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Geography Colloquium: Setting a bottom-up research agenda to improve community health – An inclusive mixed-methods approach in Northern Uganda

Speaker: Nick Dowhaniuk (he/him) PhD Student, Department of Geography, University of Florida Thursday, April 1, 2021 2:50-3:50 PM (Period 8) Turlington Hall 3018 and Zoom, livestreamed on YouTube University of Florida All are welcome to attend. Nick Dowhaniuk is a Ph.D. Candidate in the Department of Geography, University of Florida. With a M.H.S. in Environmental […]

Geography Colloquium: Masters Student Posters

Speakers: Meirah Williamson, “Damages Associated with Excessive Rainfall Outlooks (EROs) and Missed Flash Floods” Holli Capps, “Spatial and Temporal Variability in the Characteristics of Extreme Daily Rainfalls in Ghana“ Christopher Williams, “People, Places, and Risk Perceptions: Tornado Sheltering during the COVID-19 Pandemic” Tierney Shimansky, “The Effects of Governance Type and Scale on Community Conservation in […]

UF signs a memorandum of understanding with the OECD to reinforce research in the West African Sahel

GAINESVILLE, FL – On March 4th, 2021, the University of Florida signed a memorandum of understanding (MoU) with the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) to encourage research on social and political changes in the West African Sahel. Signed on behalf of the UF Center for African Studies, the new agreement will reinforce ties […]

Emerita Professor Dr. Barbara McDade-Gordon was recently featured in American Geographical Society’s Celebrating Black Geographers

Emerita Professor Dr. Barbara McDade-Gordon was recently featured in American Geographical Society‘s Celebrating Black Geographers the First Cohort: 1900-2000. Professor McDade Gordon was a faculty member in the Geography Department at the University of Florida Gainesville. Before her retirement in 2016, she was a faculty affiliate of the Center for African Studies and the African […]

Geography Colloquium: The Land-Grab Industry in the Brazilian Amazon – the stealing of public lands with the government’s approval

Speaker: Gabriel Cardoso Carrero PhD Student, Department of Geography, University of Florida Thursday, March 11, 2021 2:50-3:50 PM (Period 8) Turlington Hall 3018 and Zoom, livestreamed on YouTube University of Florida All are welcome to attend. Gabriel is a Ph.D. Candidate in Geography at the University of Florida. With a B.Sc. in Biology and an […]

Interventions can shift the thermal optimum for parasitic disease transmission

  Temperature influences the transmission of many diseases, but the effects of temperature variability on the transmission of parasitic diseases are poorly understood. A new study investigated the influence of water temperature on the transmission risk for schistosomiasis, a disease that affects over 200 million people annually. Schistosomiasis is caused by parasitic worms which develop […]

Celebrating Women Geographers for Women’s History Month

Geography is a diverse field. Throughout the month of March, we will be highlighting the work of Women Geographers, some of whom are #GeoGators. Tierney Shimansky Tierney is a Master’s student who studies land management and conservation in southern Africa. Dr. Yin-Hsuen Chen Yin-Hsuen is a fluvial geomorphologist and Postdoctoral Researcher at the University of […]