Catastrophic Amazon tipping point less than 30 years away

Posted on February 18, 2020

Dr. Robert Walker‘s work was recently featured in Catastrophic Amazon tipping point less than 30 years away: study, an article in Mongabay. The present study, led by Robert Walker at the University of Florida, Gainesville, combined projections of future agricultural expansion published by Brazil’s Ministry of Agriculture, Livestock and Food Supply (MAPA) and the Food […]

Agronomic or contentious land change? A longitudinal analysis from the Eastern Brazilian Amazon

Posted on January 27, 2020

SIMMONS, WALKER – Agronomic or contentious land change? A longitudinal analysis from the Eastern Brazilian Amazon Stephen P. Aldrich,Cynthia S. Simmons, Eugenio Arima, Robert T. Walker, Fernando Michelotti, Edna Castro Article first published online: 27 JAN 2020 PLOS ONE DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0227378 ABSTRACT: Since 1984, nearly 1,000 people have been killed in the Brazilian Amazon due […]

Announcing The Navi-Gator, Issue 3!

Posted on January 9, 2020

University of Florida Department of Geography The Navi-Gator January 2020, ISSUE 3 (Download PDF) Evening of excellence John & Fawn Dunkle Award for Graduate Student Travel: Ryan Good & Guoqian Yan David L. Niddrie Excellence Fund: Tierney Shimansky & Shreejana Bhattarai Little Family Student Fellowship Award: Caroline Parks Ryan Poehling Award for Top Graduate Student: […]

Geography Colloquium: Avoiding Amazonian Catastrophes – Prospects for Conservation in the 21st Century

Posted on November 14, 2019

Avoiding Amazonian Catastrophes – Prospects for Conservation in the 21st Century Speaker: Dr. Robert Walker Professor, Department of Geography, University of Florida Thursday, March 14, 2019 2:50-3:50 PM (Period 8) Turlington Hall Room 3018 University of Florida All are welcome to attend. New infrastructure threats confront the Amazon. Resulting development could push its forest past […]

Announcing The Navi-Gator, Issue 2!

Posted on November 7, 2019

University of Florida Department of Geography The Navi-Gator OCTOBER 2019, ISSUE 2 So many new and exciting things have happened… Check out our amazing new grad lab in 1215! Come visit us in the geography office– lounge around in reclining chairs and grab some new GeoGator merch. We have T-shirts and sweatshirts for sale, […]

Avoiding Amazonian Catastrophes: Prospects for Conservation in the 21st Century

Posted on October 25, 2019

ANTUNES, IRIGARAY CASTRO, SIMMONS, WALKER, WAYLEN – Avoiding Amazonian Catastrophes: Prospects for Conservation in the 21st Century Robert Toovey Walker, Cynthia Simmons, Eugenio Arima, Yankuic Galvan-Miyoshi, Aghane Antunes, Michael Waylen, and Maíra Irigaray Article first published online: 25 OCT 2019 One Earth DOI: 10.1016/j.oneear.2019.09.009 ABSTRACT: A new threat now confronts the Amazon in the form […]

Who pays the bill? The effects of altered brood size on parental and nestling physiology

Posted on October 4, 2019

WALKER– Who pays the bill? The effects of altered brood size on parental and nestling physiology Emily Cornelius Ruhs, François Vézina, Morgan A. Walker, & William H. Karasov Article first published online: 4 OCT 2019 Journal of Ornithology DOI: 10.1007/s10336-019-01715-1 ABSTRACT: Current life history theory suggests that during times of extreme energetic demand, animals may […]

Dr. Robert Walker talks Tipping Points in the Amazon with BBC’s PM Programme

Posted on September 13, 2019

Dr. Robert Walker spoke about Tipping Points in the Amazon with Jonny Dymond on the BBC’s PM Programme. Listen to the whole show or scrub forward (Dr. Walker’s interview starts 41 minutes into the show).

Dr. Robert Walker’s #RedditAMA on the #Amazon

Posted on August 28, 2019

UF Geography Professor Dr. Robert Walker recently hosted a Reddit AMA on the Amazon. Take a look at what he had to say and join the conversation!

Graduate Student Poster Presentation

Posted on April 12, 2019

This week’s Geography Colloquium featured some of our current Master’s students presenting their research in a poster session: Megan Black presented Post-restoration analysis of bed morphology of the Lower Kissimmee River, Florida. Michael […]

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