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Geography Colloquium: Apocalyptic Species
October 10, 2023
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The Amazon is not safe under Brazil’s new president – a roads plan could push it past its breaking point
March 23, 2023
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Amazon
Brazil
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The Conversation
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Geography Colloquium: Resilient Socio-Environmental Systems: Indigenous Territories in the Face of Change
February 15, 2023
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Spatial analysis of human and livestock anthrax in Dien Bien province, Vietnam (2010–2019) and the significance of anthrax vaccination in livestock
January 3, 2023
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Blackburn
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Luong
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Globalized supply chains: Emergent telecouplings in Mexico’s beef economy and environmental leakages
March 7, 2022
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Waylen
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Fragmentation Trajectories as a Review of Existing and Proposed Single-valued Fragmentation Indices
January 13, 2022
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Journal of Environmental Science and Management
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Dr. Walker receives Sauer Distinguished Scholarship Award
January 4, 2022
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Walker
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Geography Colloquium: NAFTA’s Cartel Economy
March 23, 2021
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Collision Course: Development Pushes Amazonia Toward Its Tipping Point
December 23, 2020
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Amazon Basin
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Brazik
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Environment: Science and Policy for Sustainable Development
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Meet the Geographer: Morgan Walker
November 1, 2020
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Emerging Pathogens Institute
Geospatial Analysis and Techniques
MedGeo
Medical Geography in Global Health
Meet the Geographer
SEER Lab
Walker
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Animal carcasses may increase grazing potential and anthrax transmission risk for elk and bison, but differently
October 22, 2020
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anthrax
Bacillus anthracis
bison
Blackburn
carcasses
elk
Emerging Pathogens Institute
Etosha National Park
MedGeo
Montana
Namibia
plains
QDEC Lab
Royal Society Open Science
Ryan
SEER Lab
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Uribasterra
Walker
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Ungulate use of locally infectious zones in a re-emerging anthrax risk area
October 22, 2020
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anthrax
Bacillus anthracis
Blackburn
carcass sites
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MedGeo
pathogens
Royal Society Open Access
Ryan
Uribasterra
Walker
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GeoGator Grad Students get high Altmetic Exposure
September 2, 2020
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Irigaray Castro
Simmons
Walker
Waylen
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GEA4465 GEA6466: Seminar on Amazonia
July 14, 2020
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Fall 2020
Walker
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NAFTA’s Cartel Economy
June 25, 2020
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Annals of the American Association of Geographers
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deforestation
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Mexico
NAFTA
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Walker
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What Florida Can Learn from the Amazon Fires
June 4, 2020
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Amazon
Brazil
Florida
Florida Museum of Natural History
Walker
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Drs. Simmons and Walker Invited Speakers at the Alexander Von Humbolt Seminar 2019
May 26, 2020
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Alexander Von Humbolt Seminar 2019
Brazil
cattle
Center for Environmental Geography Research (CIGA)
Mexico
Michoacan (UNAM)
National University of Mexico
Simmons
Walker
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Post-NAFTA Changes in Peasant Land Use—The Case of the Pátzcuaro Lake Watershed Region in the Central-West México
March 5, 2020
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global cattle economy
Mexico
NAFTA
neo-liberal reforms
Pátzcuaro Lake Watershed Region
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post NAFTA México
Simmons
Walker
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Indigenous people may be the Amazon’s last hope
February 27, 2020
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Bolsonaro
Brazil
Carrara
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Graduate Publication
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indigeonous peoples
Irigaray Castro
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Walker
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Catastrophic Amazon tipping point less than 30 years away
February 18, 2020
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Amazon
Mongabay
Walker
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Agronomic or contentious land change? A longitudinal analysis from the Eastern Brazilian Amazon
January 27, 2020
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agrarian reform
Amazon
Brazil
deforestation
Faculty Publication
land tenure
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privatization
Simmons
Walker
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Announcing The Navi-Gator, Issue 3!
January 9, 2020
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Blackburn
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De Carvalho
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Florida
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Lippi
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McCleery
MedGeo
parks
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The Navi-Gator
tick
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Walker
Yan
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Geography Colloquium: Avoiding Amazonian Catastrophes – Prospects for Conservation in the 21st Century
November 14, 2019
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Amazon
Brazil
Geography Colloquium
UFGC
Walker
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Announcing The Navi-Gator, Issue 2!
November 7, 2019
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agriculture
Anderson Award for International Travel
Buffalo
Burma
Cavello
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De Carvalho
deforestation
Evan Coe Award in Medical Geography
Gavin
Ghana
GIS
Good
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John & Fawn Dunkle Award for Graduate Student Travel
Little Family Student Fellowship Award
Madagascar
McCleery
NASA
New York
SERVIR
The Navi-Gator
Top Published Student Research Article
Tulane University.
