Five geography grad students formed a team to play in the Big Pink Volleyball tournament to raise money for Breast Cancer Awareness Month. The GeoGators played two games and finished the playoff round 1-1. We had lots of fun!
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The UF Geography Department is sending a large contingent to New Orleans for the 2018 meeting of the American Association of Geographers Find out where you can see a GeoGator present their research below: Anthropogenic change to fluvial systems, I Geomorphology Specialty Group, Paleoenvironmental Change Specialty Group, Water Resources Specialty Group 4/10/2018 8:20 AM Balcony […]
Mr. Ryan Good, Dr. Dawn Nekorchuk, and Dr. Heidi Lannon were selected to participate in the College Board’s Annual AP Reading in Human Geography. At the beginning of June, geography teachers and college faculty members from around the world gathered in the Cincinnati, Ohio, to evaluate and score the free-response sections of the AP Exam. […]
PhD student Ryan Good has just been awarded the 2017 Graduate Assistant Teaching Award! Congratulations, Ryan!
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Three Geography graduate students recently gave presentations at the 11th Annual Conference of the Social Sciences, hosted by the Florida Society of the Social Sciences. Mr. David Hanson presented a paper titled “Exploring the Livelihood Vulnerability of Grenadian Households in a Peri-Urban Community” in Session III – The Human Factor: Nature and Environment. Mr. Ryan Good presented a paper […]
Over Spring Break, Geography doctoral student Mr. Ryan Good traveled to Haiti with a group from the Warrington College of Business on a consulting program called “Entrepreneurship and Empowerment in Haiti.” While there, the visiting Gators were featured in a story in the Haitian newspaper Le National (English translation).
GOOD – Review of the book East Africa and the Indian Ocean, by E.A. Alpers. Edward A. Alpers’ collected volume serves two purposes. First, it examines the significance of the Indian Ocean for eastern Africa. Second, it acts as a survey of the historian’s four decade career.
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Email: ryangood@ufl.edu Website State of origin: Kansas Degree Program: PhD Advisor: Dr. Jane Southworth and Dr. Mickie Swisher Entered Program: Fall 2009 Dissertation Topic: Urban Resource Use and Food Security in the Fisheries of Northern Tanzania Areas of/Research Interests: political economy of development, environmental justice, urban geography, globalization, cultural and political ecology Recent Publications R.Z. Good, 2015. Review of Edward […]