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Spring Course: GEO4938/GEO6938 LAS4935/LAS6938 Environmental Catastrophes, Tipping Points, and Challenges

  Global Warming, Extinction Crises, Ocean Acidification.  The newspapers and magazines are full of environmental doomsday prophecies, and this course will help you make sense of what’s happening to our planet.  We start with an overview of recent academic articles that have identified critical components of the earth’s climate system that are on the verge […]

Spring Course: GEO4612/GEO6938/GEY6341 Shelter Care Options for US Elderly

HOUSING AND LONG-TERM CARE ISSUES FACING OLDER AMERICANS What constitutes residential normalcy for older adults? Aging successfully: does place matter? What are housing-care needs/problems of young-old vs. old-old? Aging in place or moving elsewhere: what are major determinants? What are the most critical housing and care-related needs? Why do neighborhood and community environments matter? What […]

Meteorology and Climatology student flies with NOAA’s Hurricane Hunters

University of Florida senior and undergraduate research assistant Alex DesRosiers worked a research based summer internship with NOAA’s Hurricane Hunters. The internship was based out of MacDill Air Force Base in Tampa where he worked under meteorologist and flight director Ian Sears. Alex’s internship was funded by the National Science Foundation (NSF) through Dr. Corene Matyas […]

Study savanna ecosystems, land change in Ethiopia and Florida with Dr. Southworth!

The College of Liberal Arts and Sciences, Department of Geography is recruiting a Post-Doctoral Associate positon for Dr. Southworth with her research group to work on (1) time series analysis of remotely sensed and climate data in savanna systems; (2) land grabs in Ethiopia analyzed via remotely sensed data; and (3) land cover analysis in […]

Geography Colloquium: Learning-By-Doing or ‘Experimentalist Governance’ in Wildlife Conservation in Southern Africa

Learning-By-Doing or ‘Experimentalist Governance’ in Wildlife Conservation in Southern Africa Speaker: Dr. Brian Child Associate Professor, Department of Geography, University of Florida Thursday, October 20, 2016 3:00-3:50 PM (Period 8) Turlington Hall Room 3006 University of Florida All are welcome to attend.