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My time wandering the halls and climbing the central staircase of Guggenheim really was a long time ago – Class of 1994?!? Heck, that’s pre-internet! However, it doesn’t feel like a galaxy far, far away…I learned so much about so many things in such a short-but-immensely influential epoch during my...

My name is Tai Koester. I am a human-environment geographer and former community organizer currently based in Tucson, Arizona. I graduated with a Bachelors from the Department of Geography at ¶¶ÒõÂÃÐÐÉä-Boulder in 2019. I am a Masters student in the School of Geography, Development and Environment at the University of...

My name is Hannah Escareno and I received my BA in Geography in 2023. Today, I am a geospatial analyst by profession, while in my free time, I’m an avid rock climber and violist with an affinity for crochet, analog photography, and poodles! Growing up, playing viola music by composers...

Dr. Ronald (Ron) Edward Cossman (PhD, 2001) , died on Saturday, October 14, 2023, at Baptist Memorial Hospital-Memphis after a two-and-half week battle against pneumonia (caused by COVID and a subsequent routine trip to the dentist), and acute respiratory distress syndrome (ARDS). Ron's beloved wife, Dr. Shelley Keith, and mother-in-law,...

As mentioned at the top of the newsletter, if you have any updates, please let us know using our alumni update form or send an email with your information to the department . We would love to hear from you about how your career has progressed since attending ¶¶ÒõÂÃÐÐÉä. The...

My name is Molly Guiney , and I graduated in 2021 with a master’s degree specializing in fluvial geomorphology. Advised by Dr. Katherine Lininger , I studied how landscape disturbances, such as floods and fires, can influence the deposition of wood onto floodplains in the Colorado Front Range. My time...

Lucy Citrine While at ¶¶ÒõÂÃÐÐÉä, I had the opportunity to work with the Fluvial Geomorphology Research Group. My work with the group started in the summer of 2021 in Capitol Reef National Park, where I assisted with research on the influences of hydrogeomorphic processes on floodplain dynamics and vegetation along...

I've worked as a geography teacher in Denver Public Schools, a GIS Analyst with Fremont County CO, a development planner with a solar engineering & design firm in Boulder, and now am currently a Planner II with the Town of Lyons, CO. Lotsa geography afoot, certainly! My ¶¶ÒõÂÃÐÐÉä Boulder undergrad...

Remote Sensing instruments and maps After completing my MA in Geography with Mark Serreze, I went on to teach Physical Geography and ultimately Remote Sensing & Advanced Remote Sensing at the United States Military Academy at West Point from 2018-2021. Since my retirement from the Army in 2021, my family...

After graduating in May 2020 (class of COVID-19, woohoo! Just kidding...) it took me a while to figure out work. But two years later, I’m now in the second job where I’ve used my Geography skills in some form. For almost a year I worked at a local news outlet,...