U.S. Agency for International Development
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Valenta
Walker
Walther
Wu
Yang
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Avoiding Amazonian Catastrophes: Prospects for Conservation in the 21st Century
October 25, 2019
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Amazon
Amazonia
Antunes
catastrophe
Faculty Publication
Graduate Publication
IIRSA
Integration of the Regional Infrastructure of South America (IIRSA)
Irigaray Castro
One Earth
Simmons
sustainability
Tapajós River
Tapajós River Valley
tipping point
Walker
Waylen
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Who pays the bill? The effects of altered brood size on parental and nestling physiology
October 4, 2019
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Journal of Ornithology
Walker
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Dr. Robert Walker talks Tipping Points in the Amazon with BBC’s PM Programme
September 13, 2019
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BBC
Jonny Dymond
PM
Walker
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Dr. Robert Walker’s #RedditAMA on the #Amazon
August 28, 2019
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Amazon
Brazil
Reddit
Walker
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Graduate Student Poster Presentation
April 12, 2019
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Black
Dillen
Geography Colloquium
Martin
Reynolds
Schaper
UFGC
Walker
Zhang
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UF Researchers Forecast Accelerated Deforestation and Displacement of Indigenous Peoples in Brazilian Amazon
February 28, 2019
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Amazon
Amazon Basin
Amazonia
Brazil
Brazil Nut Forest (BNF)
deforestation
IIRSA
indigeonous peoples
Integration of the Regional Infrastructure of South America (IIRSA)
Simmons
The Annals of the American Association of Geographers
Walker
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News
A 21st Century Agenda in Support of Amazonian Conservation
January 23, 2019
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Amazon
Amazonia
Antunes
Biotropica
Brazil
conservation
deforestation
Integration of the Regional Infrastructure of South America (IIRSA)
Irigaray Castro
Jair Bolsonaro
Munduruku
Para
Patawazal
Simmons
South America
Tapajós Valley
Walker
Waylen
Publications
Discipline and Develop: Destruction of the Brazil Nut Forest in the Lower Amazon Basin
December 20, 2018
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Amazon
Antunes
Brazil
Brazil Nut Forest (BNF)
Faculty Publication
Graduate Publication
Simmons
The Annals of the American Association of Geographers
Walker
Waylen
Publications
Science in support of Amazonian conservation in the 21st century: the case of Brazil
November 14, 2018
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Amazon
Antunes
Biotropica
Brazil
conservation
Faculty Publication
Graduate Publication
Simmons
Tapajós Valley
Walker
Waylen
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Endangered Amazon – An Indigenous Tribe Fights Back Against Hydropower Development in the Tapajós Valley
February 28, 2018
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Amazon
Brazil
conservation
hydropower
IIRSA
Initiative for the Integration of the Regional Infrastructure of South America
Madeira River
Munduruku
Simmons
Tapajós Valley
UNASUR
Union of South American Nations
Walker
Xingu River
Publications
Endangered Amazon: An Indigenous Tribe Fights Back Against Hydropower Development in the Tapajós Valley
February 28, 2018
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Amazon
Brazil
conservation
Faculty Publication
hydropower
IIRSA
Initiative for the Integration of the Regional Infrastructure of South America
Madeira River
Munduruku
Simmons
Tapajós Valley
UNASUR
Union of South American Nations
Walker
Xingu River
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Fountain of Youth
February 2, 2017
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Florida
Kissimmee River
Kudzu House
Lake Okeechobee
Orlando
Silver Springs
The Everglades
The Real Florida
US Army Corp of Engineers
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To Keep a River Running
November 16, 2016
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Amazon
Amazon Watch
Belo Monte Dam
Brazil
deforestation
Earth Island Journal
Eletrobras
Faculty Publication
hydropower
IBAMA
Irigaray Castro
Mato Grosso State
Munduruku
Pará State
South American Council of Infrastructure and Planning (COSIPLAN)
Tapajós dam project
Tapajós Hydroelectric Complex
Tapajós Valley
Walker
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Spring Course: GEO4938/GEO6938 LAS4935/LAS6938 Environmental Catastrophes, Tipping Points, and Challenges
November 4, 2016
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catastrophes
environemts
Extinction Crises
Global Warming
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Spring Courses 2017
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Dr. Robert Walker receives NSF Geography and Spatial Sciences award
October 6, 2016
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Center for Latin American Studies
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Galvan-Miyoshi
GATT
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maize
Mexico
NAFTA
Walker
Publications
Smallholders, Agrarian Reform, and Globalization in the Brazilian Amazon: Cattle versus the Environment
July 7, 2016
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agriculture
Amazon
beef
Brazil
cattle
environment
Faculty Publication
global cattle economy
globalization
Land
land grabs
production chains and networks
settlement projects
Simmons
Walker
Publications
Spatial Patterns of Frontier Settlement: Balancing Conservation and Development
March 15, 2016
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Amazon
biodiversity
Brazil
conservation
corridors
deforestation
ecology
Faculty Publication
infrastructure
Journal of Latin American Geography
landscape ecology
planning
roads
Simmons
Walker
Publications
Response to Corridors for people, corridors for nature
February 3, 2016
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Amazon
Amazonia
biodiversity
Brazil
conservation
ecology
environmental degradation
Faculty Publication
roads
Science
transportation
Walker
Publications
Biothreat Reduction and Economic Development: The Case of Animal Husbandry in Central Asia
December 23, 2015
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agriculture
Asia
biothreat
Blackburn
brucellosis
central Asia
epidemiology
Faculty Publication
foot and mouth disease
Frontiers in Public Health
Kazakhstan
Kyrgyzstan
livestock
MedGeo
public health
Tajikstan
Turkmenistan
Uzbekistan
Walker
zoonotic
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Spring Course: GEO4938/GEO6938 Environmental Catastrophes, Tipping Points, and Challenges
November 10, 2015
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Anthropocene
carbon
deforestation
Walker
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