Graduate Students

AY 2024-25

Javier Aju-Torres

PhD Program

Advisor: Diego Pons

Research Interests: Climate justice, Biogeography and Indigenous studies

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Uma Baysal

PhD Program

Advisor: Paul Sutton

Research Interests: A local composite index for the sustainability of human wellbeing: The case of Colorado

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Jecca Bowen

PhD Program

Advisor: Hanson Nyantakyi-Frimpong

Research Interests: Political ecologies of the Colorado livestock industry

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Robert Brown

MSGIS Program

Advisor: Steven Hick

Research interests: geographic information science

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Kristen Burgess

MSGIS Program

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Sarah Caldwell

PhD Program

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Namrata Chatterjee

PhD Program

Advisor: Paul Sutton

Research interests: Light pollution: An Earth observable proxy for UN's Sustainable Developmental Goals

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Christa Curtiss

MA Program

Advisor: Andrew Goetz

Research interests: Transit oriented development, gentrification, and displacement: An investigation of light-rail transit and neighborhood change in Denver, Colorado

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Marc DiPlacido

MSGIS Program

Advisor: Kristopher Kuzera

Research interests: geographic information science

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Colin Early

MSGIS Program

Advisor: Steven Hick

Research interests: geographic information science

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Julia Entwistle

PhD Program

Advisor: Hanson Nyantakyi-Frimpong

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Devin Escue

MSGIS Program

Advisor: Steven Hick

Research interests: geographic information science

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Maura Forde

MSGIS Program

Advisor: Steven Hick

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Unisha Ghimire

MSGIS Program

Advisor: Michael Daniels

Research interests: GIS, water resources, water-induced hazards

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Hanna Gilhooley

MSGIS Program

Advisor: Steven Hick

Research interests: geographic information science

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Erik Gilmore

MSGIS Program

Advisor: Steven Hick

Research interests: geographic information science

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Gina Girgente

MSGIS Program

Advisor: Jing Li

Research interests: GIS, physical geography, climatology, machine learning

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Joslyn Hays

MSGIS Program

Advisor: Hillary Hamann

Research interests: geographic information science and watershed geography

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Tara Hoelzer

MSGIS Program

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Ameila Horton

MSGIS Program

Advisor: Steven Hick

Research interests: urban geography and transportation

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Jake Hostnik

MSGIS Program

Advisor: Steven Hick

Research interests: geographic information science

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Jessica Howard Karr

MSGIS

Advisor: Steven Hick

Research interests: geographic information science

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Daniel Kincaid

MSGIS Program

Advisor: Steven Hick

Research interests: geographic information science

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Janessa Knotts

MSGIS Program

Advisor: Steven Hick

Research interests: geographic information science

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Bianca Kumar

MSGIS Program

Advisor: Steven Hick

Research interests: geographic information science

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David Lackajs

MSGIS Program

Advisor: Steven Hick

Research interests: geographic information science

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Lin Ma

MSGIS Program

Advisor: Paul Sutton

Research interests: geographic information science

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Brandon McAlister

MSGIS Program

Advisor: Steven Hick

Research interests: geographic information science

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Myawna Moore

MA Program

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Carson Nicola

MSGIS Program

Advisor: Andrew Goetz

Research interests: urban geography

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Elizabeth Nielsen

MSGIS Program

Advisor: Steven Hick

Research interests: geographic information science

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Andrews Ofosu

PhD Program

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Queen Olafadehan

MA Program

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Cheryl Orr

MSGIS Program

Advisor: Steven Hick

Research interests: geographic information science

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Kyle Robrock

MSGIS Program

Advisor: Steven Hick

Research interests: geographic information science

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Austin Rushinsky

MSGIS Program

Advisor: Hanson Nyantakyi-Frimpong

Research interests: geographic information science

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Georgia Schneider

MSGIS Program

Advisor: Steven Hick

Research interests: geographic information science

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Todd Stephenson

MSGIS Program

Advisor: Steven Hick

Research interests: geographic information science

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Brittney Szabo

MSGIS Program

Advisor: Steven Hick

Research interests: geographic information science

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Jesse Tenenbaum

PhD Program

Advisor: Matthew Taylor

Research interests: political ecology of Latin America

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Daniel Ulicny

MSGIS Program

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Alex Van De Water

MSGIS Program

Advisor: Hanson Nyantakyi-Frimpong

Research interests: geographic information science

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Jin Xu

PhD Program

Advisor: Guiming Zhang

Research interests: Effects of public health crisis on VGI contributor behavior:Case studies of COVID-19

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Stephanie Yamoah

MA Program

Advisor: Hanson Nyantakyi-Frimpong

Research interests: How well do nature-based solutions address gender?

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Xuefei Zhang

PhD Program

Advisor: Guiming Zhang

Research interests: geographic information science

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