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Dr. Fausto Sarmiento
A Year of Titles: Dr. Fausto Sarmiento receives Fulbright U.S. Global Scholar Award

Fausto O. Sarmiento, professor of mountain science and director of the Neotropical Montology Collaboratory, at the Department of Geography of the University of Georgia, has received a Fulbright U.S. Global Scholar Award to Austria, Japan and Chile. Sarmiento will research and lecture at the Institute for Interdisciplinary Mountain Research of the Austrian Academy of Sciences, the World Heritage Studies UNESCO Chair of Cultural Heritage and…

The SHEP monitoring software used in real time
The Savannah Harbor Expansion Project

Dr. Sergio Bernardes from the Center for Geospatial Research (CGR) is training federal and state agencies on the use of geospatial tools to monitor the performance of mitigation features associated with large engineering projects. The series of workshops offered by Dr. Bernardes focus on the ongoing Savannah Harbor Expansion Project (SHEP) and include the monitoring of fish populations using capture/tagging, spatio-temporal tracking of sturgeon…


Ten undergraduates receive honors in the department

On April 20, 2022, the Department of Geography celebrated ten of its top performing undergraduate students for their academic excellence and involvement in the community during their undergraduate years. Congratulations to the following students on winning these departmental awards: Merle C. Prunty, Jr. Undergraduate Scholarship – Killian McSweeney Killian McSweeney (left) receiving the Merle C. Prunty, Jr. Scholarship from Professor John Knox…

Will O'Neil providing a weather forecast for the Newnan tornado on March 25, 2021.
One year following the killer EF-4 Newnan tornado

March 25, 2022 marks one year after the killer EF-4 tornado tore through Newnan, GA. The AthensGaWeather broadcasting team, composed of Atmospheric Sciences undergraduates in the Geography department, was one of the many broadcasting studios to livestream coverage of the tornado, saving the lives of at least two people in the Newnan area, according to the people themselves. "My husband was already asleep when the sirens went off, and I heard…

Dr. Marcus Williams seen here observing PM2.5 concentration levels on a small handheld measurement device.
Research meteorologist and first African American male Ph.D. from UGA Geography, Dr. Marcus Williams

The Fort Stewart Fire Research Campaign was an integrative research effort that collected data on Fire Behavior, Fuels, and Smoke during a series of prescribed burns at Fort Stewart. Dr. Marcus Williams, a Research Meteorologist at the USFS Athens Fire Lab, was the discipline lead for Micrometeorology and a member of the Smoke measurement discipline. He is seen here observing PM2.5 concentration levels on a small handheld measurement device. PM2…
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