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The Department of Geography at the University of Florida works on geospatial AI, medical geography, earth systems, conservation and conflict geog.ufl.edu

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UF Geography @ufgeog.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
New Nature study co-led by Dr. @sjryan3.bsky.social reveals human impact on global patterns of emerging infectious diseases www.nature.com/articles/s41...
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The anthropogenic fingerprint on emerging infectious diseases - Nature
Emerging infectious disease outbreak risks are ubiquitous worldwide, and highest in landscapes where people, livestock and fragmented natural ecosystems coexist, but detection and data ...
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UF Geography @ufgeog.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
Are high-income countries vulnerable to drought? A review, Johanna Engström, Kevin Ash, Erin Mariotti and Liang Mao iopscience.iop.org/article/10.1...
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UF Geography @ufgeog.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
NEW - Network motifs reveal mobility disruption during Hurricane Ian, by Zeyu He and Yujie Hu www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
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UF Geography @ufgeog.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
NEW - The “ELDERDES” model: how older adults' adoption of digital environment solutions improves residential experiences, health outcomes, and enables independent living, by Dr. Stephen M. Golant www.frontiersin.org/journals/pub...
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UF Geography @ufgeog.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
NEW - Land-Cover Dynamics in a Miombo Woodland Landscape: A Multi-Scale Machine Learning Analysis of the Niassa Special Reserve (2000–2024), by Jessica Striley, Jane Southworth, Brian Child and David Keellings www.mdpi.com/2073-445X/15...
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UF Geography @ufgeog.bsky.social · 27/08/2026
A warm welcome to UF Geography, Dr. David Beilman and Dr. Kyle Redican!
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UF Geography @ufgeog.bsky.social · 27/08/2026
NEW - The past, present and future of dams in the Southeastern U.S., by Drs. Johanna Engstrӧm, Joann Mossa & Sarah Praskievicz link.springer.com/article/10.1...
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UF Geography @ufgeog.bsky.social · 27/08/2026
Dr. Katy Serafin has received the National Science Foundation Faculty Early Career Development Award! news.clas.ufl.edu/faculty-earn... Congratulations!
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UF Geography @ufgeog.bsky.social · 18/08/2026
Many congrats on your PhD degree, Jawata, David, Tierney and Anuska!
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UF Geography @ufgeog.bsky.social · 18/08/2026
Congratulations, Dr. Jawata Saba, Dr. David Russell, Dr. Tierney Shimansky and Dr. Anuska Narayanan! We are so proud of you all!
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UF Geography @ufgeog.bsky.social · 06/08/2026
GeoGators Airin Akter and Michelle Ruiz participated in the NSF NCAR Graduate Visitor Program in Boulder, Colorado, from July 27–31
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UF Geography @ufgeog.bsky.social · 06/08/2026
NEW - The spatial structure of West African livestock trade networks, by GeoGator Lacey Harris-Coble, Andrea Apolloni, Asma Mesdour and Olivier Walther authors.elsevier.com/c/1nZB1Wf-BX...
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UF Geography @ufgeog.bsky.social · 22/07/2026
The annual number of mosquito disease days has increased in nearly all U.S. cities analyzed by Climate Central. Dr. @sjryan3.bsky.social contributed to this new report which analyzes mosquito-borne diseases in 293 cities from 1970-2025 www.climatecentral.org/climate-matt...
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UF Geography @ufgeog.bsky.social · 20/07/2026
TV20 interviewed Dr. @sjryan3.bsky.social to discuss why Alachua County may expect more West Nile virus cases www.wcjb.com/2026/07/19/a...
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Alachua County may expect more West Nile virus cases, UF professor says
TV20’s Kristin Chase sat down with University of Florida professor of medical geography Sadie Ryan to discuss emerging cases in Alachua County.
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UF Geography @ufgeog.bsky.social · 17/07/2026
“Maps must be reimagined to better describe how things move, how places change over time, and how people experience the world”, write GeoGators Olivier Walther and Steven Radil in their review of "Free the Map" and "Radical Cartography" www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
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UF Geography @ufgeog.bsky.social · 16/07/2026
🎉David Russell successfully defended his PhD dissertation on conflict networks in Africa. Congratulations, Dr. Russell!
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UF Geography @ufgeog.bsky.social · 13/07/2026
🥳 NEW!! Routledge Handbook of African Borderlands, recently published by GeoGator Olivier Walther, Inocent Moyo and Isabella Soi www.routledge.com/Routledge-Ha...
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UF Geography @ufgeog.bsky.social · 13/07/2026
NEW - Spatio-temporal sensitivity of healthcare accessibility: Insights from a system dynamics model, by Patrick Danso and Dr. Liang Mao www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
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UF Geography @ufgeog.bsky.social · 30/06/2026
🎉Drs. Katy Serafin and Berry Wen have been promoted to Associate Professor and granted tenure, and Mr. Stephen Mullens has been promoted to Associate Instructional Professor. Congratulations to all of you!
