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UF Geography @ufgeog.bsky.social · 7d

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

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University of Florida Research @ufresearch.bsky.social · 9d

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.

A woman with long brown hair sits at a desk in an office, smiling at the camera. She wears a blue shirt and is positioned in front of dual computer monitors displaying maps. The office has yellow walls and features a window with natural light.

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UF Geography @ufgeog.bsky.social · 12d

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...

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UF Geography @ufgeog.bsky.social · 16d

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

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UF Geography @ufgeog.bsky.social · 19d

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

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UF Geography @ufgeog.bsky.social · 19d

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...

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UF Geography @ufgeog.bsky.social · 20d

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

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UF Geography @ufgeog.bsky.social · 21d

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...

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Prof Sadie J. Ryan (she/her) @sjryan3.bsky.social · 21d

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

Colin Carlson @colincarlson.bsky.social · 21d

🚨 NEW: Climate change is already causing 30,000 deaths per year - a global annual economic loss of $100-350B USD - but the true damage is probably 10x higher. Out TODAY in Nature Climate Change: the first systematic look at the science of "health impact attribution" 🔓 www.nature.com/articles/s41...

"Health losses attributed to anthropogenic climate change," a brief communication in the journal Nature Climate Change. There's a map showing regions of the world, and pie charts of relevant studies as they apply to different health impacts like "heat-related deaths" and "maternal and child health"

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UF Geography @ufgeog.bsky.social · 27d

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/...

UF Geography @ufgeog.bsky.social · 27d

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...

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UF Geography @ufgeog.bsky.social · 28d

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/...

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UF Geography @ufgeog.bsky.social · Sep 8

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/

CFP AAG 2026 – Geography and civil war

The goal of this session of the American Association of Geographers is to examine how space shapes civil wars.

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UF Geography @ufgeog.bsky.social · Aug 13

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...

Southeast coast on alert for new tropical trouble | Latest Weather Clips | FOX Weather

Stephen Mullens, Meteorology Professor at the University of Florida, spoke about the chances for tropical development off the Southeast coast by the end of thi

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UF Geography @ufgeog.bsky.social · Aug 13

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-...

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UF Geography @ufgeog.bsky.social · Aug 13

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...

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UF Geography @ufgeog.bsky.social · Aug 13

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...

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UF Geography @ufgeog.bsky.social · Aug 12

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

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UF Geography @ufgeog.bsky.social · Aug 4

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...

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UF Geography @ufgeog.bsky.social · Jul 22

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....

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UF Geography @ufgeog.bsky.social · Jul 21

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

UF Geography @ufgeog.bsky.social · Jul 18

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

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UF Geography @ufgeog.bsky.social · Jul 17

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...

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UF Geography @ufgeog.bsky.social · Jul 17

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....

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UF Geography @ufgeog.bsky.social · Jul 2

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/...