Dr. Hamerlinck awarderd 2020-2021 Teaching Award

Congratulations to Dr. Gabriela Hamerlinck for winning a 2020-2021 College Teaching Award from the College of Liberal Arts & Sciences! Well done, Gaby! #GatorsWearMasks

Job Announcement: Assistant Professor in Atmospheric and Climate Science (AI)

The Department of Geography at the University of Florida, College of Liberal Arts and Sciences, invites applications for two (2) full-time, nine-month, tenure-accruing positions, at the level of Assistant Professor to begin August 16, 2021. The department seeks candidates with expertise in Artificial Intelligence (AI) to study Atmospheric and Climate Science (meteorology, weather forecasting […]

Geography Colloquium: Mapping for nomads: using GIS for herders in the West African Sahel

Speaker: Alex Orenstein Data Scientist, ORENSTEIN GIS Thursday, January 21, 2021 2:50-3:50 PM (Period 8) Turlington Hall 3018 and Zoom, livestreamed on YouTube University of Florida All are welcome to attend. Alex is a GIS specialist based in Senegal. His focus is on using satellite data to track drought and its impact on pastoralist communities, particularly […]

Meet the Geographer: Mohammad Mehedy Hassan

Mohammad Mehedy Hassan Pronouns: he/him University of Florida Adviser: Dr. Jane Southworth Focus Area: GeoSpatial Analysis & Techniques Earth System Science Research Statement: I am a geospatial scientist with an interest in the use of remote sensing (RS) and geospatial techniques analyses to better understand the complex socioecological process of landscape transformation, vegetation-climate change interactions, […]

Job opportunity – Hyflex classroom assistants

We have immediate openings for HyFlex classroom assistants to help out in the 3 Geography Classrooms – TUR 3018, 3006, 3012. The positions pay $10 per hour. To be considered please send the following items to Crystal Hatch by Sunday (! we need folks in asap!). So please email Crystal Crystal Hatch and cc Dr. […]

Alumni Adventures: Dr. Hannah Herrero

Dr. Hannah Victoria Herrero – Assistant Professor, Department of Geography, University of Tennessee When did you attend UF? What degrees/certificates did you earn in the Department of Geography?I attended UF from 2010-2013 (Bachelor’s in Geography with Environmental Geosciences), 2013-2015 (M.S.), and 2015-2019 (Ph.D. with a graduate certificate in Digital Geography and GIS) What is your greatest memory from your […]

GEO2420 Introduction to Human Geography

GEO 2420 Introduction to Human Geography In person: HG24(22573), Online: HGDL(26084) Relations between human and non-human worlds have changed over time to produce effects everywhere, like the ongoing pandemic. Human Geography provides an analytical lens to critically examine how and why such changes and effects occur across continents, seas and islands. The course focuses on […]

Dr. Yujie Hu joins ASCE T&DI Technical Committee On Artificial Intelligence

Dr. Yujie Hu has joined the Transportation & Development Institute Technical Committee on Artificial Intelligence of the American Society of Civil Engineers as an Associate Member.

Alumni Adventures: Dr. Yang Yang

Dr. Yang Yang, Associate Professor at Temple University he/him/his When did you attend UF? What degrees/certificates did you earn the the Department of Geography? I came to the PhD program in 2009 and finished in 2013 What is your greatest memory from your time as a GeoGator? Every time I traveled to AAG and SEDAAG […]

How Climate Change Is Ushering in a New Pandemic Era

Medical Geographer Dr. Sadie Ryan‘s work was recently discussed in How Climate Change Is Ushering in a New Pandemic Era: A warming world is expanding the range of deadly diseases and risking an explosion of new zoonotic pathogens from the likes of bats, mosquitoes, and ticks by Jeff Goodell in Rolling Stone magazine: “A recent […]

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