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Dr. Matyas Receives Teaching Award from SEDAAG

Dr. Corene Matyas received the award for Excellence in Teaching at the 2019 annual meeting of the Southeastern Division of the American Association of Geographers. This award acknowledges sustained excellence and creativity in the college classroom. Winners meet the following criteria: (1) Exceptional commitment to effective geography teaching; (2) Record of efforts to help diffuse […]

Geography Grad student receives best PhD paper at the 2018 SEDAAG annual meeting!

Second-year PhD student Stephanie Mundis of the Quantitative Disease Ecology & Conservation Lab, advised by Dr. Sadie Ryan, was recognized for her paper and presentation at the 2018 SouthEastern Division of the American Association of Geographers. Her presentation, “Spatial analysis of pyrethroid resistance genotypes in Aedes aegypti mosquitoes in Florida,” focused on spatial patterns in […]

Geography Undergrad receives best undergraduate poster at the 2018 SEDAAG annual meeting!

Geography major Sarah VanSchoick received the honor of best undergraduate poster at the 2018 SEDAAG annual meeting on November 19. Her research involved a geospatial analysis of rain rates produced by 38 tropical cyclones that affected Madagascar and Mozambique since 1998. She found that storms originating over the Southwest Indian Ocean had larger rainfall extents […]

Geography Colloquium: Doctoral Students’ SEDAAG Preview

SEDAAG Preview Presentations Geography Colloquium Livelihood Vulnerability Index in Grenada Speaker: Mr. David Hanson Graduate Student, Geography Spatial-Temporal Analysis of Mauritia Palm Swamp Degradation Speaker: Mr. Tyler Rundel Graduate Student, Geography Thursday, November 5, 2015 3:00-3:50 PM (Period 8) Turlington Hall Room 3012 University of Florida All are welcome to attend.