Associate Professor
Columbine 2022
719.255.4097
cholder@uccs.edu
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curriculum vitae

Education:

• PhD, Geography, Clark University, 2000
• MA, Geography, University of Georgia, 1992
• BA, Geography, Clark University, 1988

Research Interests:

• Forest Hydrology
• Climate
• Human-Environment Interactions
• Biogeography
• Latin America

Research Projects:

• Significance of leaf water repellency in forest hydrology models
• Influence of land use changes on rainfall partitioning and fog interception in a tropical montane cloud forest in Guatemala
• Transnational migration, remittances, and decentralization of forest management in municipal-communal forests in Guatemala
• Leaf traits and leaf optical properties of common species in Colorado and Guatemala

Courses Taught:

• Environmental Systems: Climate and Vegetation
• Applied Hydrology
• Water Resources and Water Problems
• Topics in Water Resource Management
• Development of Geographic Thought
• History and Nature of Geography
• Synoptic Climatology
• Field Studies in Geography - Guatemala
• Geography of Climate Change
• Cultural and Political Ecology
• Nature and Society
• Practical Meteorology

Awards and Honors:

• Outstanding Graduate Teaching Award (1992) awarded by the University of Georgia
• Citizen Activist Award (1988) awarded by the Citizen Action Network, Worcester, MA

Selected Publications:

• Curtis D. Holder and Gregory Chase, 2012. The role of remittances and decentralization of forest management in the sustainability of a municipal-communal pine forest in eastern Guatemala. Environment, Development and Sustainability 14: 25-43.
• Curtis D. Holder, 2012. The relationship between leaf hydrophobicity, water droplet retention, and leaf angle of common species in a semi-arid region of the western United States. Agricultural and Forest Meteorology 152: 11-16.
• Curtis D. Holder, 2011. The relationship between leaf water repellency and leaf traits in three distinct biogeographical regions. Plant Ecology 212(11): 1913-1926.
• Curtis D. Holder, 2004. Rainfall interception and fog precipitation in a tropical montane cloud forest of Guatemala. Forest Ecology and Management 190(2/3): 373-384.
• Curtis D. Holder, 2003. Fog precipitation in a cloud forest of the Sierra de las Minas Biosphere Reserve, Guatemala. Hydrological Processes 17(10): 2001-2010.