Our NASA-supported EMERGE program successfully hosted a community hackathon last Saturday at North Lauderdale Library. Led by Dr. Di Yang, participants transformed NASA satellite data into tools for tracking mosquitos and environmental health

Medical geography Professor at @ufgeog.bsky.social, @sjryan3.bsky.social is leading efforts to predict disease risks and guide public health as mosquito habitats shift due to climate change, underscoring the vital link between planetary changes and future health.

Considering a Minor in Geography? Check out our new program in GeoAI and Geographic Analysis at the University of Florida geog.ufl.edu/programs/und...

Buzz Off. Fighting back against the world’s deadliest animal. Professor @sjryan3.bsky.social is part of a group of UF researchers who are fighting mosquito-borne diseases around the world. Read her full interview in this month's Explore Magazine explore.research.ufl.edu/buzz-off.html

OPEN ACCESS in The Lancet Planetary Health: Priority climate and health modelling needs, by @sjryan3.bsky.social and colleagues www.thelancet.com/journals/lan...

NEW - The attribution of human health outcomes to climate change: transdisciplinary practical guidance, recently published in Climatic Change by @sjryan3.bsky.social and colleagues link.springer.com/article/10.1...

🎉Audrey Smith Wins 2nd Place in CAS "Lens on Africa" Graduate Research Video Competition! vimeo.com/1110410355/9...

NEW in Nature Climate Change - Health losses attributed to anthropogenic climate change, by GeoGators Catherine Lippi, @sjryan3.bsky.social and colleagues www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Great to see our new paper "Health losses attributed to anthropogenic climate change" out in print today in @natclimate.nature.com, which builds on our landscaping project on climate-health attribution a couple of years ago, funded by @wellcometrust.bsky.social

New review - Lacey Harris-Coble is reviewing Tor Benjaminsen's latest book "Climate Security and Climate Justice: Recognizing Context in the Sahel" in African Studies Quarterly journals.flvc.org/ASQ/article/...

Join Dr. Di Yang and her colleagues for a one-day, hands-on hackathon and data visualization showcase using real environmental and public health data from NASA’s GLOBE Observer platform Saturday, September 27, 2025 geoemerge.com/hackathon-da...

Dr. Di Yang is coordinating a webinar series on Teaching with EMERGE & GLOBE Mission Mosquito with UF students on 17 and 24 September. Register for these coming events here: www.globe.gov/news-events/...

CFP AAG 2026 - Geography and civil war. @geographers.bsky.social Annual Meeting, San Francisco, March 17-21, 2026. Paper session organized by Olivier Walther and David Russell. Proposed titles and abstracts and/or expressions of interest due October 15, 2025 anl.geog.ufl.edu/aag-2026/

Assistant Instructional Professor of Meteorology Stephen Mullens spoke about the chances for tropical development off the Southeast coast by the end of this week www.foxweather.com/watch/fmc-41...

UF Geography launches OmniGlobe for immersive, 3D learning. The OmniGlobe is a "dynamic leap forward in how we teach geography, earth science and atmospheric systems through immersive, hands-on visualization”, said Chair Jane Southworth news.clas.ufl.edu/uf-launches-...

NEW PAPER - Temporal and Spatial Analysis of Freezing Rain Regimes over Eastern North America, by Austin Britton and Dr. Esther Mullens journals.ametsoc.org/view/journal...

The call for papers for the 80th Annual Meeting of the Southeastern Division of the Association of American Geographers (SEDAAG) in Lexington, Kentucky is open sedaag.org/2025-meeting...

NEW - Drought Vulnerability in South America, by Emma Silverman and Johanna Engstrom www.mdpi.com/2073-4441/17...

NEW - Assessing Model Trade-Offs in Agricultural Remote Sensing: A Review of Machine Learning and Deep Learning Approaches Using Almond Crop Mapping, by Mashoukur Rahaman and colleagues www.mdpi.com/2072-4292/17...

NEW - Drought to Flood to Drought: A Review of Definitions of Precipitation Whiplash Events, What Causes Them and Their Impacts Over the Continental United States, by Esther Mullens and Johanna Engström rmets.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....

NEW - Constructing the commuting backbone network dataset for the United States, by Jinpeng Wang & Yujie Hu www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Always something new happening in UF Geography! Setting up our new Omniglobe classroom for Fall

Our new paper in Environmental Research Letters reveals how recent land-cover shifts across the Arctic–Boreal region are already cooling daily high-temperature extremes yet intensifying multi-day drought risk iopscience.iop.org/article/10.1...

The GeoDI Lab has just published a landmark study in IEEE JSTARS that transforms de-classified 1960s CORONA high resolution spy satellite imagery—augmented with modern DEM data—into high-accuracy historical land-use maps via a dual-branch convolutional network ieeexplore.ieee.org/abstract/doc....

We are excited to share that Mostafa Rezaali has been selected for the NSF LEAP Summer Momentum Fellowship, which includes a 10-week residency at Columbia University this summer leap.columbia.edu/education-2/...

