UF Sustainability and Carbon Neutrality Speaker: Mr. Matthew I. Williams Director, UF Office of Sustainability Thursday, September 26, 2019 2:50-3:50 PM (Period 8) Turlington Hall Room 3018 University of Florida All are welcome to attend.
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UF Geography Professor Dr. Corene Matyas will be hosting a Reddit AMA on hurricanes this afternoon from 2 to 4 PM. Take a look at what she has to say and join the conversation!
Dr. Olivier Walther and his colleague Dr. Marie Trémolières (OECD) are presenting a talk titled West African Border Cities: Growth and Density at the African Borderlands Research Network annual conference in Lomé, Togo this week. Their presentation is part of a panel on West African border cities that builds on their recent series of West African Papers published […]
Doing Research in Conflict Areas: Example of the Research on Boko Haram Speaker: Dr. Tatiana Smirnova Research Assistant Scientist, Department of Geography, University of Florida Thursday, September 19, 2019 2:50-3:50 PM (Period 8) Turlington Hall Room 3018 University of Florida All are welcome to attend.
GeoGator Dr. Cynthia Simmons joined colleagues at University of Texas, Austin’s Teresa Lozano Long Institute of Latin American Studies in a forum entitled Foro Urgente: “The Amazon Is Burning—Why It Should Matter to You”. The recent surge in Amazon forest fires has sounded the international alarm, eliciting protests from European heads-of-state, scientists, Hollywood stars, […]
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Dr. Robert Walker spoke about Tipping Points in the Amazon with Jonny Dymond on the BBC’s PM Programme. Listen to the whole show or scrub forward (Dr. Walker’s interview starts 41 minutes into the show).
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On Wednesday September 11th, Dr. Corene Matyas gave a public science talk at First Magnitude Brewing Company entitled Science on Tap: Is Florida Trying to Kill Me? Hurricanes. Click here to see the video of the event.
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Dr. Peter Waylen saw the first fruits of a collaboration with Dr. Chris Annear (Anthropology, Hobart and William Smith Colleges, Geneva, NY) in a paper entitled Socializing the rain: human adaptation to ecological variability in a fishery, Mweru-Luapula, Zambia, which appeared during the summer in the Journal of Political Ecology. Chris is a young Anthropologist […]
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Compound Flood Risk in a Changing Climate Water, Wetlands, and Watersheds Seminar at the UF Howard T. Odum Center for Wetlands Dr. Katy Serafin will talk about compound drivers of flooding along both open coasts and coastal rivers in a changing climate. 11:45am, Phelps 101, UF campus Can’t make it? Watch the video! https://cfw.essie.ufl.edu/seminars/ Is […]
Hurricane Dorian is moving up the coast and passing Florida, but there’s still a healthy amount of moisture being pulled into the storm. UF tropical storm expert Dr. Corene Matyas checked in with cheddar.com with the latest update on Hurricane Dorian, its impacts in Florida and projected conditions along the U.S. East Coast this afternoon. […]