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University of Georgia Distinguished Professor of Geography and Atmospheric Sciences, Dr. J. Marshall Shepherd has been named the recipient of the prestigious 2023 Environmental Achievement Award. This accolade is presented annually by the Environmental Law Institute to individuals or organizations that have made notable contributions to environmental protection, conservation, and sustainability.

“Dr. Shepherd’s outstanding career and…

If you’re out and about in Athens this weekend, you may see some familiar faces on the front page of today’s Athens Banner Herald! For the past several months, students in Dr. Jerry Shannon’s Community GIS class have been collaborating with the Athens Housing Advocacy Team (AHAT) and other community members in order to conduct a comprehensive analysis of ACC’s eviction data. The goal of the collaborative effort is to better understand our…

Fausto Sarmiento, Professor of Mountain Science in UGA's Department of Geography has been awarded the Denali Recent Accomplishment Award during this year's American Association of Geographers (AAG) meeting in Denver, CO. This award is distributed annually by the AAG's Mountain Geography Specialty Group (MSGS) in recognition of "scholarly, applied or other significant contributions to Mountain Geography within the past three years that support…

Dr. Suzanne Birch, Professor of Geography and

Anthropology at UGA is the narrator and primary host for

the new streaming series "Early Humans, Ice Stone and

Survival." After more than a year in the making, the 20-

episode lecture series debuted in April on the streaming

service, Wonderium.

“The lectures span from our earliest origins in Africa to the emergence of agriculture,

examines the…

We are thrilled to announce that UGA Geography Professor, Dr. Gengchen Mai, has been awarded the 2023 AAG Nystrom award for his research: "Towards general-purpose representation learning of polygonal geometries." In 2022, Dr. Mai was honored with another AAG award, The William L. Garrison Award for Best Dissertation in Computational Geography for his dissertation, "Geographic Question Answering with Spatially-Explicit Machine Learning Models…

Last week, the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation announced the 2023 Guggenheim Fellowships. Of 2500+ applicants, 171 scientists, writers, scholars, and artists were selected, including UGA Distinguished Research Professor of Geography, Dr. Andrew Herod. Guggenheim Fellowships are awarded to those “who have demonstrated exceptional capacity for productive scholarship or exceptional creative ability in the arts.”

In a recent UGA…

UGA Geography professor, Associate Department Head, and advance. Small Satellite Research Laboratory Director Dr. Deepak Mishra has shared a new study alongside 76 co-authors from around the globe. The study "GLORIA - A globally representative hyperspectral in situ dataset for optical sensing of water quality" was first published in February 2023 in Nature Scientific Data. According to Dr. Mishra, the purpose of this research is to establish…

Dr. Fausto Sarmiento, UGA Geography professor and director of the Neotropical Montology Collaboratory, has authored a new book: "Montology Palimpsest: A Primer of Mountain Geographies." The new publication was recently featured in a UGA Today article by Alan Flurry: "With the ecological acceleration and the indigenous revival trend of the present, the need for critical views of the reality of mountain systems has become evident in academic…

An entirely plant based diet has long been suggested as the most environmentally friendly way to eat. However, new research from University of Georgia Geography professor Dr. Amy Trauger suggests that a diet of mostly plants and humanely raised meat is likely the most ethical way to eat with regard to the protection of human rights and our environment.

“There’s nothing sustainable about this plant-based model,” says Dr. Trauger. “It is…

Earlier this month, UGA Geography and Atmospheric Sciences professor Dr. John Knox announced the newly reorganized student-run meteorology and weather broadcast group, The Weather Dawgs. For nearly four and a half years, UGA Atmospheric Sciences majors have provided Athens and much of northern GA with comprehensive weather forecasting as "AthensGA Weather," the brainchild of UGA alumni Matt Daniel. Now, with full approval from UGA's Athletics…