Chair Update
Message from the Chair Fall 2023
This fall, we welcomed Jessica Finlay to the Department. Dr. Finlay, featured in this newsletter, is an Assistant Professor examining health geographies, neighborhoods, aging, and well-being. We also welcomed Sean Dunn as the Department鈥檚 new program administrator. Sean has quickly become an integral and valuable member of the Geography Department...
Faculty News and Updates
Abdalati hosts Discussion on Space-Based Research during International Space Station Research and Development Conference
On August 2, 2023, CIRES Director and Geography professor, Waleed Abdalati , hosted a discussion at the International Space Station Research and Development Conference (ISSRDC) with Dr. Susan Margules, Head of the National Science Foundation鈥檚 Engineering Directorate. The session was entitled 鈥淎dvancing Space-Based Scientific Knowledge Through Fundamental Research,鈥� and it...
Truelove and Fluri awarded by SPARC to Investigate Gender, Caste, and Water Inequities in North Indian Cities
The fragmented water supply in Shimla, India. Photo Credit: Naomi Hazarika Assistant Professor Yaffa Truelove and Professor Jennifer Fluri have been awarded a Government of India SPARC grant in collaboration with Dr. Anu Sabhlok and Dr. Ritajyoti Bandopadhyay at the Indian Institute of Science, Education, and Research (IISER) Mohali. This...
Using an Equitable Co-Production Framework for Integrating Meaningful Community Engagement and Science to Understand Climate Impacts
By Keith Musselman The Arctic and rivers located in the Arctic and subarctic are warming due to climate change. To understand the impacts this warming will have on people, partnering with impacted Indigenous communities in the region is important. It is also important that these partnerships are ethical and equitable...
Sarah Schlosser Advancing Education with Open educational resources (OER) Initiative
Sarah Schlosser's OER Grant for GEOG 3053 GIS: Mapping at CU Boulder The University of Colorado System is embarking on a multi-campus Open educational resources (OER) initiative. Open CU 's goal is to have a positive impact on thousands of students in financial savings and will increase the quality of...
Jessica Finlay joins the Department of Geography and Institute of Behavioral Science
Jessica is a health geographer who uses mixed methods to investigate how built, social, and natural environments impact health and wellbeing across the life course. She has developed a new concept, Cognability, to capture how neighborhoods may support brain health through opportunities to exercise, socialize, and think/learn in later life...
Jessica Finlay presents to the National Academies
New Assistant Professor, Dr. Jessica Finlay was part of an "Aging in Place with Dementia" workshop hosted by the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine. She presented her Cognability research to investigate how neighborhood built and social environments impact brain-healthy activities and risk for Alzheimer's disease in later life...
Student Updates
PhD student Priscilla Corbett presents work at the World Bank Group in Washington D.C.
Geography PhD student Priscilla (Pris) Corbett presented work at the 2023 Annual Institute of the Society of Policy Scientists, held November 9-10 at the World Bank Headquarters in Washington D.C. Pris presented evidence of the potential of women鈥檚 self-help groups (SHGs) for women鈥檚 empowerment and poverty alleviation based on previous...
Kylen Solvik Receives NASA FINESST Award
PhD Candidate Kylen Solvik and Assistant Professor Yaffa Truelove were recently awarded a NASA FINESST Grant for Solvik's dissertation research titled "Mapping and Analyzing the Distribution and Drivers of Small Agricultural Reservoirs in Brazil''. The FINESST (Future Investigators in NASA Earth and Space Science and Technology) award, part of NASA's...
Isaiah Lyons-Galante developing GeoVisualizations at the National Renewable Energy Lab
My name is Isaiah Lyons-Galante . I am a second-year masters student in Geography. Since the start of my program, I have been working as a Graduate Research Assistant at the National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL) on data visualization research with my advisor, Morteza Karimzadeh . I am tackling a...
Behzad Vahedi doing a PhD Residency at X - The Moonshot Factory
Last August I started a PhD residency at X, the moonshot factory . X is a research and development branch of Google (or more precisely Alphabet). X is a diverse group of inventors and entrepreneurs who build and launch technologies that aim to improve the lives of millions, even billions,...
Alumni Updates
Lucy Citrine, BA 2021: From Fluvial Geomorphology Research to Mapping Underground Utilities
Lucy Citrine While at CU, I had the opportunity to work with the Fluvial Geomorphology Research Group. My work with the group started in the summer of 2021 in Capitol Reef National Park, where I assisted with research on the influences of hydrogeomorphic processes on floodplain dynamics and vegetation along...
Molly Guiney, MA 2021: Improving Stream Function and Watershed Health
My name is Molly Guiney , and I graduated in 2021 with a master鈥檚 degree specializing in fluvial geomorphology. Advised by Dr. Katherine Lininger , I studied how landscape disturbances, such as floods and fires, can influence the deposition of wood onto floodplains in the Colorado Front Range. My time...
Brief Alumni Updates
As mentioned at the top of the newsletter, 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. The...
Donor Support
Thank You! The Department of Geography is grateful to its alumni and friends for their financial support over the years. Our donors have had a big impact, making a difference not only to the Department as a whole, but to the lives of many individual students. As we strive for...