Incoming faculty member Dr. Nick Magliocca, who is currently an Assistant Research Professor at the National Socio-Environmental Synthesis Center (SESYNC), was recently named a recipient of the ABM17 Star Award. […]
Category: Departmental News
Geography Gazette published
For the first time in many years, the Department of Geography is proud to produce a newsletter updating faculty, staff, students, and alumni about happenings within the department. If you […]
Pair of Graduate Students Win Field Study Awards
Graduate students Jordan Cissell and Brenna Sweetman both recently received student field study awards. Cissell’s award comes from the International Union for the Conservation of Nature’s (IUCN) Crocodile Specialist Group. […]
Student team wins first place at SECU Academic Conference
A team of students affiliated with Dr. Sagy Cohen‘s Surface Dynamics Modeling Lab took home first place at the SECU Academic Conference’s Campus Waters Matters Challenge in Starkville, Miss., yesterday. […]
Undergraduate student selected for prestigious internship
Undergraduate major Kimberly Brothers was recently selected to participate in an internship as part of the Significant Opportunities in Atmospheric Research and Science (SOARS) program through the National Center for […]
Stone and Cohen co-author paper
Former graduate student Monica Stone and Dr. Sagy Cohen recently had an article published in the journal Natural Hazards & Earth System Sciences. The paper examines the impact of hurricanes […]
Graduate student paper in Forests
Graduate students Scott Ford and Jonathan Kleinman co-authored a paper with Dr. Justin Hart in the journal Forests. The article examines the spatial patterns of canopy disturbance in a multi-cohort […]
Professor published about racial disparities in welfare
Dr. Joe Weber co-authored an article with Tryone Cheng from the UA School of Social Work that was recently published in Journal of Social Service Research. The paper investigates racial […]
Professor published about change in American freeway networks
Dr. Joe Weber recently had an article published in the Journal of Transport Geography titled, “Continuity and change in American urban freeway networks.” The article compared data from Yellow Book […]
Former graduate student receives thesis award
Former B.S. and M.S. student Lauren Cox was named the winner of The University of Alabama Graduate College Outstanding Master’s Thesis. Cox’s thesis is titled “Effects of an Intermediate-Scale Wind Event […]