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Several Geography graduate students selected for UGA Graduate School Awards

This fall, several of our graduate students received awards from the Graduate School!  Ashley Cornish, our Ph.D. candidate, received the 2026 Graduate School Dissertation Completion Award. This award is given to outstanding doctoral students in their final year of study and allows students to devote time to the completion of their dissertation by relieving them of departmental teaching or research duties.  Read more about it…

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Dr. Fastovich named a 2026-2028 Lilly Teaching Fellow

Congratulations to Dr. David Fastovich who has been named a 2026-2028 Lilly Teaching Fellow. The Lilly Teaching Fellows Program is a two-year, cohort-based fellowship at UGA for early-career, tenure-track assistant professors.   “What drew me to it is rooted in my own experience as a student. My undergraduate education, especially the large lecture classes I took early on, is what ignited my passion for physical geography and set me…

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Dr. Shepherd selected as a 2027 Honorary Member of the American Meteorological Society

Congratulations to Dr. Marshall Shepherd on being selected as a 2027 Honorary Member of the American Meteorological Society, the highest honor the Society bestows. As stated in the AMS Constitution, “Honorary Members shall be persons of acknowledged preeminence in the atmospheric or related oceanic or hydrologic sciences, either through their own contributions to the sciences or their application or through furtherance of the advance of…

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Masters Student Max Appelbaum Receives SRNL Poster Award

Max Appelbaum, masters student and Graduate Research Assistant in the department of geography/ atmospheric sciences has received an award at this year’s Department of Energy Savannah River National Research Laboratory (SRNL) BSRA Research Poster Session. Appelbaum’s poster, titled “Remote Sensing of the Surface Urban Heat Island to Inform In-Situ Atmospheric Observations" was named best in show. The award was judged by staff scientists across…

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Marshall Shepherd Co-Authors New Climate Change Communication Principles

An American Academy of Arts and Sciences (AAAS) communicationworking group, co-chaired by UGA Atmospheric Sciences DirectorMarshall Shepherd, has published a white paper and brief on effectiveclimate change communication strategies. These reports are part of theacademy’s new Commission on Accelerating Climate Action Initiative,which is currently in the process of being rolled out. According to the AAAS, “The CommunicationWorking Group of the…
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