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Alumni Adventures: Charles Roop

My name is Charles Roop – Broadcast and Digital Meteorologist at WCTV-TV in Tallahassee, Florida He/him/his When did you attend UF? What degrees/certificates did you earn in the Department of Geography? After earning my A.A. from the College of Central Florida in 2006, I transferred to UF and graduated with a B.S. in Geography and […]

Celebrating Black Geographers for Black History Month

Geography is a diverse field. Throughout the month of February, we will be highlighting the work of Black Geographers, some of whom are #GeoGators. Special thanks the University of British Columbia Department of Geography for their excellent A reading list of Black geographers, which inspired this project. Dr. Keith Yearwood Keith is a GeoGator alum, a […]

Geography Colloquium: Dynamic Amazonia – Looking Back to See Forward

Speaker: Dr. Cynthia Simmons Associate Professor, Department of Geography, University of Florida Thursday, February 4, 2021 2:50-3:50 PM (Period 8) Turlington Hall 3018 and Zoom, livestreamed on YouTube University of Florida All are welcome to attend. Dr. Cynthia Simmons is Associate Professor in the Department of Geography, at the University of Florida. She is a […]

Meet the Geographer: Taras Kaduk

Taras Kaduk  Pronouns: he/him University of Florida Who is he? Taras is a geospatial data scientist and nontraditional student who recently completed an online Bachelor of Arts degree in Geography through UF Online, which was recently ranked the #3 online bachelor’s program by US News and World Reports. He is interested in geospatial data science/geoinformatics/geocomputation, […]

GEO2242 Extreme Weather

Extreme Weather GEO2242 Spring 2021 100% online This course will introduce students to the basic concepts of the science of weather and climate and current scientific developments in such areas as extreme weather prediction, global climate change, and improved forecasting of events. In addition, the course will address the impact of extreme climate and weather […]

New NSF grant to study how Covid affects international research networks

Dr. Olivier Walther and collaborators Dr. Greg Kiker (UF ABE) and Dr. Erica Odera (UF ABE) have received a new grant from the National Science Foundation to study the impact of Covid on international research networks. Using multi-criteria decision analysis and social network analysis, we hypothesize that international research teams can be designed to be […]

Geography Colloquium: What does Extreme Precipitation mean to you? Coproducing knowledge to inform research

Speaker: Dr. Esther Mullens Associate Professor, Department of Geography, University of Florida Thursday, January 28, 2021 2:50-3:50 PM (Period 8) Turlington Hall 3018 and Zoom, livestreamed on YouTube University of Florida All are welcome to attend. This seminar will discuss ongoing research on predicting extreme precipitation at seasonal to sub-seasonal (S2S) timescales, focusing specifically on […]

Alumni Adventures: Amber Todoroff

Amber Todoroff – Policy Associate at the Environmental and Energy Study Institute (EESI) She/her When did you attend UF? What degrees/certificates did you earn the the Department of Geography? I attended UF from 2010-2015, earning a BAs in Geography and English, and a minor in Sustainability Studies. After I graduated I attended the University of Oxford […]

Job Announcement: Assistant Professor in Atmospheric and Climate Science (AI)

  The Department of Geography at the University of Florida, College of Liberal Arts and Sciences, invites applications for two (2) full-time, nine-month, tenure-accruing positions, at the level of Assistant Professor to begin August 16, 2021. The department seeks candidates with expertise in Artificial Intelligence (AI) to study Atmospheric and Climate Science (meteorology, weather forecasting […]