Welcome to the Geography Department Fall 2016 Semester. As I look forward to the coming semester, chaos will reign, as many exciting changes will envelop the Geography Department! As of August 16th, I am now the new Department Chair, and I am looking forward to my coming term with much excitement. I have been a […]
As of today Dr. Jane Southworth will serve as the Chair of the Geography Department, as Dr. Michael Binford steps down. Dr. Southworth has previously served as Graduate Coordinator and Associate Chair and has strong connections across campus, as a member of the Land Use and Environmental Change Institute (LUECI), the Florida Climate Institute, the […]
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Spring 2016 PhD graduate Dr. José Javier Hernández Ayala has accepted the position of Visiting Assistant Professor of Physical Geography and Climatology in the Department of Geography at Texas A&M University. At Texas A&M, Javi will be teaching undergraduate and graduate sections of the courses Global Climate Regions and Hydrology & Environment. Javi will also continue his research hydroclimatic […]
GAINESVILLE, Florida – A new collection of research articles, jointly edited by Dr. Sadie Ryan and published by PLoS ONE examines the health and well being of captive elephant populations in North American zoos and preserves. This collection is sensitive in nature. While keeping large, socially complex, and long-lived animals, such as elephants, in captivity […]
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The Geography Department is proud to announce that Dr. Liang Mao has been promoted to Associate Professor (effective 16 August 2016), and awarded tenure. Congratulations, Dr. Mao!
GAINESVILLE, Florida — Dr. Sadie Ryan (Assistant Professor of Medical Geography in the Department of Geography and UF’s Emerging Pathogen Institute) and colleagues, have just received a National Science Foundation (NSF) Division of Environmental Biology’s Ecology and Evolution of Infectious Diseases (EEID) Program rapid response, or RAPID grant to study the socio-ecology and climate responses of Zika virus transmission […]
The Geography Department is proud to announce a new Bachelor’s track (BA or BS) in Medical Geography in Global Health (MGGH). In addition to coursework in Medical Geography, the Bachelor’s in MGGH will include coursework in Geographic Information Systems (GIS), Quantitative Analysis, Physical Geography, Social Geography, Regional Geography, and electives including Extreme Weather, Extreme Floods, Human Footprint […]
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We are proud to announce our latest PhD graduates – Dr. José Javier Hernández Ayala, Dr. Lillian Morris, and Dr. Stephanie Zick! Dr. Zick will join the Department of Geography at Virginia Tech as an Assistant Professor of Geographic Meteorology. She looks forward to diversifying the program with her tropical meteorology and numerical weather prediction expertise. Dr, Morris […]
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Three Geography graduate students recently gave presentations at the 11th Annual Conference of the Social Sciences, hosted by the Florida Society of the Social Sciences. Mr. David Hanson presented a paper titled “Exploring the Livelihood Vulnerability of Grenadian Households in a Peri-Urban Community” in Session III – The Human Factor: Nature and Environment. Mr. Ryan Good presented a paper […]
Over Spring Break, Geography doctoral student Mr. Ryan Good traveled to Haiti with a group from the Warrington College of Business on a consulting program called “Entrepreneurship and Empowerment in Haiti.” While there, the visiting Gators were featured in a story in the Haitian newspaper Le National (English translation).