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Florida Society of Geographers Awards!

The GeoGators did great at the 57th Annual Meeting of the Florida Society of Geographers this Saturday the 20th of February. Julia Tiplea (honorary GeoGator- School of Forest Resources & Conservation Geomatics Program) won best undergrad paper presentation David Caplan won best undergrad poster Holli Capps won best masters paper presentation Leandra Merz won best PhD paper […]

Strong GeoGator showing at FSG

There will be a strong GeoGator presence at the 57th Annual Meeting of the Florida Society of Geographers this Saturday the 20th of February. Whether you want to learn about risk perceptions, coastal flooding, land use change, rural violence, riparian erosion and siltation, extreme rainfall,  disease transmission, or park conservation, we’ve got you covered! Physical Geography (Moderator […]

Geography Colloquium: Assessing the impact of trade agreements on land change in Brazil’s Amazonia

Speaker: Dr. Eugenio Arima Associate Professor, Department of Geography and the Environment, University of Texas at Austin Thursday, February 18, 2021 2:50-3:50 PM (Period 8) Turlington Hall 3018 and Zoom, livestreamed on YouTube University of Florida All are welcome to attend. Dr. Eugenio Arima is an Associate Professor in the Department of Geography and the […]

We’re Hiring! Administrative Spec II

The Department of Geography at the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences is currently recruiting for the position of Administrative Specialist II. This position functions as the Contracts and Grants operations coordinator for the Department of Geography. Provides support to the Chair and faculty of the Department by managing grant, human resources and fiscal activities. […]

Geography Colloquium: Interactive Machine Learning for Heterogeneous Geo-spatial Data

Speaker: Dr. Morteza Karimzadeh Associate Professor, Department of Geography, University of Colorado Boulder Thursday, February 11, 2021 2:50-3:50 PM (Period 8) Turlington Hall 3018 and Zoom, livestreamed on YouTube University of Florida All are welcome to attend. Dr. Karimzadeh is a spatial data scientist, with contributions in geographic information retrieval, machine learning, geo-visualization, and visual […]

Alumni Adventures: Charles Roop

My name is Charles Roop – Broadcast and Digital Meteorologist at WCTV-TV in Tallahassee, Florida He/him/his When did you attend UF? What degrees/certificates did you earn in the Department of Geography? After earning my A.A. from the College of Central Florida in 2006, I transferred to UF and graduated with a B.S. in Geography and […]

Celebrating Black Geographers for Black History Month

Geography is a diverse field. Throughout the month of February, we will be highlighting the work of Black Geographers, some of whom are #GeoGators. Special thanks the University of British Columbia Department of Geography for their excellent A reading list of Black geographers, which inspired this project. Dr. Keith Yearwood Keith is a GeoGator alum, a […]

Geography Colloquium: Dynamic Amazonia – Looking Back to See Forward

Speaker: Dr. Cynthia Simmons Associate Professor, Department of Geography, University of Florida Thursday, February 4, 2021 2:50-3:50 PM (Period 8) Turlington Hall 3018 and Zoom, livestreamed on YouTube University of Florida All are welcome to attend. Dr. Cynthia Simmons is Associate Professor in the Department of Geography, at the University of Florida. She is a […]

Meet the Geographer: Taras Kaduk

Taras Kaduk  Pronouns: he/him University of Florida Who is he? Taras is a geospatial data scientist and nontraditional student who recently completed an online Bachelor of Arts degree in Geography through UF Online, which was recently ranked the #3 online bachelor’s program by US News and World Reports. He is interested in geospatial data science/geoinformatics/geocomputation, […]