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.

www.colorado.edu/ecee/explori... 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.

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 .

CU Geography Alumnus, MA 1992 and PhD 1995 www.colorado.edu/asmagazine/2...

Join us next Monday at noon for our IBS Flash Talks! Learn about current behavioral and #socialscience projects from our five research programs. This semester's flash talk topics include #immigration, #Indigenousrights, #publichealth, and #violenceprevention. ibs.colorado.edu/ibs-flash-ta...

We welcome Ellen Considine as a new CIRES Fellow! Previously a @CUBoulder undergrad, Considine returns to campus to study environmental health and data science. Read about her here:

C is for Cryosphere ❄️: Our polar scientists are on the front lines, researching Earth's frozen regions and how melting ice affects the entire planet. Follow us to learn more about our work and how we're making a difference! cires.colorado.edu/area-researc... #ciresabc

"The simple fact is that carbon dioxide is making the oceans more acidic, which carries harmful effects," said CIRES Director Waleed Abdalati in this AP story: Scientists give harsh grades to Trump administration work aimed at undoing a key climate finding.

Welcome to our 2025 Geography graduate students!

It's not too early to start considering how you might participate in #AAG2026! Registration is now open for the hybrid 2026 AAG Annual Meeting from March 17-21. We can't wait to see you in The Bay & online. Get your registration in by Sept. 4 to qualify for our early bird deadline: buff.ly/28A5f22

🌲 "Assessing the relationships among subalpine canopy structure, water availability, & carbon storage" Join us for Nic Tarasewicz's Wednesday evening talk at our Mountain Research Station: 🆓 Free event 🗓 Aug 13th 🕖 7:00 pm 📍 Near Nederland & Ward CO 🔗 calendar.colorado.edu/event/nic-ta...

🌱 Tropical alpine plants are feeling the heat! 🌡️ A 10-yr warming study in the Páramo shows plant traits shifting in complex ways, with community-level changes that could reshape ecosystem function. Tovar et al. study includes Sisimac Duchicela as a co-author doi.org/10.1098/rspb...

ESIIL team members recently visited the NSF headquarters in Washington, D.C. Read more about their visit and ESIIL director Dr. Jennifer Balch's talk, "From Ember to Exabyte: Wildfires are a Big Data Frontier" on our website: esiil.org/news-events/...

Last week, CIRES Director Waleed Abdalati testified before the Environment Subcommittee of the U.S. House Committee on Science, Space, and Technology on how innovative technologies can enhance weather forecasting and preparedness. @colorado.edu

Excited to see our new article out in Political Geography with Emily Hite and Jerry Jacka ‘updating’ the seminal works of Watts and Peluso in the era of low-carbon energy transitions. www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

"When you tear down a scientific enterprise, rebuilding it is not as simple as rehiring." — CIRES Director Waleed Abdalati discusses the impacts of cuts to NOAA with @axios.com Boulder. www.axios.com/local/boulde...

#NewBook alert! IBS Fellow/Faculty and Assistant Professor of #Geography at @cugeography.bsky.social, Jessica Finlay, co-authored The Microbiome Master Key with her father, B.Brett Finlay. Read more on the @bigthink.com: bigthink.com/books/microb... #microbiome #aging #germs

For our next #HumansOfCIRES, meet CIRES Fellow Katherine Siegel, an assistant professor of Geography at CU Boulder. Katherine studies wildfires, land use change, and ecological transformations — and she loves to go tidepooling. Read the full interview: cires.colorado.edu/spotlights/t...

Shelby Ross, who participated in the North Central Climate Adaptation Science Center's Tribal Climate Leaders Program, was named as part of the second cohort of the prestigious Elouise Cobell Dissertation Writing-Year Fellows. Congrats!! @cugeography.bsky.social‬ www.colorado.edu/graduatescho...

Congratulations to our Spring 2025 graduates! Pictures from the ceremony are now on our website.

Join us for the Geography Commencement Ceremony on Thursday, May 8th on the Norlin Quad just outside Guggenheim. We do not require RSVPs or Tickets. If you are not graduating this May but would like to be part of our ceremony and have your name printed on the program, please email staff.

Congratulations to all our award and scholarship winners, and certificate certificate recipients in Spring 2025! Thank you for coming out in the snow to celebrate with us.

Some pictures from our Spring Cross-cultural celebration. Thank you to all of you who celebrated with us!