The weekend’s Florida Society of Geographer’s Annual meeting in Jacksonville, FL turned out great for UF Geography: out of six available student prizes the department won three! These are our winners: Best Graduate Presentation Award, 1st place: David Keellings: Investing Teleconnection Drivers of Bivariate Heat Wave in Florida using Extreme Value Analysis Honorable Mention Presentation: […]
The Department of Geography at the University of Florida is seeking exceptional students to work as part of an interdisciplinary student-faculty team on a research project entitled, Hydrologic transformation in the Amazon basin: reconciling economy, society, and the environment. The project provides four years of support to six graduate fellows at the doctoral level, from […]
Two alums of 2014, Jessy Van Horn and James Richardson, shared the $500 prize for the best graduate student poster at SEDAAG 2014 despite completing the research as part of their undergraduate course in Models in Hydrology. Jessy is currently a graduate student at the University of East Carolina and James is a technician with […]
After graduating in May 2014 with a B.S. in Geography, Christian completed a summer internship on climate change communication with George Mason University and the National Park Service. He also volunteered at the local county emergency management office in Orlando. Recently, Christian accepted a position as an ORISE Fellow within the EPA, working with their […]
Our graduate students are representing the department very well at SEDAAG in Athens, GA.
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Brian Child has recently been appointed as the Biodiversity Panel Member of the Scientific and Technical Advisory Panel’s (STAP) of the Global Environmental Facility (GEF). STAP’s mandate is to provide strategic scientific and technical advice to the GEF to enhance the scientific and technical quality of GEF investments and to enhancing innovation. The Global Environmental […]
Recent doctoral graduate Erin Bunting has just taken up a position with the USGS in collaboration with the National Park Service, and Bureau of Land Management. She will be using her skills as a remote sensing ecologist to develop a drought vulnerability assessment for the National Parks of the southwest; a study area that covers […]
Dr. Greg Glass has joined the Geography Department in a joint position with the Emerging Pathogens Institute (EPI), as a full Professor. Dr. Glass joins us form Johns Hopkins University. His research addresses the maintenance and transmision dynamics of infectious agents, especially zoonotic agents. His work includes both laboratory and field research of animal reservoir […]
Dr. Bob Walker has joined the Department in a joint position with the Center for Latin American Studies, and was previously a Professor at Michigan State University. Dr. Walker is a Human Geographer, with a PhD in Regional Science from the University of Pennsylvania, which places him on the quantitative side of the field, with […]
Dr. Simmons has joined the department as an Associate Professor and was previously at Michigan State University. Dr. Simmons is a human geographer whose research program addresses the interaction of economic development and environmental policy in Less Developed Countries (LDCs). She is especially interested in the social consequences of these interactions, and much of her […]