The paper, “Spatial modeling of road network development, population pressure and biophysical properties of upland crop and forest conversions in Lop Buri province, Thailand, 1989-2006.” by former Ph.D. student Dr. Risa Patarasuk and Dr. Tim Fik was named runner up by the Singapore Journal of Tropical Geography for its best paper of 2013. Risa is […]
PhD student Dawn Nekorchuk was accepted with scholarship into the 2014 Network Modeling for Epidemics workshop at the University of Washington. The workshop will be offered June 16-21 on the Seattle campus of UW. The hands-on course will cover classical descriptive network analysis and the new statistical methods of Exponential family Random Graph Models (ERGMs). […]
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At the close of the 2014 meeting of the Association of American Geographers, PhD Student Ryan Good completed his term as Student Director of the Africa Specialty Group (ASG). Ryan served a three year term after being elected to the ASG’s executive board in 2011. The ASG’s mission is to enhance geographic research and scholarship […]
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Carly was awarded the de Blij prize of $200 for the best paper presentation by an undergraduate at the 2014 Florida Society of Geographers Annual Meeting in Orlando. Her paper, entitled “Is Precipitation Driven by the Atlantic Multidecadal Oscillation Influencing Land Use and Land Cover in Florida?” outlined the results the research undertaken as part […]
Dr. Wu will address drinking water challenges in Matlab, a rural area of Bangladesh. The community-based childhood diarrhea data, tubewell information, arsenic concentrations in groundwater and climate data are collected and integrated in a geographic information system (GIS) database. The spatial relationship between childhood diarrhea and tubewell water access, groundwater arsenic levels, as well as […]
David Keellings and Sheldon Waugh are the awardees of the 2014 Ryan Poehling Fellowship. This award of $1500 is made annually to two graduate students, one in the Ph.D. program and one in the M.S./M.A. program, who best exemplify the sustained academic excellence, commitment to departmental service and leadership of the graduate program that Ryan […]
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The Department of Geography will award two Graduate Student Fellowships to PhD applicants who are admitted to the Fall 2014 term. These awards will cover four years of full tuition, stipend, and health insurance. Other funding will also be available. To qualify, be sure to submit all application materials by the January 31, 2014 deadline. […]
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The Office of Graduate Minority Program sponsors a two-day Campus Visitation Program (CVP) to give prospective graduate students the opportunity to engage with the UF community. You must apply as this program is by invitation only. Propspective students who are African-Americans, Hispanic-Americans, Native-Americans, Pacific Islanders, Asian-Americans, students underrepresented in their academic field (i.e., men in nursing, […]
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Joel Hartter has been appointed Associate Professor of Environmental Studies at the University of Colorado at Boulder beginning in spring 2014. At CU, Joel will continue his work focusing on human-environment interactions, primarily in the American West and Sub-Saharan Africa where he directs two ongoing projects funded by the USDA and NSF. Joel has also […]
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Working with partners from Italy, Kazakhstan, and the US (Louisiana State University), Drs. Jocelyn Mullins and Jason Blackburn developed ecological niche models of Bacillus anthracis, the causative agent of anthrax, to predict the geographic distribution of the disease across the landscape of each country. The work was published in PLOS ONE (http://www.plosone.org/article/info%3Adoi%2F10.1371%2Fjournal.pone.0072451). Previous studies have […]