/geography/ en /geography/2025/12/08/ellen-considine-joining-department-geography-and-cires <span>Ellen Considine Joining the Department of Geography and CIRES</span> <span><span>Gabriela Rocha Sales</span></span> <span><time datetime="2025-12-08T13:52:11-07:00" title="Monday, December 8, 2025 - 13:52">Mon, 12/08/2025 - 13:52</time> </span> <div> <div class="imageMediaStyle focal_image_wide"> <img loading="lazy" src="/geography/sites/default/files/styles/focal_image_wide/public/2025-06/Ellen_Considine.jpg?h=b646a0fe&amp;itok=S8OXpaPE" width="1200" height="800" alt="Ellen Considine"> </div> </div> <div role="contentinfo" class="container ucb-article-categories" itemprop="about"> <span class="visually-hidden">Categories:</span> <div class="ucb-article-category-icon" aria-hidden="true"> <i class="fa-solid fa-folder-open"></i> </div> <a href="/geography/taxonomy/term/106"> Feature-Faculty </a> <a href="/geography/taxonomy/term/1463"> New Faculty </a> <a href="/geography/taxonomy/term/60"> News </a> </div> <div role="contentinfo" class="container ucb-article-tags" itemprop="keywords"> <span class="visually-hidden">Tags:</span> <div class="ucb-article-tag-icon" aria-hidden="true"> <i class="fa-solid fa-tags"></i> </div> <a href="/geography/taxonomy/term/1483" hreflang="en">Ellen Considine</a> <a href="/geography/taxonomy/term/1460" hreflang="en">Newsletter</a> </div> <div class="ucb-article-content ucb-striped-content"> <div class="container"> <div class="paragraph paragraph--type--article-content paragraph--view-mode--default"> <div class="ucb-article-text" itemprop="articleBody"> <div> <div class="align-left image_style-small_500px_25_display_size_"> <div class="imageMediaStyle small_500px_25_display_size_"> <img loading="lazy" src="/geography/sites/default/files/styles/small_500px_25_display_size_/public/2025-06/Ellen_Considine.jpg?itok=pXduWaBQ" width="375" height="375" alt="Ellen Considine"> </div> </div> <p><span>In August 2025,&nbsp;</span><a href="/geography/ellen-considine" rel="nofollow"><span>Ellen Considine</span></a><span> 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 program at CU Boulder.</span></p><p><span>Ellen’s research focuses on the application of innovative data science methods to address environmental health challenges, both to evaluate the status quo and to design data-driven monitoring and intervention strategies to promote public health and equity. Recent examples of her work include investigating the air quality impacts of nation-level plastic waste policies (via the mechanism of open burning) using a combination of remotely sensed data and causal inference methods, and developing a framework with which reinforcement learning (a branch of AI) can be used to optimize issuance of heat alerts for public health.</span></p><p><span>She received her PhD in Biostatistics from the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, funded by a National Science Foundation Graduate Research Fellowship. Previously, as an undergraduate at CU Boulder (BS in applied math, minors in geography and economics),&nbsp;Ellen&nbsp;worked in Earth Lab, mentored by Colleen Reid. In October 2025, Ellen&nbsp;was welcomed back to Earth Lab and gave a research talk –&nbsp;</span><a href="https://earthlab.colorado.edu/blog/advancing-environmental-health-decision-making-data-science" rel="nofollow"><span>recording available</span></a><span>.</span></p><p><span>In both Fall 2025 and Spring 2026, Ellen is teaching GEOG 3023: Statistics &amp; Geographic Data.</span></p><p><a href="https://cires.colorado.edu/news/new-semester-welcomes-new-cires-fellow-ellen-considine" rel="nofollow"><span>CIRES also published an article, welcoming Ellen to our faculty</span></a><span>!&nbsp;</span></p></div> </div> </div> </div> </div> <h2> <div class="paragraph paragraph--type--ucb-related-articles-block paragraph--view-mode--default"> <div>Off</div> </div> </h2> <div>Traditional</div> <div>0</div> <div>On</div> <div>White</div> Mon, 08 Dec 2025 20:52:11 +0000 Gabriela Rocha Sales 3923 at /geography