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Geography and Environmental Sciences Student Wins Poster Contest at GIS in the Rockies

Nov. 5, 2024

Jennifer Hathaway won the student poster contest at GIS in the Rockies ( http://gisintherockies.org/ ), a local conference for GIS professionals. The poster is part of her thesis work examining queer women spaces in the 1970s and today. For the map of 1970s, Hathaway used a 1956 zoning map, digitized...

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Studying Climate Change in the Alaska Tundra—and in a CU Denver Lab

Sept. 26, 2024

CU Denver News Featured Assistant Professor Katharine Kelsey, PhD, who leads a research project on how temperature change, flooding, and salinity can change ecosystems worldwide.

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CNN References Martin Lockley's Work in Article on Recent Study of Dinosaur Footprints

Aug. 30, 2024

A new study demonstrating that matching sets of dinosaur footprints were found on opposite sides of the Atlantic Ocean was published in tribute to Lockley, who devoted his career to studying dinosaur footprints.

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Amanda Weaver's Graduate Students from GES present at the Wheat Ridge City Council Test on video reads, "Wheat Ridge City Council Study Session, May 6, 2024"

Amanda Weaver's GES Graduate Students Present Research to Wheat Ridge City Council in Study Session

Six graduate students: Vaz Ganuschchak, Meghan Thompson, Pat Hall, Erika Jermé, Hannah Larsen, and Haorui Guo, completing their masters' degrees in Applied Geography and Geospatial Science presented their community project to the Wheat Ridge City Council. The project, Map-based Decision Support Tools for the 2J Initiative , focused on the...

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GES Students Publish Volume 3 of Confluence: a Student Journal of GES

Aug. 30, 2024

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Christy Briles' Pollinator Research Released by Governor and Department of Natural Resources

Jan. 27, 2024

Associate Professor of Geography and Environmental Studies, Christy Briles, along with several MS in Environmental Science students, participated in a Colorado Native Pollinating Insects study, which was released and publicized by Governor Polis and the Department of Natural Resources. Governor Jared Polis Press Release , Jan. 3

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Mandy Rees Interviewed Regarding the Geospatial Analysis & Mapping Lab

Dec. 1, 2023

Host Ean Thomas Tafoya interviews Mandy Rees, MA and Lecturer in Geoography and Environmental Sciences and Director of the Geospatial Analysis & Mapping Lab at the University of Colorado Denver, about the importance of maps in our society and how you can use maps to tell your own story. Mandy...

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Denver’s Zoning History Relates to Modern Affordability According to Mandy Rees

April 12, 2023

In Denver’s early days, there were few rules about what had to go where in the city. “You could be living right next door to a place that was vulcanizing tires, for example, or a smelter or where you're rendering fat from chickens or cows,” said Mandy Rees, a Lecturer...

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­Five Fridges Farm and Amanda Weaver Featured

Jan. 19, 2023

Regenerative agriculture is not just a topic in rural Colorado. It’s also the central focus of Geography and Environmental Sciences Senior Instructor Amanda Weaver’s 13-acre farm called Five Fridges, sandwiched between multi-family housing developments in the Denver metro area’s Wheat Ridge. An economic geographer by training, she now teaches classes...

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Kris Christensen Weighs in on Neighborhood Density and Place Attachment

Nov. 17, 2022

Geography and Environmental Sciences Instructor Kris Christensen said “we do need to densify our city” to address the housing shortage. But it can come at a cost, she added. the new, tall apartment buildings on Welton and Brighton might give newcomers a place to live, but they may not create...

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