Aerospace Professor Kristine Larson
Kristine Larson, CU Boulder professor at the听, has been awarded an honorary doctorate from the Chalmers University of Technology.
Located in Gothenburg, Sweden, Chalmers is known for its engineering education and research programs.
Larson is receiving the doctorate in recognition of her groundbreaking research using GPS signals to measure soil moisture, snow depth, vegetation听and sea level. Her work has contributed to improved hydrological studies, weather forecasting, climate models听and sea-level rise estimates鈥攈ighly relevant research听for global sustainable development.
Larson served as a visiting professor at Chalmers from听2010 to 2011, where she worked on the development of techniques to measure sea level with GNSS-signals, and听maintains an ongoing collaboration with researchers there. She has been an aerospace faculty member at CU Boulder since 1990.
