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A 21st Century Agenda in Support of Amazonian Conservation

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Associate Professor Dr. Cynthia Simmons and a team of international scholars – including UF Geography’s Dr. Robert Walker, Mike Waylen, and Aghane Antunes – present a strategy for achieving sustainable development in Amazonia, given global climate change and the massive infrastructure program planned for the region, in their latest paper Science in support of Amazonian […]

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Spatial pattern analysis of manufacturing industries in Keraniganj, Dhaka, Bangladesh

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ALENEZI, GOOD,  MEHEDY – Spatial pattern analysis of manufacturing industries in Keraniganj, Dhaka, Bangladesh Mohammad Mehedy Hassan, Meshari S. Alenezi, Ryan Z. Good Article first published online: 01 JAN 2019 GeoJournal DOI: 10.1007/s10708-018-9961-5 ABSTRACT: Understanding industrial clustering and its patterns of development are important steps in linking regional policy development, strategic decision making, business site […]

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Discipline and Develop: Destruction of the Brazil Nut Forest in the Lower Amazon Basin

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ANTUNES, SIMMONS, WALKER, WAYLEN – Discipline and Develop: Destruction of the Brazil Nut Forest in the Lower Amazon Basin Cynthia S. Simmons, Robert Walker, Stephen Aldrich, Eugenio Arima, Ritaumaria Pereira, Edna Maria Ramos de Castro, Fernando Michelotti, Michael Waylen, & Aghane Antunes Article first published online: 20 DEC 2018 The Annals of the American Association […]

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Predicting monthly streamflows and their variability from limited historic records in the Tárcoles watershed, Costa Rica

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CAPPS – Predicting monthly streamflows and their variability from limited historic records in the Tárcoles watershed, Costa Rica Holli Nicole Capps Article first published online: 01 NOV 2018 Journal of Undergraduate Research DOI: 10.32473/uf%20jur.v20i1.106980 ABSTRACT: Lack of instrumentation in many developing nations makes it difficult to gauge available water resources, an essential part of national […]

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

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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 […]

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

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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 […]

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Fourth National Climate Assessment (NCA)

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GLASS, MULLENS – Fourth National Climate Assessment (NCA) Article first published online: NOV 2018 Fourth National Climate Assessment (NCA) ABSTRACT: These Summary Findings represent a high-level synthesis of the material in the underlying report. The findings consolidate Key Messages and supporting evidence from 16 national-level topic chapters, 10 regional chapters, and 2 chapters that focus […]

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