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“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...

🎉David Russell successfully defended his PhD dissertation on conflict networks in Africa. Congratulations, Dr. Russell!

🥳 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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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...

🎉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!

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

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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NEW - Checkpoints, transport networks, and armed conflicts. Towards a relational approach by Dr. Olivier Walther www.diis.dk/en/research/...

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/...

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.”

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...

SEER Lab and GeoDi Lab have combined resources to bring two new drones into the remote sensing, biogeography, and medical geography research programs

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...

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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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...

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!

We are very happy to announce that Audrey Culver Smith successfully defended her dissertation today. Congratulations, Audrey!

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...

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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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.

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.

NEW PAPER - Mobility resilience to compounding disruptions: Power outages and social events, by Zeyu He and Yujie Hu www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Dr. Jason Blackburn, Department Chair, delivers keynote address at the Hawaii American Society for Microbiology Spring 2026 Meeting at the University of Hawaii Manoa.

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...

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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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

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...

🥳 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...

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...

🥳 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.