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Geography Colloquium: Modifiable Spatiotemporal Unit Problems in Remote Sensing of Agriculture

Speaker: Dr. Brad Peter Assistant Professor Department of Geosciences University of Arkansas Thursday, March 9, 2023 3:00-3:50 PM (Period 8) Recorded for YouTube Turlington Hall 3018 and Zoom University of Florida Abstract: Measuring agricultural productivity is a multi-scale problem that requires multi-scale solutions. Understanding the when and where of crop productivity is vital to addressing changes […]

The NASA Lab

The NASA Lab centers around the science of remote sensing and land system science/land change science using Earth observations for interdisciplinary research focused on global environmental change and human-environment interactions. Dr. Southworth’s NASA lab consists of undergraduate, master’s students, doctoral students and post-docs. The lab is run by Dr. Jane Southworth, Professor and Chair of […]

Geography Colloquium: Western US Irrigation and its Implications for the Future of Agriculture

Speaker: Dr. Samuel Smidt Associate Professor Department of Soil, Water, and Ecosystem Sciences University of Florida Thursday, October 13, 2022 4:00-4:50 PM (Period 9) Recorded for YouTube Turlington Hall 3018 and Zoom University of Florida Abstract: The western US has dominated irrigated agriculture, but ongoing water availability issues have challenged the sustainability of these regions. Many […]

Global Economic and Diet Transitions Drive Latin American and Caribbean Forest Change during the First Decade of the Century: A Multi-Scale Analysis of Socioeconomic, Demographic, and Environmental Drivers of Local Forest Cover Change

RYAN – Global Economic and Diet Transitions Drive Latin American and Caribbean Forest Change during the First Decade of the Century: A Multi-Scale Analysis of Socioeconomic, Demographic, and Environmental Drivers of Local Forest Cover Change David Lopez-Carr, Sadie J Ryan, Matthew L Clark Article first published online: 21 Jan 2022 DOI: https://doi.org/10.3390/land11030326 ABSTRACT: Latin America and the Caribbean […]

Environmental change in Ethiopia: Evaluating trends in socio-ecological systems through geospatial analysis

Carly Muir PhD Student Department of Geography University of Florida Thursday, February 10, 2022 2:50-3:50 PM (Period 8) Livestreamed on YouTube Turlington Hall 3018 and Zoom University of Florida Abstract: Environmental change poses a myriad of challenges to the global population. Fortunately, the employment of geospatial information has enhanced our knowledge of environmental change and equips […]

Announcing The Navi-Gator, Issue 2!

  University of Florida Department of Geography The Navi-Gator OCTOBER 2019, ISSUE 2 So many new and exciting things have happened… Check out our amazing new grad lab in 1215! Come visit us in the geography office– lounge around in reclining chairs and grab some new GeoGator merch. We have T-shirts and sweatshirts for sale, […]

Forest conservation: Remember Gran Chaco

NOSS – Forest conservation: Remember Gran Chaco Tobias Kuemmerle, Mariana Altrichter, Germán Baldi, Marcel Cabido, Micaela Camino, Erika Cuellar, Rosa Leny Cuellar, Julieta Decarre, Sandra Díaz, Ignacio Gasparri, Gregorio Gavier-Pizarro, Rubén Ginzburg, Anthony J. Giordano, H. Ricardo Grau, Esteban Jobbágy, Gerardo Leynaud, Leandro Macchi, Matias Mastrangelo, Silvia D. Matteucci, Andrew Noss, José Paruelo, Maria Piquer-Rodríguez, Alfredo […]

University of Florida and University of Michigan awarded funding to study “land-grab” impacts

The Dynamics of Coupled Natural and Human Systems (CNH) program of the National Science Foundation (NSF) has awarded a grant of $1.6 million to  study the impacts of land transactions and investments on agricultural production, ecosystem services, and food-energy security in Ethiopia. Dr. Jane Southworth, chair of the Department of Geography at the University of […]

Smallholders, Agrarian Reform, and Globalization in the Brazilian Amazon: Cattle versus the Environment

SIMMONS, WALKER – Smallholders, Agrarian Reform, and Globalization in the Brazilian Amazon: Cattle versus the Environment Ritaumaria Pereira, Cynthia S. Simmons, and Robert Walker Article first published online: 7 JUL 2016 Land DOI: 10.3390/land5030024 ABSTRACT: Smallholder farming in the Brazilian Amazon has changed markedly over the last few decades, following a pervasive swing to cattle production observed […]

Redefining the Australian Anthrax Belt: Modeling the Ecological Niche and Predicting the Geographic Distribution of Bacillus anthracis

BARRO, BLACKBURN – Redefining the Australian Anthrax Belt: Modeling the Ecological Niche and Predicting the Geographic Distribution of Bacillus anthracis Alassane S. Barro, Mark Fegan , Barbara Moloney, Kelly Porter, Janine Muller, Simone Warner, Jason K. Blackburn Article first published online: 09 JUN 2016 PLoS Neglected Tropical Diseases DOI: 10.1371/journal.pntd.0004689 ABSTRACT: The ecology and distribution of B. […]