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UF Geography @ufgeog.bsky.social · 12/06/2026
We are proud to announce that Mostafa Rezaali has won a NASA Lifelines fellowship for his project “Using physics-informed generative AI to predict heatwaves 2x faster than traditional methods across the Pacific Northwest and continental United States”. Congratulations! nasalifelines.org
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NASA Lifelines - NASA Lifelines
Join collaborators from around the world innovating new ways to use Earth observation and remote sensing to strengthen humanitarian action.
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UF Geography @ufgeog.bsky.social · 10/06/2026
NEW - Checkpoints, transport networks, and armed conflicts. Towards a relational approach by Dr. Olivier Walther www.diis.dk/en/research/...
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UF Geography @ufgeog.bsky.social · 08/06/2026
Gainesville is one of the 50 cities in the world with the highest number of "star" scientists, according to this new paper by Andrés Rodríguez-Pose, Leiboyu Xiang and Neil Lee published in Transactions of the Institute of British Geographers rgs-ibg.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
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UF Geography @ufgeog.bsky.social · 08/06/2026
Our colleague @sjryan3.bsky.social was interviewed by Prevention magazine. “When we catch a bunch of mosquitoes, we don’t find very high rates of infection,” says Dr. Ryan. “The risk comes because of how many times people get bitten—and it only takes one bite.”
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UF Geography @ufgeog.bsky.social · 08/06/2026
Dr. Cynthia Simmons will be giving a talk at the Federal University of Pará, titled “Indigenous Conservation: Scaling Up from Territory to the Amazon Basin”, June 10, 2:00 PM EST prointer.ufpa.br/index.php?op...
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UF Geography @ufgeog.bsky.social · 25/05/2026
SEER Lab and GeoDi Lab have combined resources to bring two new drones into the remote sensing, biogeography, and medical geography research programs
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UF Geography @ufgeog.bsky.social · 21/05/2026
Outside Magazine published "These States Are Going to Have the Worst Mosquito Problems This Year" and interviewed @sjryan3.bsky.social about the interactions between mosquitoes and climate change, and what the coming El Nino may mean for that mosquito risk www.outsideonline.com/health/welln...
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10 States Facing the Worst Mosquito Surges This Summer
The 2026 bug boom is here. Don’t let pesky mosquitoes derail your outdoor plans this season.
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UF Geography @ufgeog.bsky.social · 14/05/2026
The @geographers.bsky.social has just released its report on the status of women and underrepresented groups in Geography, co-authored by @rockyrivers.bsky.social and colleagues www.aag.org/wp-content/u...
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UF Geography @ufgeog.bsky.social · 30/04/2026
Congratulations to our new PhDs Dr. Aaron King, Dr. Audrey Smith, Dr. Austin Britton, Dr. Ian Pshea-Smith, Dr. Gavriella Hecht, Dr. Zainab Ali, and Dr. Zeyu He!
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UF Geography @ufgeog.bsky.social · 29/04/2026
We are very happy to announce that Audrey Culver Smith successfully defended her dissertation today. Congratulations, Audrey!
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UF Geography @ufgeog.bsky.social · 29/04/2026
West African states respond to insurgencies by building city walls and fortifying borders. While these fortifications provide short-term protection, they can also deepen rural insecurity and civilian vulnerability anl.geog.ufl.edu/fortified-la...
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The resurgence of fortified landscapes in West Africa
West African states respond to insurgencies by building city walls and fortifying borders, balancing protection with rural vulnerabilities.
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UF Geography @ufgeog.bsky.social · 23/04/2026
Two generations of UF Medical Geographers expanding the Gator Nation for public health. Today, Dr. Gavriella Hecht met up with Dr. Ian Kracalik at the CDC EIS 2026 Conference in Atlanta, Georgia.
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UF Geography @ufgeog.bsky.social · 22/04/2026
NSF NEON’s annual summer airborne observation campaign is underway! Dr. Yang arranged a tour of the aircraft and sensor payload and is planning a student tour during next year’s campaign.
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UF Geography @ufgeog.bsky.social · 16/04/2026
NEW PAPER - Mobility resilience to compounding disruptions: Power outages and social events, by Zeyu He and Yujie Hu www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
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UF Geography @ufgeog.bsky.social · 16/04/2026
Dr. Jason Blackburn, Department Chair, delivers keynote address at the Hawaii American Society for Microbiology Spring 2026 Meeting at the University of Hawaii Manoa.
