The weekend’s Florida Society of Geographer’s Annual meeting in Jacksonville, FL turned out great for UF Geography: out of six available student prizes the department won three!
These are our winners:
Best Graduate Presentation Award, 1st place:
David Keellings: Investing Teleconnection Drivers of Bivariate Heat Wave in Florida using Extreme Value Analysis
Honorable Mention Presentation:
Hannah Herrero: Using Random Forest Classification to Improve Savanna Landscape Analysis: A Case Study of Chobe National Park, Botswana from 1900 to 2009
Honorable mention poster:
Joseph Andreoli: Predicting the Geographic Ranges of Non-Native Cichlids in Florida with Climate Change
Prof. Peter Waylen was also honored with a plaque in appreciation of his long-term service to the Florida Society of Geographers.