Department of Geography, CU Boulder

Inaugural Sustainability Research Initiative Research Fellows unveiled This SRI Research Fellowship will serve as a year-long incubator designed to bring together CU Boulder researchers from across academic units, disciplines and

Congrats to CIRES' Cibele Hummel do Amaral, Virginia Iglesias, and Katherine Siegel, who are part of the inaugural cohort of Sustainability Research Initiative Research Fellows at @colorado.edu!
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Wildfires that burn buildings create significantly more air pollution | NCAR & UCAR News Learn about our resources for journalists, our brand guidelines & how to contact our staff.

ICYMI — Fires that burn buildings in the wildland-urban interface create more air pollution, according to work led by @ncar-ucar.bsky.social and co-authored by CIRES scientists @earthlabcu.bsky.social, @cu-esiil.bsky.social & @cugeography.bsky.social.

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This week's colloquium!
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Wildfires that burn buildings create significantly more air pollution | NCAR & UCAR News Learn about our resources for journalists, our brand guidelines & how to contact our staff.

Fires that burn buildings in the wildland-urban interface create more air pollution, according to work led by @ncar-ucar.bsky.social and co-authored by CIRES scientists @earthlabcu.bsky.social, @cu-esiil.bsky.social & @cugeography.bsky.social.

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Come celebrate with the Geography department! Food, fun, games! Winter Cross-cultural Celebration. Losar, Ramadan, Holi, Lunar New Year and the Chinese Spring Festival, Imbolc, Mardi Gras, and Valentine's Day. Wednesday, February 25th 5:30-7:30pm in the Guggenheim Building 101.

Colorado Geographies Panel In the geographic tradition of Clyde Woods, this panel underscores the knowledge holders of Colorado, making visible the everyday ways in which our speakers

This week's colloquium: The Colorado Geographies Panel at the Maps Library!

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Bodies as Infrastructure: Gender, Water, and situated infrastructural violence in North Indian Cities Over the last decade, a growing number of North Indian cities have been declared “waterless,” referring to the temporary stoppage of piped water delivery for

This week's colloquium
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What Americans Lose If Their National Center for Atmospheric Research Is Dismantled - Eos Five ways dismantling NCAR will cost the American people, and two ways to save it.

"NCAR is not just another research center. It is purpose-built critical infrastructure designed to integrate observations, modeling, supercomputing, and applied research in ways that no single university, agency, or contractor can replicate on its own."
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An Indigenous Geopoetics for the Apocalypse

Colloquium this Friday!

A Mountain Debate on Climate/Relational Change: Revitalizing the Voice of Indigenous Territorial Sovereigns in Tibetan Contemporary Literature What do Tibetan mountains say about the recent climate change that is driven by and intensifies complex changes and disruptions to multiple relationships on the

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Our Fall 2025 Newsletter is out today!
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Photojournalist turning aerial art into climate archive CU Boulder geography alumnus Katie Writer shares Alaska’s changing landscape from the skies.

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Jessica Finlay Named 2026 RIO Faculty Fellow - Institute of Behavioral Science Assistant Professor of Geography and Institute of Behavioral Science (IBS) Faculty Fellow Jessica Finlay has been selected as one of 18 CU Boulder Research & Innovation Office (RIO) Faculty Fellows fo...

IBS Faculty and Fellow Jessica Finlay is one of 18 faculty fellows for the 2026 @colorado.edu #Research and #Innovation Office cohort! We caught up with Jessica to learn what this #fellowship means to her and what she hopes to accomplish:

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Pictures of the COGA Relaunch Party See pictures taken from the COGA Relaunch Party that took place on November 17th, 2025.

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Join us for the Geography Commencement Ceremony on Friday, December 12th in the Guggenheim Geography Building in room 205.

We do not require RSVPs or Tickets.

Pictures from our Grad School and Beyond panel.

Exploring Colorado’s untapped geothermal energy potential A major question looms over Colorado’s energy future: why does geothermal energy, a renewable resource, remain virtually untapped? CU Boulder researchers will

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Geography Alum: Shae Frydenlund

Pictures from the GEOG 4003-001: UAS for Earth Observation (aka the Drone class) field trip to the Mountain Research Station where students got to fly the LiDAR and Multispectral drones.

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Tuesday at 11:00 AM: Join this week’s @EarthLabcu.bsky.social Environmental Data Science Seminar Series featuring Ellen Considine, CIRES Fellow, who will present “Advancing environmental health decision-making with data science.” earthlab.colorado.edu/seminar

Join us for our Grad School and Beyond Panel.

Learn about getting into Grad School and what to expect when you get there.

Get advice from Geography faculty, staff and grad students.

@agu.org, the world's largest Earth and space science association, honors Jen Kay, Twila Moon, and Jennifer Balch with prestigious awards! Read: buff.ly/zYiL76Y .