Tom Veblen
The Department of Geography is very proud to announce Professor of Geography Tom Veblen has been named a University of Colorado Distinguished Professor by the Board of Regents. University of Colorado- "Encompassing South American wildfires, Arctic sea-ice retreat, post-Soviet politics, climate change in Tibet and GIS, ¶¶Òõ¶ÌÊÓƵ Boulder geographers keep their fingers on the pulse of a changing world"A new article titled "This is not your junior-high
- The Distinguished Research Lectureship is among the highest honors bestowed by the faculty upon a faculty member at ¶¶Òõ¶ÌÊÓƵ-Boulder. The lectureship honors a tenured faculty member widely recognized for a distinguished body of academic or
- Western U.S. forests killed by the mountain pine beetle epidemic are no more at risk to burn than healthy Western forests, according to new findings by the University of Colorado Boulder that fly in the face of both public perception and policy.The
- A new study that included researchers at the University of Colorado asserts that despite the series of damaging forest fires across the state in the past decade, they don't represent a dramatic departure from the historical norm.The area of the
- A new University of Colorado Boulder study indicates drought high in the northern Colorado mountains is the primary trigger of a massive spruce beetle outbreak that is tied to long-term changes in sea-surface temperatures from the Northern Atlantic
- Monica T. Rother and Thomas T. Veblen receive a Colorado Mountain Club Foundation Fellowship
- Results of a new study show that episodes of reduced precipitation in the Southern Rocky Mountains, especially during the 2001-2002 drought, greatly accelerated a rise in numbers of mountain pine beetles. The overabundance is a threat to regional
- Whizzing along the I-70 corridor into the Rocky Mountains, it's hard not to notice widespread patches of dry, dead, red trees dispersed throughout the steep green hillsides. Whether they are ponderosa pines or lodgepole pines, many of these trees
- A study by Andres Holz and Tom Veblen indicates a major climate oscillation in the Southern Hemisphere that is expected to intensify in the coming decades will likely cause increased wildfire activity in much of the southern half of South America.