder...

Climate change could spark more wars but evidence is mixed

Aug. 1, 2013

A 'metastudy' of 60 other studies suggests that there is a clear link between the climate and violence. Global warming raises the specter of more conflict, especially in Africa. Read article in The Christian Science Monitor

Research Looks at Lakes in New Way

July 4, 2013

Miles Offshore, Are Lighthouse Cribs Beginning to Rot from Air Exposure? Professor Peter Blanken's research on the Great Lakes takes a new look at Winter Evaporation as Key Process in Water Levels. This research is featured in an article from the July 4, 2013 The St. Ignace News.

Waleed Abdalati named new director of CIRES

July 2, 2013

Waleed Abdalati has been named the new director of the Cooperative Institute for Research in Environmental Sciences, or CIRES, a joint institute of the University of Colorado Boulder and the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration. Abdalati is a CIRES Fellow, a CU-Boulder professor of geography and director of the CIRES...

Meagan Todd Receives Dissertation Development Award Fellowship

June 20, 2013

This fellowship is awarded by the Social Science Research Council (SSRC), Eurasia Program.

CU-Boulder Video Production Gets Emmy Nod

June 19, 2013

“Water: A Zero Sum Game†has been nominated by the Heartland Chapter of the National Academy of Television Arts and Sciences for an Emmy Award in the “Environment: Program/Feature†category. Produced by the Office University Outreach’s Learn More 91ÖÆƬ³§ Climate Initiative, this five-minute video investigates how climate change is threatening...

Monica T. Rother and Thomas T. Veblen receive a Colorado Mountain Club Foundation Fellowship

June 1, 2013

Monica T. Rother and Thomas T. Veblen receive a Colorado Mountain Club Foundation Fellowship

Joel Correia Awarded FLAS Fellowship

May 23, 2013

Joel was awarded a summer Foreign Language and Area Studies Fellowship to study Guaraní in Paraguay from the Duke University Center for Latin American and Caribbean Studies

Tim Oakes awarded NSF grant

May 22, 2013

Tim Oakes was awarded a $230,272 grant from the National Science Foundation for the project "Re-ordering public space, governing urban citizens: evaluating the effects of urban spatial transformation" in SW China. Oakes is collaborating with Professor Wu Xiaoping of Guizhou Minzu University on the project, which studies the redevelopment of...

Julia Hicks Receives CMCF Fellowship

May 17, 2013

Julia has been awarded the Neal Kindig Fellowship from the Colorado Mountain Club Foundation. Since 1982 The Colorado Mountain Club Foundation has awarded fellowships for research that parallel the Statement of Purpose adopted by the founders of The Colorado Mountain Club in 1912. The Foundation solicits applications from students enrolled...

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