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Colleen Reid: Wildfire smoke’s health risks can linger in homes that escape burning − as Colorado’s Marshall Fire survivors discovered

Gabriela Rocha Sales — Mon, 06 Jan 2025 21:24:47 +0000

Colleen Reid: Wildfire smoke’s health risks can linger in homes that escape burning − as Colorado’s Marshall Fire survivors discovered Gabriela Rocha Sales Mon, 01/06/2025 - 14:24

On Dec. 30, 2021, a wind-driven wildfire raced through two communities just outside ��«��Ƶ, Colorado. In the span of about eight hours, more than 1,000 homes and businesses burned.

The fire left entire blocks in ash, but among them, pockets of houses survived, seemingly untouched. The owners of these homes may have felt relief at first. But fire damage can be deceiving, as many soon discovered.

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Kate Little Receives the Injury and Violence Prevention Student Research Award from the Colorado School of Public Health

Gabriela Rocha Sales — Fri, 03 Jan 2025 21:53:25 +0000

Kate Little Receives the Injury and Violence Prevention Student Research Award from the Colorado School of Public Health Gabriela Rocha Sales Fri, 01/03/2025 - 14:53

Kate Little has received the Injury and Violence Prevention Student Research Award from the Colorado School of Public Health for her project Understanding Drivers of Firearm Access Among Colorado American Indian Youth: Opportunities for School-Level Prevention.

Project Background: American Indian and Alaska Native youth have a high risk for death by firearm suicide and tend to have quick access to firearms in Colorado. Firearm access is the most easily modifiable risk factor to prevent a firearm suicide death. The high lethality of firearms and short time window between suicide ideation and action require that researchers develop a nuanced understanding of the individual and ecological characteristics of youth with firearm access, as these factors may be directly associated with risk of death by firearm. Understanding how youth acquire firearms and who has access, and the characteristics their schools access can inform school-based firearm suicide prevention strategies.

Project Design: The research project will use multilevel modelling techniques to understand how individual and school-level characteristics that are associated with individual firearm access among Native American and Alaska Native High School Students in Colorado, and how those characteristics differ from students of other identities.

Kate is pursuing a Master's degree in Geography at the ��«��Ƶ and is a Research Analyst at the Injury and Violence Prevention Center. Her work uses GIS and statistical methods to better understand firearm harms among youth and adults and how they vary geographically. This award will support her work in investigating the contexts of the schools in which Indigenous Colorado youth gain access to firearms. She is passionate about effectively communicating research to the affected communities and hopes that this award will help prevent firearm injuries and deaths among Indigenous Colorado youth.

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Fall 2024 Commencement Photos

Gabriela Rocha Sales — Thu, 02 Jan 2025 16:34:13 +0000

Fall 2024 Commencement Photos Gabriela Rocha Sales Thu, 01/02/2025 - 09:34

Photos of our Fall 2024 Geography Commencement. Congratulations Department of Geography Fall 2024 Graduates! This article will link you to Flickr, where you can see and download pictures from ceremony.

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Fall 2024 Newsletter Published

Gabriela Rocha Sales — Wed, 18 Dec 2024 19:34:09 +0000

Fall 2024 Newsletter Published Gabriela Rocha Sales Wed, 12/18/2024 - 12:34

Thank you for reading our departmental newsletter. We publish newsletters at the end of the Fall and Spring semesters. 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 CU....

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From Theory to Action: Conservation through Reconciliation Partnership as Applied Political Ecology

Gabriela Rocha Sales — Mon, 11 Nov 2024 16:13:34 +0000

From Theory to Action: Conservation through Reconciliation Partnership as Applied Political Ecology Gabriela Rocha Sales Mon, 11/11/2024 - 09:13

Dr. Robin Roth
Professor of Geography
University of Guelph

Abstract:

The Conservation through Reconciliation Partnership is a Canada-wide network of Indigenous thought leaders, scholars, conservation organizations, Indigenous governments, and conservation practitioners united in their commitment to supporting the establishment of Indigenous Protected and Conserved Areas and the transformation of existing protected areas. This presentation will discuss the work of the partnership as applied political ecology. I will discuss how key tenants of political ecology - 1) power is relational and multi-scalar, 2) the social and natural are co-constituted, 3) accepted categories of modernity need to be destabilized, and 4) transformational change is needed- are activated in the work of the partnership and, by extension, the work of decolonizing conservation.

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Health Geographies of the Overlooked: Race, Data, and Disability

Anonymous — Tue, 29 Oct 2024 19:27:48 +0000

Health Geographies of the Overlooked: Race, Data, and Disability Anonymous (not verified) Tue, 10/29/2024 - 13:27

Dr. Aída Guhlincozzi
Assistant Professor of Geography
University of Missouri

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This presentation covers the recent work in health geography focused on vulnerable populations by Dr. Aída Guhlincozzi and colleagues. Specifically, this will cover the ongoing movement of the field in a direction of better encapsulating the needs of communities and populations previously overlooked and underserved by U.S. healthcare systems. This talk includes recently published results on Latina women’s healthcare access, discussions of race and ethnicity in the Latine community, and critical disability geography work regarding Autism and healthcare access. A key intervention recommended includes a brief discussion of the value of community geographic theoretical frameworks and methods.

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