Speaker: Dr. Robert Walker Professor, Department of Geography, University of Florida Thursday, March 25, 2021 2:50-3:50 PM (Period 8) Turlington Hall 3018 and Zoom, livestreamed on YouTube University of Florida All are welcome to attend. For more information, email Dr. Tim Fik at fik@ufl.edu
The UF Geography community stands with our Asian American Pacific Islander (AAPI) students, alumni, colleagues, staff, and their community, which has faced heightened discrimination and attacks in recent months. We reaffirm the statements of UF’s President Fuchs.
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 […]
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 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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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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 […]
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As part of SEER Lab‘s long-running collaboration with the Cervidae Health Research Initiative (CHeRI), this latest paper, lead by Jeremy Orange and Dr. Jason Blackburn, evaluated exposure rates to bluetongue virus (BTV) and epizootic hemorrhagic disease virus (EHDV) in non-native wildlife managed on large preserves in Northern Florida. The wildlife/deer ranching industry represents one of […]
Meirah Williamson’s talk “How Much Do Flash Flooding Events Outside of an Excessive Rainfall Outlook (ERO) Matter?” at the 2021 AMS Annual Meeting was selected as the 2nd place oral presentation among student entries in the hydrology section. Congratulations Meirah!
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