Amazon deforestation, already rising, may spike under Bolsonaro

Posted on January 30, 2019

UF Geography’s Dr. Robert Walker discusses indigenous rights, conservation, and global climate change in his latest piece in The Conversation: Over the past 25 years that I have been conducting environmental research in the Amazon, I have witnessed the the ongoing destruction of the world’s biggest rainforest. Twenty percent of it has been deforested by […]

A 21st Century Agenda in Support of Amazonian Conservation

Posted on January 23, 2019

Associate Professor Dr. Cynthia Simmons and a team of international scholars – including UF Geography’s Dr. Robert Walker, Mike Waylen, and Aghane Antunes – present a strategy for achieving sustainable development in Amazonia, given global climate change and the massive infrastructure program planned for the region, in their latest paper Science in support of Amazonian […]

A Visit to the Earth Engine Workshop at Google DC

Posted on December 15, 2018

UF Geography grad students Xavier Haro-Carrión, Ryan Good, Audrey Smith recently visited Google’s Washington, DC, office to attend the Earth Engine Workshop during the American Geophysical Union 2018 meeting.

GeoGators Fight Breast Cancer with a Big Pink Volleyball

Posted on December 6, 2018

Five geography grad students formed a team to play in the Big Pink Volleyball tournament to raise money for Breast Cancer Awareness Month. The GeoGators played two games and finished the playoff round 1-1. We had lots of fun!

Geography Grad student receives best PhD paper at the 2018 SEDAAG annual meeting!

Posted on December 5, 2018

Second-year PhD student Stephanie Mundis of the Quantitative Disease Ecology & Conservation Lab, advised by Dr. Sadie Ryan, was recognized for her paper and presentation at the 2018 SouthEastern Division of the American Association of Geographers. Her presentation, “Spatial analysis of pyrethroid resistance genotypes in Aedes aegypti mosquitoes in Florida,” focused on spatial patterns in […]

Geography Undergrad receives best undergraduate poster at the 2018 SEDAAG annual meeting!

Posted on November 29, 2018

Geography major Sarah VanSchoick received the honor of best undergraduate poster at the 2018 SEDAAG annual meeting on November 19. Her research involved a geospatial analysis of rain rates produced by 38 tropical cyclones that affected Madagascar and Mozambique since 1998. She found that storms originating over the Southwest Indian Ocean had larger rainfall extents […]

Mr. Charles Wu awarded CLAS Dissertation Fellowship!

Posted on November 15, 2018

Congratulations to Mr. Charles Wu, who has been awarded a CLAS Dissertation Fellowship in the amount of $7,000, to be used in the Spring 2019 term.

Geography Colloquium: Marronage as a Landscape of Possibility

Posted on November 14, 2018

Marronage as a Landscape of Possibility Speaker: Dr. Willie Jamaal Wright Assistant Professor, Department of Geography, Florida State University Thursday, November 15, 2018 2:50-3:50 PM (Period 8) Turlington Hall Room 3018 University of Florida All are welcome to attend.

Join the GeoGators for GIS Day 2018!

Posted on November 13, 2018

Join UF GeoGators as we celebrate GIS Day! When: Wednesday 14 November 2018 Where: Marston Science Library Find out more (and RSVP) on Facebook! http://cms.uflib.ufl.edu/gisday/Index.aspx

Geography Colloquium: Weather, Warnings, and the Last Mile of Communication

Posted on November 7, 2018

Weather, Warnings, and the Last Mile of Communication Speaker: Stephen Mullens Adjunct Assistant Professor, Department of Geography, University of Florida Thursday, November 8, 2018 2:50-3:50 PM (Period 8) Turlington Hall Room 3012 University of Florida All are welcome to attend.

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