Tag: Geography
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Petersen-Perlman Brings Flood of Water Interests as New Geography Faculty
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Read More: Petersen-Perlman Brings Flood of Water Interests as New Geography FacultyPetersen-Perlman Brings Flood of Water Interests as New Geography Faculty Josh Zaffos September 2, 2025 Anyone who has studied and worked on water topics knows the adage, “Whiskey is for drinking, water is for…fighting.” Assistant Professor of Geography Jacob Petersen-Perlman who studies water conflict can’t argue that water is at…
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From Myth Maps to the Metaverse: Geography Professor Merrill Johnson Retires
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Read More: From Myth Maps to the Metaverse: Geography Professor Merrill Johnson RetiresFrom Myth Maps to the Metaverse: Geography Professor Merrill Johnson Retires December 2024 By Josh Zaffos After an exceptional forty-year-plus career of service and leadership in higher education, Colorado State University Professor of Geography Merrill Johnson is retiring. Johnson, a professor and administrator at CSU since 2015, has been among…
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Guatemala climate scientists look to tree rings for answers at CSU
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Read More: Guatemala climate scientists look to tree rings for answers at CSUGuatemala climate scientists look to tree rings for answers at CSU Joshua Zaffos This October, four researchers and technical scientists from INSIVUMEH Guatemala, the country’s meteorological service, spent a week in the Colorado State University Biogeography Lab counting the rings from cored samples of Caribbean pine trees through the lenses…
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Leisz Wins Fulbright and Bound for Vietnam
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Read More: Leisz Wins Fulbright and Bound for VietnamLeisz Wins Fulbright and Bound for Vietnam Joshua Zaffos Stephen Leisz first arrived in Hanoi, Vietnam, in 1997 to help map land uses and land-cover in the country’s mountainous areas and to train others to monitor environmental changes. Hanoi’s first traffic lights, new skyscrapers, and steady population growth of the…
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Opportunity beckons Geography student to London School of Economics
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Read More: Opportunity beckons Geography student to London School of EconomicsOpportunity beckons Geography student to London School of Economics Joshua Zaffos Additional content by Becca Lee-Simpson Justin Smith was touring London during a post-high-school gap year when he stumbled upon his future. After wandering the famed West End District, Smith found himself gazing at the iconic arch-framed entrance of the…
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Mapping People and the Environment
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Read More: Mapping People and the EnvironmentAs seen in the College of Liberal Arts Magazine | Winter 2020/ Spring 2021 Mapping People and the Environment Joshua Zaffos As the COVID-19 pandemic began unfolding in the United States last February, Zoe Schutte and other geography students at Colorado State University found themselves taking a different sort of Coronavirus test. “We…
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Geographer and climatologist Diego Pons joins department faculty
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Read More: Geographer and climatologist Diego Pons joins department facultyGeographer and climatologist Diego Pons joins department faculty Joshua Zaffos This fall, Diego Pons, Ph.D, joins the Department of Anthropology and Geography at Colorado State University as our newest Assistant Professor of Geography. Pons is an applied climatologist with a background in biology and paleoclimatology who graduated from the University…
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Wildfires, climate change and population growth
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Read More: Wildfires, climate change and population growthWildfires have been raging across the nation again this summer. In Washington, Oregon and Montana. But fires alone aren’t the only concern this year. The 2012 Waldo Canyon fire that destroyed more than 346 homes and was logged as one of the most destructive in Colorado history has had long-lasting…
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An area long-rumored to contain the ‘mythical White City’ being explored
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Read More: An area long-rumored to contain the ‘mythical White City’ being exploredSome of the most inhospitable land in the world is found in Nicaragua. Home of the most poisonous snakes on the planet, deadliest spiders and angry, stinging plants. It also happens to be home to an ancient city, known to many as la Ciudad Blanca, or the White City.…