Colloquia
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
Jing Gao Assistant Professor of Geospatial Data Science Affiliated with the Department of Geography and the Data Science Institute University of DelawareAbstract:Over the 21st century global environmental change may pose critical challenges
Henry Lovejoy Assistant Professor, Department of History University of Colorado BoulderAbstract: While scholars have amassed large amounts of data related to the transatlantic slave trade, a more pressing question lingers: Where did those 12.7
Sharon Bywater-Reyes Department of Earth and Atmospheric Science University of Northern ColoradoAbstract: The strength of interactions between plants and river processes is dependent on plant traits such as stem density, plant frontal area, and
April 26 is the last colloquium of the semester. It features three different graduating PhD students doing short presentations of their theses.Spaces of Diaspora Policy by Aaron Malone This paper
Earth’s “critical zone”, the zone of the planet from treetops to base of groundwater, is critical because it is a sensitive region, open to impacts from human activities, while providing water necessary for human consumption
Colloquium is co-sponsored by the Center for Asian Studies40 years ago, upon announcing the “Reform and Opening-up” of China, the Communist Party called for “social forces” to “subsidize and fill gaps in state services”. This,
A vast literature establishes the importance of social capital to neighborhoods. Jane Jacobs famously argued that this capital is maintained through "cross-use of space," and James Coleman formalized it as the "closure" of
This colloquium discusses the air quality impacts of western U.S. wildfires and introduce the Western Wildfire Experiment for Cloud Chemistry, Aerosol Absorption and Nitrogen (WE-CAN). The WE-CAN project deployed the NCAR/NSF C
Lake Poopó was once Bolivia’s second-largest lake. Located at roughly 3700m in the semi-arid central Altiplano, shallow and saline Lake Poopó has long been recognized for its ecological importance and in 2002 was added to the