PAST GEOGRAPHY NEWS

Geography Lectures

The Department recently hosted Visiting Fulbright Scholar, Dr. Hue Le from the Center for Natural Resources and Environmental Studies of Vietnam’s National University. She presented a talk on Vietnam’s vulnerability to projected climate changes. The talk was focused on issues of vulnerability and adaptation.

 

Geography poster takes the win!

Recent Anthropology graduate, Katherine Carroll, presented her research project titled "Fort Collins: Interpreting a Landscape to Provide Further Insight on Socio-Economic Change at this year's Celebrate Undergraduate Research & Creativity Day in April. Carroll developed this project for Geography 480: Land Change Science and Remote Sensing. Read more

 

Geographers participate in SOGES "Managing the Planet Panel Series"

Dr. Stephen Leisz and Dr. Jason Sibold were panel members for the “Managing the Planet Panel Series” this spring. The series, which is organized by the School of Global Environmental Sustainability (SOGES), provides an opportunity for the general public to ask questions on prominent environmental issues and for scientists to engage with the general public to inform them of the results from their personal research. Read more

 

 

A Growing Geography Minor at CSU

The number of students interested in Geography at CSU continues to grow. Since the beginning of the spring semester, enrollment has risen to 18 Geography minors along with four students who are pursuing a Geography concentration within the Department. This is an increase from last semester of more than 10% in minors and a 100% increase in students pursuing a Geography concentration. Students who pursue a Geography minor at CSU are required to take Introduction to Geography, Physical Geography, Cultural Geography along with a mix of upper level Geography and technique courses that focus on GIS and Remote Sensing.

New courses in geography!

Geography continues to develop within the Department of Anthropology and this semester we are happy to report the addition of three new exciting upper-level courses!

Dr. Steve Leisz is offering a course on Land Change Science and Remote Sensing. This course will help students make critical connections

between the social and economic influences on land-use practices and the remote sensing tools and techniques to identify change.

Capstone award winners announced

Congratulations are in order to Sarah Millionig for Best Overall Presentation. Best Integration of the Subfields was awarded to Madeline Bergon, way to go! And last, but not least, the Best Use of Primary Data was awarded to Sara Kirkpatrick. Congratulations to our Best in Class!

All of our Capstone presenters did an incredible job and we thank you for your hard work. We wish you the best in your future and expect updates on all the wonderful work you are doing. Read more

Have you seen our GIS lab?

Stop by and check out what our geography students are working on. Did you know that we have a GIS lab complete with a plotter used for printing large scale map and poster projects, Arch GIS and remote sensing software such as ENVI, spatial statistics and much more. Stop by for a visit and say hi to any one of the friendly lab monitors while you're at it!

 

Geography travels, teaching and research

Stephen Leisz (Assistant Professor of Geography) is traveling to Vietnam and Papua New Guinea this summer. He and colleague Melinda Laituri (CNR) have been selected by the Hanoi University of Agriculture to organize and lead a remote sensing and GIS training course at the Hanoi University of Agriculture in Hanoi, Vietnam. Read More

 

Geography of Religion

The Anthropology Colloquium Series recently featured talks on religion by Dr. Elizabeth Olson, Senior Lecturer in Geosciences at the University of Edinburgh, Scotland who discussed theoretical views of religiosity from Weber, Marx and Gramsci.

 

Tsunami Research - Senior Anthropology undergraduate student Lindsey Ellgen presented her research project titled "American Samoa: Tsunami Vulnerability and Village Relocation" at this year's Celebrate Undergraduate Research & Creativity Day this past April.