Drs. Seth Appiah_Opoku and Joe Weber along with graduate student Will McWhorter have published a new article Health impacts of small-scale gold mining in Kenyasi, Ghana, on small-scale gold […]
Category: Departmental News
Cluster hire in Climate Change Decision Making (CCDM)
The University of Alabama, Department of Geography in collaboration with the Alabama Water Institute (AWI), seeks candidates for a cluster hire of three tenure-track appointments at the rank of Assistant […]
Geography awarded 2021-2022 Dean’s Diversity Award
The Department of Geography was recently announced as the recipient of the 2021-2022 Dean’s Diversity Award ($5,000), given to a Department that has demonstrated a commitment to Diversity. Citations for […]
Improving Mobility
Graduate student Emily Schnarre and faculty members Seth Appiah-Opoku and Joe Weber recently published a paper on “Improving mobility and infrastructural connectivity on college campus for commuting students: a case […]
Dr. Hobson Bryan
The department was recently informed of the sad news of the passing of our former colleague Dr. Hobson Bryan. Dr. Bryan retired in 2014 after serving for 20 years in […]
Perceptions of earthquake risks and knowledge about earthquake response among movement challenged persons in Dhaka city of Bangladesh
Authors Md Musfiqur RahmanBhuiya and WanyunShao Abstract Dhaka, Bangladesh is one Asian city that is at high risk of earthquakes. Persons with physical disabilities, particularly movement-challenged persons (MCPs), is […]
Weather Forecast Semiotics: Public Interpretation of Common Weather Icons
Authors: Jake Reed, Susan Jasko and Jason Senkbeil Abstract: Weather icons are some of the most frequently used visual tools meteorologists employ to communicate weather information. Previous research has […]
Geographers preserving Art of Joe Minter – Interdisciplinary work at its best
Joe Minter’s “African Village in America” has captured the mind of Eric Courchesne, Geospatial Services Manager for the University of Alabama Geography Department. According to a recent piece in […]
Dr. Bobby Wilson
We report the sad news that our former colleague Dr. Bobby Wilson has passed away August 25th, 2021. Many of you likely know of his stature in Geography. He is […]
Two Funded Ph.D. Assistantships in Agent-Based and/or Land-Use Change Modeling
Two Funded Ph.D. Assistantship Positions in Agent-Based and/or Land-Use Change Modeling The Laboratory for Human-Environment Interactions Analysis and Modeling (HEIMA), in the Department of Geography at the University of Alabama, […]