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Dr. Fausto Sarmiento Awarded Denali Recent Accomplishment Award

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…

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Dr. Suzanne Birch Hosts a New 20- Episode Lecture Series

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 role of climate and environmental change in driving these…

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Dr. Gengchen Mai Awarded 2023 AAG Nystrom Award

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."…

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Dr. Andrew Herod Awarded Guggenheim Fellowship

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 Today…

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Dr. Deepak Mishra Contributes to New Study on Global Water Quality Monitoring

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 the…
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