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To Keep a River Running

WALKER – To Keep a River Running Robert Walker Article first published online: 1 OCT 2016 Earth Island Journal It came in low, guns bristling through the open bay. Such a strange apparition, like a giant insect, almost familiar but for its unnatural sound and fury and the faces staring down at them, striped in the black […]

University of Florida and University of Michigan awarded funding to study “land-grab” impacts

The Dynamics of Coupled Natural and Human Systems (CNH) program of the National Science Foundation (NSF) has awarded a grant of $1.6 million to  study the impacts of land transactions and investments on agricultural production, ecosystem services, and food-energy security in Ethiopia. Dr. Jane Southworth, chair of the Department of Geography at the University of […]

Geography Colloquium: Geographic Conceptualization for GIS Representation and Analysis

Geographic Conceptualization for GIS Representation and Analysis Speaker: Dr. May Yuan Ashbel Smith Professor of Geospatial Information Sciences in the School of Economic, Political, and Policy Sciences at the University of Texas at Dallas Thursday, November 17, 2016 3:00-3:50 PM (Period 8) Turlington Hall Room 3006 University of Florida All are welcome to attend.

Spring Course: GEO4938/GEO6938 LAS4935/LAS6938 Environmental Catastrophes, Tipping Points, and Challenges

  Global Warming, Extinction Crises, Ocean Acidification.  The newspapers and magazines are full of environmental doomsday prophecies, and this course will help you make sense of what’s happening to our planet.  We start with an overview of recent academic articles that have identified critical components of the earth’s climate system that are on the verge […]