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UGA professor narrator for new disaster series

University of Georgia professor Marshall Shepherd is the narrator of a new video series released this week by NBC Learn and the National Science Foundation.


Research suggests severe weather will continue, be more variable

More tornadoes will be commonplace by 2080 as a result of a changing climate, according to a new study from UGA geography researchers.


Climatology Research Lab looks into the future of storms

Researchers from the department of geography recently published an unequivocal new study.  


Storm-tracking truck stops at UGA

The skies were clear and calm above Athens on Monday, but that didn’t stop about two dozen University of Georgia students from learning a bit about tracking hurricanes and tornadoes. Students in a weather processes class taught by UGA geography professor Marshall Shepherd gathered Monday afternoon around a huge truck rig idled in a UGA Intramural Fields parking lot. On a platform behind the rig, a radar dish steadily rotated, beaming and…


Georgia is the new California

If Matt Hauer has not already grabbed an audience’s attention during one of his presentations on demographic change in Georgia, he usually gets it with a single line: "Georgia is the new California." Hauer, the demographic specialist at the Carl Vinson Institute of Government, has been traveling the state giving versions of his speech to audiences from legislators to educators. With a desire to move beyond the dry numbers, projections and…
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