Campus Visitation Program for Fall 2014 Applicants

Posted on November 4, 2013

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, […]

2007 PhD graduate appointed Associate Director at CU

Posted on October 10, 2013

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 […]

SEER Lab models Bacillus anthracis

Posted on September 6, 2013

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 […]

Eric Keys interviewed by Guardian

Posted on September 5, 2013

Recently Professor Eric Keys was interviewed by the prestigious British newspaper, The Guardian, for his opinion as to how world markets could best help the poor. Eric’s suggestions were among 18 derived from a panel of experts. Eric notes: Information is key to M4P: Where I work in southeastern Mexico, the biggest impediment to agricultural […]

Carly Muir wins undergraduate prize

Posted on September 4, 2013

Carly Muir won the prize for the best undergraduate poster at the Florida Society of Geographers Annual Meeting in Tallahassee. Her research, carried out as a directed independent study, is part of a large NASA funded program in the department under the leadership of Prof. Southworth. Carly analyzed daily rainfall records from Maun, Botswana between […]

Amber Todoroff chosen for IDREHSI Experience

Posted on August 29, 2013

Amber was one of ten interns chosen to participate in the National Science Foundation’s Interdisciplinary Research Experience in Hyperspectral Imagery (IDREHSI) Research Experience for Undergraduates (REU) program at the University of Northern Iowa in Cedar Falls, Iowa. During this program she completed four weeks of intensive hyperspectral digital image processing and field lab training, accompanied by […]

Stephanie Zick awarded AMS travel grant

Posted on August 19, 2013

Congratulations to Geography Ph.D. student Stephanie Zick, who has been awarded an American Meteorological Society (AMS) student travel grant to attend the 36th Conference on Radar Meteorology in Breckenridge, CO, to be held September 16-20, 2013. The AMS awards student travel grants to senior undergraduate and graduate AMS student members, in recognition of the invaluable […]

Jeff Lower becomes President of MAPPS

Posted on June 24, 2013

Congratulations and kudos to Jeff Lower, who holds both undergraduate and Master’s degrees from the Department. Jeff will become President of Management Association for Private Photogrammetric Surveyors (MAPPS) this summer. MAPPS is the US national association of firms in the surveying, spatial data and geographic information systems field. Its members are engaged in surveying, photogrammetry, […]

Dr. Peter Waylen named Gibson Term Professor

Posted on May 1, 2013

“Dr. Peter Waylen has been named a Robin and Jean Gibson Term Professor for 2013-2014. The honor recognizes faculty members who demonstrate excellence in scholarship, teaching, and service, and carries a salary bonus and a small amount of research support. These professorships are funded entirely by private donors to the college for rewarding top faculty […]

Allassane Barro awarded travel URISA GIS

Posted on April 10, 2013

Congratulations to Alassane Barro, Ph.D. student in Geography. Alassane has been awarded an $800.00 travel award to attend the 4th URISA GIS in Public Health Conference in Miami, Florida 17-20 June 2013. This award is jointly funded by the Spatial Epidemiology & Ecology Research Lab and the Department of Geography. Medical Geography Awards Committee: Jason […]

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