Graduate Student Michelle Ruiz was selected to join the Fall 2024 cohort of the Bill Anderson Fund. The Bill Anderson Fund supports minority graduate students who are historically underrepresented in hazards and disaster-related careers. Since its establishment in 2014, the program has enrolled over 100 students from more than 20 disciplines, offering professional development through […]
Join us for the GeoGator Summer Research Program poster symposium, August 29th, 3-4pm, UF Geography Department. Our students will be presenting their amazing research on climate change, hydrology, disease transmission, geomorphological changes, and more. Everyone is invited!
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Join us at the American Association of Geographers (AAG) Annual Meeting in Hawai’i from 16-20 September. The Department of Geography will be presenting more than 30 papers! Unable to display PDF file. Download instead.
UF Geography was well represented at this year’s Emerging Pathogens Institute (EPI) Research Day. Simrik Bhandari, a first year Masters student working in the Quantitative Disease Ecology and Conservation (QDEC) lab, presented a poster on the spatial patterns of dengue incidence in Nepal. Gavriella Hecht, a second-year PhD student in the Quantitative Disease Ecology […]
Speaker: Dr. Manny Hernandez Senior Analyst Catastrophe Research & Development Liberty Mutual Thursday, March 7, 2024 3:00-3:50 PM (Period 8) Recorded for YouTube Turlington Hall 3018 and Zoom University of Florida Abstract: The escalating frequency and intensity of weather-related events, such as wildfires in California and severe hailstorms over the Midwest, have amplified the impact […]
The University of Florida’s Division of Student Life has announced the 2024 Hall of Fame class. Among the students receiving the highest recognition given to UF student leaders includes Geography major Julia Haley! The UF Hall of Fame is reserved for those students who have shown superior leadership and achievement through their activities and scholarship […]
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Introduction “I am probably not what people would expect to see when deciding what a college student at UF looks like. At 41 l am an older returning student, and I am double majoring in geography and anthropology, both online only. As a teenager life kind of got in the way of me following my […]
Speaker: Dr. Sagy Cohen Professor Department of Geography University of Alabama Thursday, February 29, 2024 3:00-3:50 PM (Period 8) Coffee and Cookies Start at 2:45pm Recorded for YouTube Reitz G330 and Zoom University of Florida Cohosted by the UF Water Institute’s Distinguished Seminar Series and UF Geography Department’s Colloquium Series. All are welcome to attend. […]
The Florida Society of Geographers recently convened for its 60th Annual Meeting. This year’s event was held on February 16-17 in St Augustine, FL. A group of 12 graduate students from the department attended the meeting. The best oral and poster presentations are annually recognized at the undergraduate, masters, and doctoral level. This year, our graduate […]
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Dr. Pierce Jones Program for Resource Efficient Communities University of Florida Thursday, February 22, 2024 3:00-3:50 PM (Period 8) Recorded for YouTube Turlington Hall 3018 and Zoom University of Florida Abstract: The Program for Resource Efficient Communities (PREC) collaborates with large, master-planned community development projects to promote reduced-impact design, construction, and management practices. We use […]
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