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EMERGE NASA Data Hackathon

February 11, 2026

On January 31, 2026, UF’s Geospatial Digital Informatics (GeoDI) Lab hosted the EMERGE NASA Data Hackathon at Marston Science Library, bringing together students, researchers, library staff, and community members to transform real environmental data into tools for public health decision-making. 13 teams competed across 5 tracks (Beginner to Advanced). The hackathon is funded by NASA […]

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EMERGE NASA Data Hackathon turns environmental data into action

January 15, 2026

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Dr. Yang selected for UF Global Fellows Program

December 4, 2025

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NASA-supported EMERGE hackathon

October 1, 2025

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Featured Publications

Standing dead trees and associated park asset wildfire vulnerability in Yellowstone National Park

January 22, 2025

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Picture of doctor Di Yang wearing an orange coat. The background is a winter scene with a lot of snow and pine trees on the side of a mountain.

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Dr. Di Yang to Join UF Geography Faculty This Fall

February 6, 2024

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Featured Publications

Linking forest management to surrounding lands: a citizen-based approach towards the regional understanding of land-use transitions

August 18, 2023

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GARPTools: R software for data preparation and model evaluation of GARP models

October 18, 2021

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Alumni Adventures: Dr. Yang Yang

January 4, 2021

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Latest SEER Lab and QDEC Lab publication defines sex-specific anthrax risk for elk

October 12, 2020

Tagged anthrax Blackburn Cervus canadensis disease risk elk habitat use MedGeo resource selection function Ryan sex-specific The Journal of Wildlife Management Yang

Sex-Specific Elk Resource Selection during the Anthrax Risk Period

October 1, 2020

Tagged anthrax Blackburn Cervus canadensis disease risk elk Faculty Publication Graduate Publication habitat use MedGeo QDEC Lab resource selection function Ryan SEER Lab sex-specific The Journal of Wildlife Management Yang

Exploring environmental coverages of species: a new variable contribution estimation methodology for rulesets from the genetic algorithm for rule-set prediction

May 12, 2020

Tagged Blackburn ecological niche Ecological niche modeling ecological niche models ecological niches Faculty Publication GARP MedGeo Median range PeerJ Physiological mechanisms Prevalence Spatial prediction Toxostoma rufum Variable contribution Variable selection Yang

Latest SEER Lab publication introduces novel variable selection method for ecological niche modeling

May 12, 2020

Tagged Blackburn ecological niche ecological niche models Faculty Publication invasive species MedGeo pathogens vectors Yang

A Metacoupling Framework for Exploring Transboundary Watershed Management

March 2, 2020

Tagged Africa coupled human and natural systems Graduate Publication Limpopo River watershed Merz metacoupling sustainability telecoupling transboundary watersheds watershed Yang

A Healthy Park Needs Healthy Vegetation – The Story of Gorongosa National Park in the 21st Century

February 3, 2020

Tagged Africa Child conservation Faculty Publication Gorongosa Gorongosa National Park Herrero Khatami NDVI remote sensing savannas Southworth vegetation dynamics vegetation persistence Waylen Yang

Announcing The Navi-Gator, Issue 2!

November 7, 2019

Geography Colloquium: Drone Mapping for Coastal Seagrass Monitoring and Citizen Science

October 9, 2019

Tagged citizen science Citizen Science GIS Geography Colloquium GIS UFGC University of Central Florida Yang

Congratulations to our new PhDs! #PhDone

August 9, 2019

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Geography Colloquium: Multi-scale Modeling for Infectious Disease Transmissions – Exploring two Indirectly Transmitted Pathogens in Southwestern Montana

February 1, 2019

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GeoGators Fight Breast Cancer with a Big Pink Volleyball

December 6, 2018

Tagged Big Pink Volleyball tournament GatorGood Good Kshirsagar McKay Smith Yang

Interpolation of Groundwater Depth Based on Data Assimilation

April 27, 2017

Tagged China co-Kriging cooperative Kriging Dengkou County EnKF Graduate Publication groundwater NDVI Northwest China Transactions of the Chinese Society of Agricultural Machinery water management Yang

Summer Course: GEO2200 Physical Geography

March 30, 2017

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Geography Colloquium: Forest Mosaics – Spatial Forest Management Patterns from Stands to Regional Scales in Southeastern U.S. Coastal Plain and Piedmont

February 6, 2017

Tagged forest Geography Colloquium GIS land management piedmont remote sensing UFGC Yang

Market accessibility and hotel prices in the Caribbean: The moderating effect of quality-signaling factors

March 21, 2016

Tagged 2016 graduate publication Caribbean Graduate Publication Mueller tourism Yang

Women in STEM is strong in Geography!

December 17, 2015

Tagged Antunes Carvalho Castro Engstrom Fu Hall Herrero Matyas McDade-Gordon Mossa Muir Nekorchuk parks Ryan Sabo Simmons Smith Southworth Women in Geography Yan Yang Zhou Zick

Dr. Yang Yang recognized for research excellence

October 20, 2015

Tagged economic geography Fik research excellence Temple University Yang