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In recent decades, large high-severity wildfires have occurred across a diverse set of forest types and climatic settings in the western US. In forests where fire suppression has led to widespread fuel accumulation, dynamic and up to date maps of forest structure and fuel conditions could support efforts to scale fuel management activities to reduce fire severity and delay climate-driven type conversion...
“With increasing national attention on changes in the Arctic, including Greenland, and the associated economic, geopolitical, and strategic implications, it is critical that we maintain our ability to monitor and understand conditions on the ground,”Ěýsaid Mark Serreze, Distinguished Professor of Geography and Director of the National Snow and Ice Data Center in the Cooperative Institute for Research in Environmental Sciences at the University of Colorado Boulder.
Habitat or landscape fragmentation is a major challenge for biodiversity conservation, yet current understandings focus primarily on its ecological dimensions, overlooking the fact that fragmentation is equally political...
“A lot of what we care about in neighborhood and health research is how people actually interact with the people and places around them—and that’s really hard to get at when someone’s just sitting across from you describing it after the fact,” Sagehorn says.
The team is developing new approaches that combine artificial intelligence with knowledge of physical processes to better understand complex phenomena across Earth and society. By bringing together multiple types of data and expertise, the researchers aim to make geospatial AI more useful, accurate and trustworthy for scientific discovery.
Wildfires frequently occur across the western United States, and while the fires themselves pose immediate dangers, they often trigger a cascade of subsequent hazards—including postfire debris flows, landslides, rockfall, and flooding—that threaten both lives and vital infrastructure. In this presentation...
“For the first time, we were able to measure how quickly the river cut into the ice shelf to form the estuary, which revealed more complex estuary behavior than was previously suggested,” said Michela Savignano, Âé¶ą´«Ă˝ Geography and CIRES PhD student and lead author of the study.
"They're typically physically accessible, relatively low-cost, low-pressure hub/hangouts, socially welcoming to a diversity of folks, and multigenerational – all key 'third place' attributes,' said Jessica Finlay, an assistant professor of geography at the University of Colorado Boulder.
ĚýSpeakers:ĚýDr. Sean Burns (Geography)ĚýMy research goal is to improve our understanding of the meteorological factors and conditions that control the exchange of energy and gases between the surface and atmosphere in complex
Congratulations to Assistant Professor of Geography and Institute of Behavioral Science Faculty Fellow, Dr. Jessica Finlay for receiving $3.7 million grant from the National Institute of Health (NIH) National Institute on Aging