Dr. Corene Matyas received the award for Excellence in Teaching at the 2019 annual meeting of the Southeastern Division of the American Association of Geographers. This award acknowledges sustained excellence and creativity in the college classroom. Winners meet the following criteria: (1) Exceptional commitment to effective geography teaching; (2) Record of efforts to help diffuse […]
GEO3452 Introduction to Medical Geography (Gen-Ed B) Course description: Medical geography deals with human-environment interactions and the influence of these interactions on public health. This course provides a broad-based, comprehensive survey of geographic topics and approaches in medical sciences. Hands-on experiences will be emphasized through GIS labs. Successful students will be able to: Apply geographic […]
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GEO2200L: Physical Geography Lab (Summer A) Course description: This course gives overview of the development, distribution, and interrelationships of landforms, climates, minerals, soils, and water resources Students will be able to learn: Explain the development and distribution of landforms, climates, minerals, soils and water resources. Describe the interrelationships among the physical environment and regional patterns […]
GEO2200 Physical Geography Instructors: Carly Muir, Guoqian Yan, Leandra Merz Semester: Summer A and Summer B – Online We study the basic elements of the physical world in which climates, biomes, and landforms are examined in terms of their natural occurrences, distribution and interrelationships. The class meets the General Education requirements of a Physical Science. […]
Our Senior Profile for UF Geography today features GeoGator Heidi Dodds Future Plans: I was planning to begin applying to companies when the pandemic began so my ability to get a career started has been delayed. I have been sending my information out and making sure companies have my information once things get up and […]
In January, Dr. Corene Matyas was recognized for her work on hurricanes at the Women in the Tropics special session at the annual meeting of the American Meteorological Society. Dr. Joanne Simpson is at the upper center of the image – the first woman in the U.S. to receive a PhD in meteorology (1949) who […]
Our Senior Profile for UF Geography today features GeoGator Amy Jones Future Plans: I am taking a year or two off in order to gain experience/ skills in the workplace before applying to graduate school. I am interested in pursuing a career in fields such as public health, epidemiology, or forensic anthropology (my other major). […]
GeoGator PhD Student and UF Water Institute Graduate Fellow Alexandra Sabo writes about the Rights of Nature movement for WUFT News on Earth Day 2020. Rights of Nature Most of the time, the Floridan Aquifer feeds the nearly 200 springs in the Suwanee River Basin, pushing water up through ancient porous limestone to the surface. During times […]
As we approach the end of the semester we are starting to feature our Graduating Seniors. Here we will feature a different graduating senior’s profile. We asked all our graduating seniors a series of questions about future plans, their time here at UF and in UF Geography specifically. We also asked for a current photo […]
Medical Geography PhD student Cat Lippi led a new Featured Creatures article on a bromeliad mosquito, Wyeomyia vanduzeei, published online by UF Entomology and Nematology and FDACS/DPI. Wyeomyia vanduzeei lays eggs and completes larval development in water held by bromeliad plants, making these mosquitoes more common in central and southern Florida where bromeliads are frequently […]
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