The Glenda Laws Award is administered by the American Association of Geographers and endorsed by members of the Institute of Australian Geographers, the Canadian Association of Geographers, and the Institute of British Geographers. The annual award recognizes outstanding contributions to geographic research on social issues. This award is named in memory of Glenda Laws—a geographer […]
Speaker: Dr. Clio Andris Associate Professor School of City and Regional Planning School of Interactive Computing Georgia Tech University Thursday, February 9, 2023 3:00-3:50 PM (Period 8) Recorded for YouTube Turlington Hall 3018 and Zoom University of Florida Abstract: A spatial social network (SSN) can be defined as a structure where nodes (people, organizations) are embedded […]
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Dr. Gabriela Hamerlinck (Gaby), an instructional faculty at the University of Florida, is an exceptional geography teacher. Her innovative and rigorous courses focus her students on applied activities and real-world examples such as designing a global pandemic response plan, critiquing how disease is portrayed in popular culture, or creating a zombie movie! She requires students […]
Speaker: Dr. Corene Matyas Professor Department of Geography University of Florida Thursday, January 26, 2023 3:00-3:50 PM (Period 8) Recorded for YouTube Turlington Hall 3018 and Zoom University of Florida Abstract: The different scanning strategies and atmospheric profiles through which energy beams pass from space-based as compared to ground-based radars can produce different reflectivity values in […]
Speaker: Dr. Jiayang Li Assistant Professor Department of Landscape Architecture, Florida Institute for Built Environment Resilience (FIBER) College of Design, Construction, and Planning University of Florida Thursday, January 18, 2023 3:00-3:50 PM (Period 8) Recorded for YouTube Turlington Hall 3018 University of Florida Abstract: Cities are exploring novel nature-based solutions (NBS) that integrate engineering and technological […]
Joins us in congratulating Amobichukwu Amanambu on winning a CLAS Dissertation Fellowship for the Spring 2023 semester. The award will support work on his dissertation, which is titled, “Drought, dam and dredging impacts on the upper Apalachicola River and floodplain.” Every fall, the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences (CLAS) awards approximately fifteen, one-semester dissertation […]
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I am delighted to announce this year’s graduate student winners for the Ryan M. Poehling 2023 Memorial Fellowship. This is our highest honor for our graduate students and all students must be nominated by a faculty member to be considered. This year the awards committee had a very difficult time due to the amazing set […]
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Speaker: Dr. Jacque Micieli-Voutsinas Assistant Professor School of Art and Art History, Museum Studies University of Florida Thursday, December 1, 2022 4:00-4:50 PM (Period 9) Recorded for YouTube Turlington Hall 3018 and Zoom University of Florida Abstract: Memorial Museums are evocative spaces. Drawing on aesthetic practices deeply rooted in representing the ‘unrepresentability’ of cultural trauma, most notably […]
Speaker: Gabrielle Quadrado PhD Student Department of Geography University of Florida Thursday, November 17, 2022 4:00-4:50 PM (Period 9) Recorded for YouTube Turlington Hall 3018 and Zoom University of Florida Abstract: Coastal zones along the Atlantic margin of the Southeastern United States (U.S.) have different physical characteristics due to the region’s long coastline, frequent storms, and […]
Speaker: Dr. Frank Li Project Scientist Joint Institute for Regional Earth System Science and Engineering University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) Thursday, November 1, 2022 4:00-4:50 PM (Period 9) Recorded for YouTube Turlington Hall 3018 and Zoom University of Florida Abstract: Using satellite measured clouds and precipitation from NASA CloudSat-CALIPSO estimates, and radiation from Clouds and […]