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Lack of affordable homes means longer commute times for more people in the Tampa metro area

“The further you commute, the longer you commute – the more likely you’re able to find affordable housing,” Dr. Yujie Hu told WUSF’s Gabriella Paul in her recent piece Lack of affordable homes means longer commute times for more people in the Tampa metro area. You can listen to the story and read the transcript […]

Welcome to the Vector Data Ecosystem

GeoGator Dr. Cat Lippi (QDEC Lab, VectorByte) recently announced a ‘comprehensive guide to existing online data resources’ for vector-borne disease research that ‘will help to eliminate any confusion when choosing online databases, and promote greater use of existing resources’. “Science runs on data. As researchers, we know how valuable (and time consuming) collecting new data […]

Dr. Willie Wright receives the 2023 American Association of Geographers (AAG) Glenda Laws Award

Headshot of Doctor Willie Wright

The Glenda Laws Award is administered by the American Association of Geographers and endorsed by members of the Institute of Australian Geographers, the Canadian Association of Geographers, and the Institute of British Geographers. The annual award recognizes outstanding contributions to geographic research on social issues. This award is named in memory of Glenda Laws—a geographer […]

Dr. Gabriela Hamerlinck awarded AAG 2023 Harm J. de Blij Award for Excellence in Undergraduate Geography Teaching

Dr. Gabriela Hamerlinck (Gaby), an instructional faculty at the University of Florida, is an exceptional geography teacher. Her innovative and rigorous courses focus her students on applied activities and real-world examples such as designing a global pandemic response plan, critiquing how disease is portrayed in popular culture, or creating a zombie movie! She requires students […]

Geography Colloquium: Reflectivity as Detected by Space- and Ground-Based Radars Detecting Tropical Cyclones

Speaker: Dr. Corene Matyas Professor Department of Geography University of Florida Thursday, January 26, 2023 3:00-3:50 PM (Period 8) Recorded for YouTube Turlington Hall 3018 and Zoom University of Florida Abstract: The different scanning strategies and atmospheric profiles through which energy beams pass from space-based as compared to ground-based radars can produce different reflectivity values in […]

Geography Colloquium: Managing Urban Stormwater with Novel Nature-based Solutions: Why Community Perception and Everyday Landscape Experiences Matter

Speaker: Dr. Jiayang Li Assistant Professor Department of Landscape Architecture, Florida Institute for Built Environment Resilience (FIBER) College of Design, Construction, and Planning University of Florida Thursday, January 18, 2023 3:00-3:50 PM (Period 8) Recorded for YouTube Turlington Hall 3018 University of Florida Abstract: Cities are exploring novel nature-based solutions (NBS) that integrate engineering and technological […]

Congrats Amobi Amanambu on winning a CLAS Dissertation Fellowship

Joins us in congratulating Amobichukwu Amanambu on winning a CLAS Dissertation Fellowship for the Spring 2023 semester. The award will support work on his dissertation, which is titled, “Drought, dam and dredging impacts on the upper Apalachicola River and floodplain.” Every fall, the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences (CLAS) awards approximately fifteen, one-semester dissertation […]

CONGRATULATIONS TO THE 2023 RYAN POEHLING FELLOWSHIP AWARD WINNERS!

I am delighted to announce this year’s graduate student winners for the Ryan M. Poehling 2023 Memorial Fellowship. This is our highest honor for our graduate students and all students must be nominated by a faculty member to be considered. This year the awards committee had a very difficult time due to the amazing set […]

Geography Colloquium: Affective Heritage and the Politics of Memory after 9/11: Curating Trauma at the Memorial Museum

Speaker: Dr. Jacque Micieli-Voutsinas Assistant Professor School of Art and Art History, Museum Studies University of Florida Thursday, December 1, 2022 4:00-4:50 PM (Period 9) Recorded for YouTube Turlington Hall 3018 and Zoom University of Florida Abstract: Memorial Museums are evocative spaces. Drawing on aesthetic practices deeply rooted in representing the ‘unrepresentability’ of cultural trauma, most notably […]