After graduating in May 2014 with a B.S. in Geography, Christian completed a summer internship on climate change communication with George Mason University and the National Park Service. He also volunteered at the local county emergency management office in Orlando. Recently, Christian accepted a position as an ORISE Fellow within the EPA, working with their […]
Our graduate students are representing the department very well at SEDAAG in Athens, GA.
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Brian Child has recently been appointed as the Biodiversity Panel Member of the Scientific and Technical Advisory Panel’s (STAP) of the Global Environmental Facility (GEF). STAP’s mandate is to provide strategic scientific and technical advice to the GEF to enhance the scientific and technical quality of GEF investments and to enhancing innovation. The Global Environmental […]
Recent doctoral graduate Erin Bunting has just taken up a position with the USGS in collaboration with the National Park Service, and Bureau of Land Management. She will be using her skills as a remote sensing ecologist to develop a drought vulnerability assessment for the National Parks of the southwest; a study area that covers […]
Dr. Greg Glass has joined the Geography Department in a joint position with the Emerging Pathogens Institute (EPI), as a full Professor. Dr. Glass joins us form Johns Hopkins University. His research addresses the maintenance and transmision dynamics of infectious agents, especially zoonotic agents. His work includes both laboratory and field research of animal reservoir […]
Dr. Bob Walker has joined the Department in a joint position with the Center for Latin American Studies, and was previously a Professor at Michigan State University. Dr. Walker is a Human Geographer, with a PhD in Regional Science from the University of Pennsylvania, which places him on the quantitative side of the field, with […]
Dr. Simmons has joined the department as an Associate Professor and was previously at Michigan State University. Dr. Simmons is a human geographer whose research program addresses the interaction of economic development and environmental policy in Less Developed Countries (LDCs). She is especially interested in the social consequences of these interactions, and much of her […]
Dr. Ryan joins us from SUNY-ESF, where she was an Assistant Professor. Her work addresses issues of Disease Ecology, tropical conservation, human-wildlife interface, and spatial modeling. Dr. Ryan has a joint position with the Department of Geography and the Emerging Pathogen Institute (EPI), and received her PhD from UC Berkeley. Her interdisciplinary work incorporates tools […]
Jane Southworth has been selected to receive the Florida Climate Institute Fellow Award for 2014-2015. This award is based on nominations from the faculty and department chairs with the winner selections based on an votes from members of the Florida Climate Institute Faculty Advisory Committee. The Fellow award recognizes faculty members who are making outstanding […]
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Gloria Tsai (Ph.D. 2012) will be taking up a post-doctoral position at the Center for Environmental Restoration and Disaster Reduction (CERDR) at National Chung Hsing University, Taiwan on January 1st, 2015. The mission of CERDR is to integrate resources from different research groups at National Chung Hsing University, to foster relationship between NCHU and nearby […]