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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.
See pictures taken from the COGA Relaunch Party that took place on November 17th, 2025.
Ethan Carr, Geography MA alum 2024 and current Geography Ph.D. student has been selected as one of 12 Climate Youth Champions at the inaugural cohort of the Hindu-Kush-Himalaya - Arctic Youth Leadership Forum. The Champions were
Human Biometeorology and Urban Climate research have significantly advanced our understanding of urban heat, particularly through models, satellite data and physical measurements of urban fabric, geometry, and surface characteristics...
The Prison Agriculture Lab (PAL) and the Toxic Prisons Mapping Project (TPMP), two abolitionist collectives, work to advance the practice of abolition in daily life through scholar-activist projects focused, respectively, on food and environmental injustices in prisons...
A major question looms over Colorado’s energy future: why does geothermal energy — a natural renewable resource — remain virtually untapped?
In appreciation to our Alumni and Friends for their commitment to the department, the Department of Geography hosted a dinner on Sunday, October 5th at the Chautauqua Grand Assembly Hall.It was an evening of celebration as we shared and showcased
CIRES Fellow Jennifer Balch was named a 2025 AGU Fellow. Balch is the director of ¶¶ÒõÂÃÐÐÉä Boulder’s Environmental Data Science Innovation & Impact Lab (ESIIL) and a professor of Geography.
Thank you to our graduate students, Nic Tarasewicz, Holly Roth, and Bella Kamplain for helping out the Science Bound Research Retreat students at the Mountain Research Station. See pictures below of Nic demonstrating how a drone gathers infrared
Geography alum’s book examines how the fate of the Netherlands, Great Britain and the United States as economic and political powers has been deeply intertwined with their ability to project power via the seas