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Abstract: Satellites provide the most consistent and reliable measurements of snow and ice globally with estimates of snow-covered area, grain size, and concentration of light-absorbing particles creating global potential to improve existing operational forecasts and enable forecasting of water supplies for regions with little to no in situ forecasting. A...

Four Geography graduate students will present a preview of the talks they will give at the American Association of Geographers (AAG) meeting: Kate Hale : Streamflow sensitivity to climate warming: A shift from snowfall to rainfall and changing surface water inputs Erika Schreiber : A Comprehensive Look at 40 Years...

John O’Loughlin Professor of Geography and Fellow, Institute of Behavioral Science Chair, CU-Boulder Standing Committee on Research Misconduct Greater attention to issues of research misconduct has been evident in universities, funding agencies and amongst the public. Like other research-intensive institutions, CU Boulder has clear guidelines about misconduct and procedures to...

Presentation by Kenneth Bauer, Anthropology, Dartmouth College Drawing upon fieldwork in western Nepal, the Tibet Autonomous Region, and the eastern Tibetan Plateau as well as historical and contemporary maps, I will argue that there is a recognizable but as yet underappreciated body of knowledge and traditions that comprise a Tibetan...

Anthropology Colloquium Series Co-Sponsored by the Department of Geography and the Department of History Presentation by Dr. Lee Dugatkin Hale 230, Nov 8, 4 PM Abstract: For the last six decades a dedicated team of researchers in Siberia has been domesticating silver foxes to replay the evolution of the dog...

Eric Perramond Environmental Science and Southwest Studies Professor, Colorado College Abstract In the American West, water adjudication lawsuits are adversarial, expensive, and lengthy. Unsettled Waters is the first detailed study of water adjudications in New Mexico. The state envisioned adjudication as a straightforward accounting of water rights as private property...

Virginia Iglesias Research Scientist Earth Lab Abstract Socio-environmental dynamics are driven by top-down changes in climate and bottom-up positive (destabilizing) and negative (stabilizing) biophysical feedbacks involving disturbance and biotic interactions. When positive feedbacks prevail, the resulting self-propagating changes can potentially shift the system into a new state, even in the...

Book presentation by Aaron Bobrow-Strain, Author and Professor of Politics at Whitman College. This event is co-sponsored by the Department of Geography, Latin American Studies Center, and the Department of Sociology. Book Title The Death and Life of Aida Hernandez: A Border Story (Published by Farrar, Straus, and Giroux on...

Max Boykoff Director, Center for Science and Technology Policy (CIRES) Associate Professor, Environmental Studies, University of Colorado Boulder. Abstract: Conversations about climate change at the science-policy interface and in our lives have remained stuck. The presentation based on a recently published book integrates lessons from social science and humanities research...

Jing Gao Assistant Professor of Geospatial Data Science Affiliated with the Department of Geography and the Data Science Institute University of Delaware Abstract: Over the 21st century global environmental change may pose critical challenges for societies across the world. To understand its potential impacts, global long-term spatial projections of societal...