Stories From The Field

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.

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.

Elephant

An Elephant Never Forgets: How GIS Helped Save a Playground Pachyderm

If there is one thing that elementary school students around the world can agree on, it’s the wonderful feeling of hearing the recess bell. After quietly sitting and learning in class, it signals freedom to run, laugh, and play with friends, usually outside in the fresh air.

Private Community Conservation Areas in the Peruvian cloud forest

Effectiveness of Communal Privately Protected Areas in Montane Cloud Forests of Northern Peru

 

Southern Appalachian Mountains

Distinctive connectivities of near-stream and watershed-wide land uses differentially degrade rural aquatic ecosystems

UGA Geography's David Leigh and a team of researchers review and synthesize spatially extensive studies of oligotrophic mountain streams in the rural Southern Appalachian Mountains, concluding that rural land-use activities significantly degrade water quality through altered and mostly enhanced l