Professor
Columbine 1031
719.255.3790
thuber@uccs.edu
curriculum vitae

Education:

• PhD, Geography, University of Colorado, Boulder, 1980
• MA, Geography, Syracuse University, 1976
• BS, Geography, USAF Academy, 1969

Research Interests:

• Colorado Geography
• Mountain Geomorphology/Soils
• Remote Sensing for Resource Management

Research Projects:

• Currently most of my time is writing a book (An American Provence) comparing the North Fork Valley of the Gunnison River in Colorado with the Vaucluse in southern France.

Courses Taught:

• Statistical Analysis in Geography
• Writing Place
• Mountain Environments
• Geography of Colorado
• Soils
• Intro to Remote Sensing
• Image Processing
• Map and Compass
• Geomorphology

Awards and Honors:

• 2012 University of Colorado, Thomas Jefferson faculty award winner
• 2010 Winner of Individual Community Greenie Award from Veda (w/ Carole Huber)
• 2009 UCCS Campus Sustainability Award (w/ Carole Huber)
• UCCS Teacher of the Year
• University of Colorado President’s Teaching Scholar
• Fulbright Fellowship

Selected Publications:

• An American Provence, University Press of Colorado, 2011
• Hayden's Landscapes Revisited, under review, University of Oklahoma Press, 2012

Outreach and Service:

• Board member - Rocky Mountain Field Institute
• Board member - Catamount Center for the Geography of the Southern Rockies
• Chair, Reappointment, Tenure, and Promotion Task Force (2007-2008)
• Member, University of Colorado President Search Committee (2005)
• Member, Heller property Oversight Committee