Colorado State University

The Natural Resources, Civil Engineering, Crop and Soil Sciences, Landscape Architecture, and Anthropology Departments all offer courses with GIS applications.

Click here to find out more detailed information about GIS at Geospatial Centroid @ CSU.

Partnerships - Resources - Technology: CSU manages the ESRI state license and has multiple labs with GIS software.

Developing Geospatial Central for on campus activities and coordination of GIS activities across the state.

GIS Offered

Courses

Minor

Advanced degree - Plan C spatial technologies concentration

Contact Interests and Information

Melinda Laituri

Interests: How GIS is used for Research, developing cultural data layers for GIS natural resource issues, and Watershed management.

Email Address: melinda.laituri@colostate.edu

David Theobald

Interests: Patterns of landscape change and their effects on wildlife habitat and biodiversity, especially in the Rocky Mountain west. He has worked with a variety of publics and decision makers around conservation planning issues. Recent research projects include examining the consequences and timing of urbanization on critical wildlife habitat resources, modeling landscape connectivity using graph theory and networks, and coupling of terrestrial, freshwater, and human ecosystems.

Email: davet@warnercnr.colostate.edu

Jim Graham

Interests: Biological data informatics and exchange, Biogeographical modeling, design of GIS systems. Plus collecting, integrating, managing, and disseminating biological field data and information technology for ecological modeling.

Email: jim@nrel.colostate.edu

Steven Leisz

Interests: Land use / land cover change and farming system change in Southeast Asia, West Africa, and Madagascar. Plus land tenure research and remote sensing in support of archaeological research.

Email: steve.leisz@colostate.edu

Jason Sibold

Interests: GIS and spatial analysis in his biogeography research. Specifically, using GIS to investigate the interactions among forest disturbances such as fires and insect outbreaks with the physical environment and patterns of human land use.

Email: jason.sibold@colostate.edu