The 61st Annual Meeting of the Florida Society of Geographers (FSG) is taking place at the University of Florida in Gainesville from February 21-21, 2025. More information about the meeting is available from the FSG website. Download the draft program here.
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Political violence is very irregularly distributed across time. Periods of relative calm are often followed by massive waves of attacks. Violent events are relatively rare, sparse and concentrated, making it difficult to evaluate whether violence is actually increasing or decreasing. To overcome these limitations, UF Geography Associate Professor Olivier Walther developed a new dashboard in […]
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Join us at the American Association of Geographers (AAG) Annual Meeting in Detroit from March 24-28, 2025! The preliminary program of our talks and posters is here. For the full conference program, please click here.
We are delighted to announce that Dr. Corene Matyas and Dr. Jane Southworth in UF Geography have just been announced as AAG Fellows for their work in climatology and human-environment dynamics by the American Association of Geographers. Congratulations, we are very proud of you! Read the full AAG statement here.
UF Geography will be at the American Meteorological Society (AMS) Annual Meeting in New Orleans this week. Come and see our wide array of research on parade! The full program is available here.
We will be presenting every day at the American Geophysical Union (AGU) annual meeting in Washington, D.C., this week. Come and see our wide array of research on parade! The full program is available here.
Call for Papers – Florida Society of Geographers Annual Meeting, University of Florida, Gainesville, February 21-23, 2025. The abstract submission deadline is January 10, 2025. Please register here: https://floridasocietyofgeographers.org Download the flyer.
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Last update: 10/18/2024 Climate change almost certainly made Hurricane Milton deluge worse explains Dr. David Keellings in this interview with the Miami Herald. Professor Corene Matyas was interviewed by the Australian Broadcasting Corporation’s News Breakfast and by ABC Radio News in Australia about Hurricane Milton on 10/8/2024. Dr. Matyas was on the CBC Radio […]
Neha Kohli received an American Institute of Indian Studies Junior Fellowship to carry out her PhD project “The Matter of Islands: Examining Island Narratives and Political Life in the Eastern Indian Ocean” in India in 2024-25. Early on, she also received a Graduate Student Research Fellowship from the American Association of Geographers’ Asian Geography Specialty […]
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