Carly was awarded the de Blij prize of $200 for the best paper presentation by an undergraduate at the 2014 Florida Society of Geographers Annual Meeting in Orlando. Her paper, entitled “Is Precipitation Driven by the Atlantic Multidecadal Oscillation Influencing Land Use and Land Cover in Florida?” outlined the results the research undertaken as part […]
Dr. Wu will address drinking water challenges in Matlab, a rural area of Bangladesh. The community-based childhood diarrhea data, tubewell information, arsenic concentrations in groundwater and climate data are collected and integrated in a geographic information system (GIS) database. The spatial relationship between childhood diarrhea and tubewell water access, groundwater arsenic levels, as well as […]
David Keellings and Sheldon Waugh are the awardees of the 2014 Ryan Poehling Fellowship. This award of $1500 is made annually to two graduate students, one in the Ph.D. program and one in the M.S./M.A. program, who best exemplify the sustained academic excellence, commitment to departmental service and leadership of the graduate program that Ryan […]
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The Department of Geography will award two Graduate Student Fellowships to PhD applicants who are admitted to the Fall 2014 term. These awards will cover four years of full tuition, stipend, and health insurance. Other funding will also be available. To qualify, be sure to submit all application materials by the January 31, 2014 deadline. […]
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The Office of Graduate Minority Program sponsors a two-day Campus Visitation Program (CVP) to give prospective graduate students the opportunity to engage with the UF community. You must apply as this program is by invitation only. Propspective students who are African-Americans, Hispanic-Americans, Native-Americans, Pacific Islanders, Asian-Americans, students underrepresented in their academic field (i.e., men in nursing, […]
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Joel Hartter has been appointed Associate Professor of Environmental Studies at the University of Colorado at Boulder beginning in spring 2014. At CU, Joel will continue his work focusing on human-environment interactions, primarily in the American West and Sub-Saharan Africa where he directs two ongoing projects funded by the USDA and NSF. Joel has also […]
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Drs. Karoun Bagamian, Postdoc, and Jason Blackburn have published a review on the importance of serological testing anthrax affected wildlife populations. The study appears in the upcoming Journal of Wildlife Diseases and makes important surveillance recommendations.
Dr. Kathy Alexander, Virginia Tech, and Dr. Jason Blackburn, UF Geography, have evaluated the seasonal patterns and likely causes of diarrheal disease outbreaks in Botswana using a simple questionnaire and existing hospital staff and infrastructure. The approach does not require increased human or economic resources, and it can give immediate insight into public health threats […]
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Congratulations to Andres “Andy” Garcia who has just started a new two-year position with the Gates Foundation in Seattle. Andy will be developing geospatial applications to trace and display the distribution and spread of various diseases globally. He will return to Gainesville in a month to defend his doctoral thesis.
Dr. James Elsner is the Earl & Sophia Shaw Endowed Chair in Geography at Florida State University. He will give a guest lecture on hurricanes in MET4532/MET6530 on September 25 and present his tornado-related research during Colloquium on September 26, 2013. He has co-authored three books and over 115 journal articles on hurricane climatology, risks, […]
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