NEW - Arriving at Airport City Manchester: “Exporting” and “Importing” the Enterprise Zone, Entrepreneurial Governance, and the Geopolitics of Economic Development, by Kevin Ward & Alan Wiig in the Annals of the @geographers.bsky.social www.tandfonline.com/doi/pdf/10.1...

Congratulations on your well-deserved tenure and promotion, Dr. Sounny-Slitine, Dr. Keellings, and Dr. @scatterazure.bsky.social!

We are thrilled to announce that Jesse Kisembe has been selected for funding through NASA’s Future Investigators in NASA Earth and Space Science and Technology (FINESST) program. This funding will support Jesse’s doctoral research on climate science and food security in the Horn of Africa

NEW - Land-cover classification in Addo Elephant National Park: Analyzing the impact of variables, classifiers, and object-based approach, by Mohammad Safaei, Jane Southworth, Cerian Gibbes, Hannah Herrero, Mashoukur Rahaman, Bewuket Tefera Jason K. Blackburn www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Spatial Patterns of Dengue Incidence in Nepal During Record Outbreaks in 2022 and 2023 - now published in Trop Med, led by @simrikbhandari.bsky.social! doi.org/10.4269/ajtm...

🎉Olivia Zhang has been awarded the prestigious poster prize at the 2025 Conference for Advancing Participatory Sciences (CAPS) held in Portland, Oregon, for her research presentation titled "Engaging Community Scientists in Mosquito Mapping."

In this UF AI Minute, Dr. Corene Matyas discusses how to use AI to decode rainfall and moisture, essential to understanding rapid storm intensification www.wuft.org/uf-ai-minute

We are pleased to announce that Professor Jason Blackburn has been appointed as Chair of the Department of Geography! geog.ufl.edu/faculty/blac...

NEW - Experiences of Women AAG Presidents: Leading Through Diverse Voices, by Wei Li, @rockyrivers.bsky.social, Barnali Dixon, Ann Oberhauser, Amy Rock, Selima Sultana, and Falguni Mukherjee www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.... @geographers.bsky.social

Transport-related violence is more intense and less spatially concentrated in West Africa, reflecting the expansion of local insurgencies, according to a new paper coauthored by @ojwalther.bsky.social, Steven Radil and Alexander Thurston www.tandfonline.com/eprint/RSU5V...

In this new policy note, Lacey Harris-Coble and Dr. @ojwalther.bsky.social examine how external shocks, such as border closures and pandemics, affect agricultural trade networks in West Africa geog.ufl.edu/2025/05/14/h...

NEW - Modeling Changes in Flow Dynamics From the Restoration of a Distributary Slough Along a Large Floodplain River, by Love Kumar, @rockyrivers.bsky.social and colleagues onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....

Professor Cynthia Simmons has received the prestigious Fulbright Distinguished Scholar award, Sustainability in Amazonia at the Federal University of Pará (UFPA) in Brazil geog.ufl.edu/2025/05/13/s...

Supported by the National Science Foundation, a UF team of researchers led by @uf-clas.bsky.social Department of @ufgeog.bsky.social Professor Corene Matyas, has identified the patterns of rain rates within storms and studied the moisture surrounding these storms. #NSF75

🎉PhD student Michelle Ruiz was selected for the Disaster Research Center’s CHEER summer research program that will take place in North Carolina www.drc.udel.edu/2025-summer-...

So proud of @simrikbhandari.bsky.social, walking today in graduation for her MSc from @ufgeog.bsky.social. Thanks for the fun selfie opportunity! Now relax a little before the next adventure.

Congratulations on successfully completing your PhD, Dr. Gabrielle Quadrado and Dr. Yue Jing!!

Celebrating 9 amazing years as Department Chair with Dr. Southworth and our grad students. Thank you for your leadership, mentorship, and for building such a spectacular community of geographers, Jane!

The NASA Lab led by Dr. Southworth uses Earth observations for interdisciplinary research focused on global environmental change and human-environment interactions geog.ufl.edu/the-nasa-lab/

The Geospatial Digital Informatics Lab led by Dr. Di Yang uses remote sensing to understand the relationships between humans, landscape patterns, and ecological processes geodi.geog.ufl.edu

The Quantitative Disease Ecology and Conservation (QDEC) Laboratory led by @sjryan3.bsky.social focuses on medical geography and ecology at the human interface, its implications for disease, conservation, sustainability, and wildlife management www.sadieryan.net

This month's Explore Magazine explains how Dr. Jason Blackburn from UF Geography and @epi.ufl.edu uses Artificial Intelligence to forecast the likelihood of anthrax outbreaks

NEW - How human–plant relations support Indigenous cultural revitalization and stewardship in the Ecuadorian Amazon, by Joel Correia, Cynthia Simmons and colleagues besjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/pdf/10.1...

Colloquium this week was a special one. Our Masters students presented their posters before graduating! Great job, everyone!

Our colleague Dr. Corene Matyas was named University of Florida Research Foundation Professor for 2025. UFRF Professorships are awarded to tenured faculty members with a distinguished, current record of research. Congratulations, Dr. Matyas! news.ufl.edu/2025/04/ufrf...