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Heide Bruckner /geography/ en Faculty News Spring 2021 /geography/2021/05/03/faculty-news-spring-2021 <span>Faculty News Spring 2021</span> <span><span>Anonymous (not verified)</span></span> <span><time datetime="2021-05-03T17:20:08-06:00" title="Monday, May 3, 2021 - 17:20">Mon, 05/03/2021 - 17:20</time> </span> <div> <div class="imageMediaStyle focal_image_wide"> <img loading="lazy" src="/geography/sites/default/files/styles/focal_image_wide/public/article-thumbnail/waleed_abdalati_congressional_tour_cires_pc0118.jpeg?h=dedba9c2&itok=t5nfo3vx" width="1200" height="800" alt="Man standing in front of projection screen speaking to people sitting at a table"> </div> </div> <div role="contentinfo" class="container ucb-article-categories" itemprop="about"> <span class="visually-hidden">Categories:</span> <div class="ucb-article-category-icon" aria-hidden="true"> <i class="fa-solid fa-folder-open"></i> </div> <a href="/geography/taxonomy/term/1071"> Newsletter </a> </div> <div role="contentinfo" class="container ucb-article-tags" itemprop="keywords"> <span class="visually-hidden">Tags:</span> <div class="ucb-article-tag-icon" aria-hidden="true"> <i class="fa-solid fa-tags"></i> </div> <a href="/geography/taxonomy/term/144" hreflang="en">Emily Yeh</a> <a href="/geography/taxonomy/term/1099" hreflang="en">Heide Bruckner</a> <a href="/geography/taxonomy/term/306" hreflang="en">Holly Barnard</a> <a href="/geography/taxonomy/term/136" hreflang="en">John O'Loughlin</a> <a href="/geography/taxonomy/term/1061" hreflang="en">Katherine Lininger</a> <a href="/geography/taxonomy/term/1103" hreflang="en">Morteza Karimzadeh</a> <a href="/geography/taxonomy/term/130" hreflang="en">Waleed Abdalati</a> <a href="/geography/taxonomy/term/1028" hreflang="en">Yaffa Truelove</a> </div> <div class="ucb-article-content ucb-striped-content"> <div class="container"> <div class="paragraph paragraph--type--article-content paragraph--view-mode--default 3"> <div class="ucb-article-text" itemprop="articleBody"> <div><h3><a href="/geography/node/1702" rel="nofollow">Waleed Abdalati </a>testified to Congress for the House Select Committee on the Climate Crisis. </h3><div class="image-caption image-caption-left"><p> </p><div class="imageMediaStyle medium_750px_50_display_size_"> <img loading="lazy" src="/geography/sites/default/files/styles/medium_750px_50_display_size_/public/article-image/waleed_abdalati_1.jpg?itok=3EzgENgw" width="750" height="1050" alt="Waleed Abdalati"> </div> <p>Waleed Abdalati</p></div> <p>On April 15, 2021, Professor Abdalati testified in a hearing held by the U.S. House of Representatives Select Committee on the Climate Crisis. The hearing was titled “Making the Case for Climate Action: The Growing Risks and Costs of Inaction.”</p><p>While Dr. Abdalati spoke to the underlying physical mechanisms of climate change, their current expressions, and future implications, other witnesses included the city manager for Tybee Island in Coastal Georgia, who talked about the challenges they face in confronting sea level rise; a lawyer from Mississippi, who spoke to the ethnic and racial inequities associated with climate change; and an economist, who spoke to the social costs of climate change. </p><p>Dr. Abdalati remarked, "hearing these different perspectives on climate change really drove home the geographic dimensions of climate change in a very powerful way, as well as the critical role that geography serves in meeting these challenges.”</p><p>Also see <a href="http://climatecrisis.house.gov/committee-activity/hearings/making-case-climate-action-growing-risks-and-costs-inaction" rel="nofollow">information about the hearing</a> and <a href="https://docs.house.gov/meetings/CN/CN00/20210415/111445/HHRG-117-CN00-Wstate-AbdalatiW-20210415.pdf" rel="nofollow">Dr. Abdalati's testimony</a></p><p> </p><hr><div class="image-caption image-caption-right"><p> </p><div class="imageMediaStyle medium_750px_50_display_size_"> <img loading="lazy" src="/geography/sites/default/files/styles/medium_750px_50_display_size_/public/article-image/holly_barnard_0_smaller.jpg?itok=Nqx7N-xe" width="750" height="825" alt="Holly Barnard"> </div> <p>Holly Barnard</p></div><h3><a href="/geography/node/1708" rel="nofollow">Holly Barnard</a> Awarded Boulder Faculty Excellence in Leadership & Service Award for 2020-2021</h3><p>Chosen from amongst many excellent nominees, Professor Holly Barnard was selected as a recipient of the BFA Faculty Excellence in Leadership and Service Award this year. </p><p>She was jointly nominated by the Department of Geography and the Institute of Arctic and Alpine Research (INSTAAR) for her leadership in advancing justice, equity, diversity and inclusion in both units, across the CU campus, and beyond. In addition, Professor Barnard has also taken on numerous leadership roles in the discipline, through the American Geophysical Union and through her past service as Lead Program Manager for the Hydrological Sciences Program at NSF. </p><p>Additionally, Dr. Barnard was also recently <a href="/geography/node/3163" rel="nofollow">honored for her efforts to promote diversity</a> by the Arts & Sciences Council of the College of A&S.</p><p> </p><hr><h3><a href="/geography/node/1720" rel="nofollow">Emily Yeh</a> Winner of the 2020-2021 Outstanding Faculty Mentor Award</h3><div class="image-caption image-caption-left"><p> </p><div class="imageMediaStyle medium_750px_50_display_size_"> <img loading="lazy" src="/geography/sites/default/files/styles/medium_750px_50_display_size_/public/article-image/emily_yeh_2.jpg?itok=VtizrKnN" width="750" height="750" alt="Emily Yeh"> </div> <p>Emily Yeh</p></div> Dr. Yeh was chosen as a winner of the Graduate School's 2020-2021 <a href="http://www.colorado.edu/graduateschool/2021/04/27/graduate-school-celebrates-faculty-selected-2021-outstanding-mentor-awards" rel="nofollow">Outstanding Faculty Mentor Award. </a> Her nomination dossier was full of praise for providing help and encouragement to her advisees.  She is well known for giving much of her time, energy, and intellect to support graduate students and the mission of graduate education.  <p> </p><hr><div class="image-caption image-caption-right"><p> </p><div class="imageMediaStyle medium_750px_50_display_size_"> <img loading="lazy" src="/geography/sites/default/files/styles/medium_750px_50_display_size_/public/article-image/yaffa_truelove