GAINESVILLE, Florida — Dr. Sadie Ryan (Assistant Professor of Medical Geography in the Department of Geography and UF’s Emerging Pathogen Institute) and colleagues, have just received a National Science Foundation (NSF) Division of Environmental Biology’s Ecology and Evolution of Infectious Diseases (EEID) Program rapid response, or RAPID grant to study the socio-ecology and climate responses of Zika virus transmission […]
BLACKBURN, MORRIS – Predicting Disease Risk, Identifying Stakeholders, and Informing Control Strategies: A Case Study of Anthrax in Montana Lillian R. Morris, Jason K. Blackburn Article first published online: 11 MAY 2016 EcoHealth DOI: 10.1007/s10393-016-1119-7 ABSTRACT: Infectious diseases that affect wildlife and livestock are challenging to manage and can lead to large-scale die-offs, economic losses, and threats to […]
ENGSTROM, HAQUE, KEELLINGS – Fatal landslides in Europe Ubydul Haque, Philipp Blum, Paula F. da Silva, Peter Andersen, Jürgen Pilz, Sergey R. Chalov, Jean-Philippe Malet, Mateja Jemec Auflic, Norina Andres, Eleftheria Poyiadji, Pedro C. Lamas, Wenyi Zhang, Igor Peshevski, Halldór G. Pétursson, Tayfun Kurt, Nikolai Dobrev, Juan Carlos García-Davalillo, Matina Halkia, Stefano Ferri, George Gaprindashvili, Johanna […]
The Geography Department is proud to announce a new Bachelor’s track (BA or BS) in Medical Geography in Global Health (MGGH). In addition to coursework in Medical Geography, the Bachelor’s in MGGH will include coursework in Geographic Information Systems (GIS), Quantitative Analysis, Physical Geography, Social Geography, Regional Geography, and electives including Extreme Weather, Extreme Floods, Human Footprint […]
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We are proud to announce our latest PhD graduates – Dr. José Javier Hernández Ayala, Dr. Lillian Morris, and Dr. Stephanie Zick! Dr. Zick will join the Department of Geography at Virginia Tech as an Assistant Professor of Geographic Meteorology. She looks forward to diversifying the program with her tropical meteorology and numerical weather prediction expertise. Dr, Morris […]
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KEATINGE – Assessing air temperature trends in Mesoamerica and their implications for the future of horticulture J.D.H. Keatinge, P. Imbach, D.R. Ledesma, J. d’A. Hughes, F.J.D. Keatinge, J. Nienhuis, P. Hanson, A.W Ebert and S. Kumar Article first published online: 25 APR 2016 European Journal of Horticultural Science DOI: 10.17660/eJHS.2016/81.2.1 ABSTRACT: Average air temperature variation in the […]
BLACKBURN – Spatiotemporal Clustering of Mycobacterium tuberculosis Complex Genotypes in Florida: Genetic Diversity Segregated by Country of Birth Marie Nancy Séraphin, Michael Lauzardo, Richard T. Doggett, Jose Zabala, J. Glenn Morris Jr., Jason K. Blackburn Article first published online: 19 APR 2016 PLoS ONE DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0153575 ABSTRACT: Background Tuberculosis (TB) is caused by members of the Mycobacterium […]
MATYAS, TANG, ZICK – Using shape metrics to compare observed and simulated reflectivity during the landfall of Hurricane Isabel (2003) Corene J. Matyas, Stephanie Zick, and Jingyin Tang Conference paper presented: April 2016 at the American Meteorological Society‘s 32nd Conference on Hurricanes and Tropical Meteorology ABSTRACT: Measuring changes in the spatial attributes of precipitating regions within tropical cyclones […]
Three Geography graduate students recently gave presentations at the 11th Annual Conference of the Social Sciences, hosted by the Florida Society of the Social Sciences. Mr. David Hanson presented a paper titled “Exploring the Livelihood Vulnerability of Grenadian Households in a Peri-Urban Community” in Session III – The Human Factor: Nature and Environment. Mr. Ryan Good presented a paper […]
Over Spring Break, Geography doctoral student Mr. Ryan Good traveled to Haiti with a group from the Warrington College of Business on a consulting program called “Entrepreneurship and Empowerment in Haiti.” While there, the visiting Gators were featured in a story in the Haitian newspaper Le National (English translation).