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In the geographic tradition of Clyde Woods, this panel underscores the knowledge holders of Colorado, making visible the everyday ways in which our speakers transform places, landscapes, and futures into spaces of life affirming possibility. This panel will discuss Native ways of knowing Colorado, accountable relations with Native nations and peoples; immigrant dignity and practices of relational liberation; disability justice and the transformation of the built environment to affirm all life. The seeds for a liberatory world are already here.

Over the last decade, a growing number of North Indian cities have been declared “waterless,” referring to the temporary stoppage of piped water delivery for days or weeks on end...

See pictures taken from the Colorado Geographic Alliance Relaunch Party that took place on November 17th, 2025.

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

Why Be a Star When You Could Make a Constellation?” traces solidarities of radical placemaking across Black, Indigenous, Asian and Latine communities in Tacoma and beyond. I intervene in movement histories to decenter traditional hubs of radical action (New York, the Bay Area) and predominantly male charismatic leaders...

My name is Waleed Abdalati. I study ice from space, in particular the Greenland ice sheet and its contributions to sea level by using satellites to observe gains and losses in the mass of the ice. I have been deeply involved with NASA satellites...

Congratulations Department of Geography 2025 graduates! To view and download your photos, please see Spring 2025 Commencement photos.

Abby Hickcox, a teaching associate professor of geography and associate director of the Arts and Sciences Honors Program, has been named the 2025 Cogswell Award for Inspirational Instruction winner.

This award, made possible by an anonymous donor, is to be used to “support graduate student research.” To honor the donor’s wishes, the Department makes this award late in the Spring semester so that it can be used for conference travel through the end of Fall 2025.