Graduate Students Discussion Session with Department Chair Speaker: Dr. Jane Southworth Professor and Chair, Geography Department, University of Florida Thursday, September 29, 2016 3:00-3:50 PM (Period 8) Turlington Hall Room 3006 University of Florida All are welcome to attend.
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Distance and Exporting – Cases from Nova Scotia and the UK Speaker: Dr. Ron Kalafsky Professor, Department of Geography, University of Tennessee Thursday, September 22, 2016 3:00-3:50 PM (Period 8) Turlington Hall Room 3006 University of Florida All are welcome to attend.
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Coffee, climate change and certification in Central America Speaker: Dr. Catherine Tucker Associate Professor, Departments of Anthropology and Latin American Studies, University of Florida Thursday, September 15, 2016 3:00-3:50 PM (Period 8) Turlington Hall Room 3006 University of Florida All are welcome to attend.
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Graduate Student Orientation Speaker: Dr. Greg Glass Professor, Department of Geography, University of Florida Thursday, August 25, 2016 3:00-3:50 PM (Period 8) Turlington Hall Room 3006 University of Florida All are welcome to attend.
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This summer, Geography’s Ryan Lab and the Emerging Pathogens Institute were proud to host Lauren Fregosi as a summer research intern working on Dr. Sadie Ryan‘s National Science Foundation’s Ecology and Evolution of Infectious Diseases (NSF EEID) grant. The internship, which was offered through the NSF Research Experience for Undergraduates (REU) program, was focused on modelling approaches […]
GAINESVILLE, Florida – A new collection of research articles, jointly edited by Dr. Sadie Ryan and published by PLoS ONE examines the health and well being of captive elephant populations in North American zoos and preserves. This collection is sensitive in nature. While keeping large, socially complex, and long-lived animals, such as elephants, in captivity […]
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The Geography Department is proud to announce that Dr. Liang Mao has been promoted to Associate Professor (effective 16 August 2016), and awarded tenure. Congratulations, Dr. Mao!
GAINESVILLE, Florida — Dr. Sadie Ryan (Assistant Professor of Medical Geography in the Department of Geography and UF’s Emerging Pathogen Institute) and colleagues, have just received a National Science Foundation (NSF) Division of Environmental Biology’s Ecology and Evolution of Infectious Diseases (EEID) Program rapid response, or RAPID grant to study the socio-ecology and climate responses of Zika virus transmission […]
The Geography Department is proud to announce a new Bachelor’s track (BA or BS) in Medical Geography in Global Health (MGGH). In addition to coursework in Medical Geography, the Bachelor’s in MGGH will include coursework in Geographic Information Systems (GIS), Quantitative Analysis, Physical Geography, Social Geography, Regional Geography, and electives including Extreme Weather, Extreme Floods, Human Footprint […]
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We are proud to announce our latest PhD graduates – Dr. José Javier Hernández Ayala, Dr. Lillian Morris, and Dr. Stephanie Zick! Dr. Zick will join the Department of Geography at Virginia Tech as an Assistant Professor of Geographic Meteorology. She looks forward to diversifying the program with her tropical meteorology and numerical weather prediction expertise. Dr, Morris […]
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