Associate Professor
Coordinator, Colorado Geographic Alliance
Columbine 2017
719.255.4056
sjenning@uccs.edu

Education:

• PhD, Geography, University of California Davis, 1989
• MS, Geography, University of Utah, 1983
• BS, Geography, University of Utah, 1981

Research Interests:

• Biogeography
• Geography Education

Research Projects:

• Forest changes on Pikes Peak
• Methodologies and techniques in geography teaching

Courses Taught:

• GES 1010: Environmental Systems: Landforms and Soils
• GES 1050: Map and Compass
• GES 3050: Introduction to Cartography
• GES 4260: Biogeography
• GES 4270: Advanced Biogeography
• GES 4280: Plant Communities of the Western United States
• GES 4290: Plant Communities of Colorado

Awards and Honors:

• Appointed co-coordinator with Rebecca Theobald for the Colorado Geographic Alliance (COGA) by the Colorado Geographic Education Fund and the National Geographic Society Education Fund, 2008.
• Fulbright Grant to lecture at the University of Latvia, 2007.
• Distinguished Teaching Award from the Association of Former Students of Texas A&M, University College of Geosciences and Maritime Studies, 1996.

Selected Publications:

• 2008. Jennings, S.A. A reexamination of the origin of forest differences at a subalpine location in Colorado. Madrono 55: 303-305.
• 2006. Jennings, S.A. A content comparison of six physical geography textbooks spanning a century.International Research in Geographical and Environmental Education 26:1-14.
• 2003. Jennings, S.A. Unconsidered impacts of reforestation in the Pikes Peak region, Colorado. Papers of Applied Geography Conferences 26:399-407.
• 2003. Jennings, S.A. and T.P. Huber. Campus-based geographic learning, a field oriented teaching scenario, Journal of Geography 102: 185-192.
• 1996. Jennings, S.A. An evaluation of the influence of travel on the geographic knowledge of college students, International Research in Geographical and Environmental Education 5: 45-54.
• 1993. Jennings, S.A. and D.L. Elliott-Fisk. Packrat midden evidence of late Quaternary vegetation change in the White Mountains, California-Nevada, Quaternary Research 39: 214-221.

Outreach and Service:

• Coordinator, Colorado Geographic Alliance, 2008-Present
• Chair, Great Plains / Rocky Mountain Division of the Association of American Geographers, 1999-2000