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UF Geography @ufgeog.bsky.social · 15/04/2026
New blog - Armed conflict tends to affect localities differently, as they pass through different stages during their existence, argue Steven Radil and Olivier Walther in Irregular Warfare Initiative irregularwarfare.org/articles/con...
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Conflict Has Memory: Why Local Wars Follow Distinct Trajectories Why Local Wars Follow Distinct Trajectories: A New Framework.
Local violence is not just a sequence of incidents. Conflict has memory. Learn how analyzing distinct conflict trajectories can prevent strategic overreaction and improve irregular warfare planning.
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UF Geography @ufgeog.bsky.social · 08/04/2026
Seminar on Indigenous Oral History, Knowledge, and Science in the Constellation of Ecologies and Climate hosted by the Department of Geography, UF Water Institute, and Florida Climate Institute, April 17 @ 3:00 PM, Dauer Hall 215. Our speaker will be Dr. Farina King, University of Oklahoma
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UF Geography @ufgeog.bsky.social · 07/04/2026
NEW PAPER - Incorporating learned geospatial embeddings to deep image prior for inpainting cloud areas in remotely sensed images, by Shuai Li, Yaqian He, Di Yang, Yichan Li and Wei Liu www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
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UF Geography @ufgeog.bsky.social · 06/04/2026
🥳 Century-Scale Earth Observation: Systematic Review of Georeferencing Methods for Historical Aerial and Satellite Imagery, by Wei Liu and Dr. Di Yang www.mdpi.com/2072-4292/18...
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UF Geography @ufgeog.bsky.social · 06/04/2026
NEW - The impact of land cover change-climate interactions on ecosystem productivity in the Arctic-Boreal region, by Shuai Li, Di Yang, Yaqian He, Nicholas Parazoo, Wei Liu www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
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UF Geography @ufgeog.bsky.social · 01/04/2026
🥳 Dr. Di Yang has been chosen as the recipient of a 2026 Affordable Access Award in the Innovation & Design category. Congratulations! The awards recognize exemplary and innovative instructors who advocate for their students through the creation and adoption of affordable course materials.
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UF Geography @ufgeog.bsky.social · 30/03/2026
Recently published in Urban Geography - Urban pulse: land reclamation as climate urbanism, by Sophie Webber, Alan Wiig and Henrico Saeran www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
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UF Geography @ufgeog.bsky.social · 12/03/2026
Join us at the @geographers.bsky.social AAG Annual Meeting in San Francisco from March 17-21, 2026! geog.ufl.edu/2026/03/12/a...
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UF Geography @ufgeog.bsky.social · 09/03/2026
We had an exciting Evening of Excellence on campus last Friday. Our sincere congratulations to our amazing students!
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UF Geography @ufgeog.bsky.social · 06/03/2026
NEW DIIS report - "Wars over checkpoints. Nine theses on the politics of roadblocks in conflict-affected borderlands", coauthored by Peer Schouten, GeoGator Olivier Walther et al. www.diis.dk/en/research/...
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UF Geography @ufgeog.bsky.social · 05/03/2026
Have you ever wondered how to power a city like Gainesville? That and many other questions were answered when Dr. Johanna Engström and the students of "The Future of Energy" visited Deerhaven, Gainesville's largest power plant, last week.
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UF Geography @ufgeog.bsky.social · 02/03/2026
NEW PAPER in GigaScience - MIReVTD, a Minimum Information Standard for Reporting Vector Trait Data, by @sjryan3.bsky.social, Catherine Lippi and colleagues academic.oup.com/gigascience/...
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UF Geography @ufgeog.bsky.social · 25/02/2026
JOB - The Department of Geography at the University of Florida invites applications for a full-time, 12-month, non-tenure track Lecturer/Assistant Instructional Professor position in GIScience and Geographic Artificial Intelligence (GeoAI) explore.jobs.ufl.edu/en-us/job/53...
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UF Geography @ufgeog.bsky.social · 23/02/2026
We are extremely proud of undergraduate Ava Johnson, who presented her senior honors thesis research at FSG this month, and won first place undergraduate student talk. QDEC Lab is also immensely pleased that Neha Senthilkumar, undergraduate researcher, won honorable mention for her poster
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UF Geography @ufgeog.bsky.social · 23/02/2026
NEW - Contrasting Changes in Rainy Season Length, Rainfall Frequency, and Intensity Across Eastern Africa, by Jesse Kisembe, Dr. Berry Wen, Dr. Caroline Wainwright, Dr. Chris Funk, Ronald Odongo and Weikang Qian journals.ametsoc.org/view/journal...
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UF Geography @ufgeog.bsky.social · 23/02/2026
FSG 2026 - Ronald Odongo, Jesse Kisembe, and Weikang Qian presented their research on climate variability and extreme weather events at the Florida Society of Geographers annual meeting this weekend in Gainesville
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