Dr. Walker receives Sauer Distinguished Scholarship Award

Posted on January 4, 2022

Dr. Robert Walker has been selected by the Conference of Latin American Geography as the recipient of the 2021 Carl O. Sauer Distinguished Scholarship Award. This award is granted in recognition for a corpus of important published work or other significant contribution towards Latin American geography. Sauer Distinguished Scholars are leading authorities in specific research […]

Predictors of hurricane evacuation decisions: A meta-analysis

Posted on December 17, 2021

Shakhawat Tanim, Brenton Wiernik, Steven Reader, Yujie Hu Article first published online: 10 Dec 2021, Journal of Environmental Psychology DOI: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jenvp.2021.101742 Dr. Yujie Hu – Predictors of hurricane evacuation decisions: A meta-analysis ABSTRACT: We systematically review and meta-analyze quantitative prediction models for hurricane evacuation decisions. Drawing on data from 33 prediction models and 29,873 households, we estimate distributions […]

Geography Colloquium: Planning in an Era of Rapid Urbanization: The Case of Indonesia

Posted on November 30, 2021

Speaker: Dr. Chris Silver Professor Department of Urban and Regional Planning College of Design, Construction and Planning University of Florida Thursday, December 2, 2021 2:50-3:50 PM (Period 8) Turlington Hall 3018 and Zoom University of Florida Livestreamed on YouTube Biography: Christopher Silver is Professor of Urban and Regional Planning who joined the faculty at UF […]

Geography Colloquium: Riparian Woody Vegetation Regrowth on Point Bars in a Disturbed Coastal Plain River

Posted on November 2, 2021

Speaker: Dr. Yin-Hsuen Chen Postdoctoral Fellow Department of Geography University of Florida Thursday, November 4, 2021 3:00-3:50 PM (Period 8) Turlington Hall 3018 and Zoom University of Florida Watch on YouTube Biography: Dr. Yin-Hsuen Chen is a postdoctoral fellow at Department of Geography, University of Florida. She received her doctoral degree at the same department. Her […]

Graduate Student Funding Opportunities

Posted on October 28, 2021

Graduate Assistantships / Research Assistantships The Department of Geography at the University of Florida currently has multiple funded graduate student opportunities available for Spring or Fall 2022. UF Geography is a dynamic and growing program with 25 faculty and is nationally ranked in the top 10 of Geography departments by Academic Analytics. The department offers […]

Geography Colloquium: Mapping the marine world from reef to rift

Posted on October 27, 2021

Speaker: Dr. Vincent LeCours Assistant Professor Department of Geomatics University of Florida Thursday, October 28, 2021 2:50-3:50 PM (Period 8) Turlington Hall 3018 and Zoom University of Florida Livestreamed on YouTube Biography: Vincent Lecours is an Assistant Professor of Marine Remote Sensing and Geospatial Analysis at the University of Florida, where he leads the Marine […]

Geography Colloquium: African wildlife economies and governance – developing teaching and research into action partnerships

Posted on October 19, 2021

Speaker: Dr. Brian Child Associate Professor Department of Geography University of Florida Thursday, October 21, 2021 2:50-3:50 PM (Period 8) Turlington Hall 3018 and Zoom University of Florida Watch on YouTube Biography: Dr. Brian Child is an associate professor in Geography and Center for African Studies at the University of Florida. He received his Ph.D. […]

Geography Colloquium: Migration as a livelihood strategy in rural Honduras in response to emerging socio-ecological collapse

Posted on October 12, 2021

Watch on YouTube Speaker: Dr. Rebecca J. Williams Visiting Assistant Professor Center for Latin American Studies Master of Sustainable Development Practice Program Tropical Conservation and Development Program University of Florida Thursday, October 14, 2021 2:50-3:50 PM (Period 8) Turlington Hall 3018 and Zoom University of Florida Synopsis: Worldwide we are seeing the beginnings of large-scale […]

Pastoralist Violence in North and West Africa

Posted on October 7, 2021

PFLAUM – Pastoralist Violence in North and West Africa Article first published online: 13 JULY 2021 – OECD Publishing DOI: 10.1787/63dff519-en A new OECD working paper and a series of audio clips explores how pastoralists are both perpetrators and victims of violence in North and West Africa. This paper is available in both English and French. ABSTRACT: This study examines […]

Geography Colloquium: One Size AI Does Not Fit All: A Step Towards GeoAI

Posted on September 28, 2021

Watch on YouTube Speaker: Dr. Zhe Jiang Assistant Professor Dept. of Computer and Information Science and Engineering University of Florida Thursday, September 30, 2021 2:50-3:50 PM (Period 8) Turlington Hall 3018 and Zoom Abstract: Artificial intelligence (AI) has achieved tremendous success in computer vision and natural language processing. With rapidly increasing spatiotemporal data collected from ground, […]

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