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Between 2021 and 2024, working in collaboration with the Center for Asian Studies, Tim Oakes hosted a series of four workshops on nuclear power development and disaster in Asia. The workshops were funded by a generous grant from the Albert Smith
As wildfire seasons intensify and air pollution continues to threaten public health, geographers are turning to new generations of artificial intelligence models to understand how environmental hazards unfold across space. Geography Professor
Assistant Professor Jessica Finlay and her co-author father Dr. Brett Finlay published The Microbiome Master Key: Harness Your Microbes to Unlock Whole-Body Health and Lifelong Vitality. In this popular science book, they explore
AGU, the world's largest Earth and space science association, celebrates individuals and teams through its annual Honors and Recognition program for their accomplishments in research, education, science communication, and
The Environmental Data Science Innovation and Impact Lab (ESIIL), a next-generation NSF synthesis center directed by Geography Professor Jennifer Balch, hosted its third annual Innovation Summit this September, bringing
My path to becoming an Assistant Professor at the Geography department started in Colombia, where I studied environmental engineering and anthropology. After working in a malaria surveillance and
In August 2025, Ellen Considine started as an Assistant Professor of Geography and a Fellow of CIRES (the Cooperative Institute for Research in Environmental Sciences). She is also a faculty affiliate of the new Public Health
The study, published in Scientific Reports, examines how rapid climate warming in Alaska is altering river conditions and threatening Chinook salmon populations that Indigenous communities have depended on for millennia.
CIRES Fellow Jennifer Balch was named a 2025 AGU Fellow. Balch is the director of CU Boulder’s Environmental Data Science Innovation & Impact Lab (ESIIL) and a professor of Geography.
Award will allow Associate Professor Katherine Lininger to teach at the ³Ô¹ÏÍø of Trento and conduct research on the Tagliamento River floodplain in Italy.