Last Fall, Dr. Robert Walker talked with the Florida Museum of Natural History about What Florida Can Learn from the Amazon Fires. Robert Walker, a professor of Latin American geographers and geography in the University of Florida Center for Latin American Studies, grew up in Clearwater, Fla. He remembers driving down long stretches of I-75, peering out at mile after mile […]
GAINESVILLE, FL – SEER Lab Medical Geographer Dr. Michael Norris has launched a new BSL3 lab specifically to study COVID-19 at the Emerging Pathogens Institute. When the pandemic initially broke out, Dr. Norris initially offered his time to help with the testing effort, but quickly realized that his skills could be better utilized elsewhere. He […]
Dr. Lexi White Pronouns: she/her Quantitative Disease Ecology & Conservation Lab Emerging Pathogens Institute CDC Southeastern Center of Excellence in Vector Borne Diseases University of Florida Adviser: Dr. Sadie Ryan Focus Area: Medical Geography in Global Health (MGGH) Research Statement: I am a mathematical ecologist interested in the disease ecology dynamics between wildlife and humans. […]
GeoGator Amobichukwu Amanambu was selected as the May 2020 SEDAAG Highlighted Student Member. Congratulations, Amobi!
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Dr. Cynthia Simmons and Dr. Robert Walker were invited speakers at the Alexander Von Humbolt Seminar 2019 at the Center for Environmental Geography Research (CIGA), National University of Mexico, Michoacan (UNAM). Small rural producers, forests and globalization in Latin America In the first part of the conference the socioeconomic and environmental effects of the entry […]
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Dr. Sadie Ryan‘s paper Global expansion and redistribution of Aedes-borne virus transmission risk with climate change in PLoS Neglected Tropical Diseases, was included as the March entry for the Best of PLOS 2019 list. From the announcement: March: Climate change may mean more mosquito-borne diseases worldwide OK, this paper isn’t particularly calming–but it is timely and relevant. Researchers in PLOS […]
QDEC Lab Group PhD Candidate Stephanie Mundis was recently profiled for the CDC Southeastern Center of Excellence in Vector Borne Disease‘s Meet Our Team series. Find out more about Stephanie’s background and research interests at Meet Our Team: Stephanie Mundis!
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WLRN spoke with Dr. Sadie Ryan, an associate professor of medical geography at the University of Florida. She talked about what we can learn from these studies now that we’re living in a pandemic in a story titled New Study Says Deforestation Could Help Viruses Jump From Animals To Humans, Amid COVID-19 Pandemic.
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UF Geography Assistant Professor Dr. Gabriela Hamerlinck is hosting a Reddit AMA on pandemics this afternoon from 1 to 3 PM. Take a look at what she has to say and join the conversation!
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GAINESVILLE, FL – In a new paper published in PLoS ONE today, Dr. Olivier Walther and colleagues produced the first comprehensive mapping of the West African livestock trade network. Their network analysis of more than 42,000 movements from 2013-17 shows that live animals flow through well-defined, long distance trade corridors and that border markets are important […]
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