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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…

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. But in Victoria Falls, Zimbabwe, Baobab Primary School had a 10,000-pound problem that prevented students from leaving their classrooms in June 2018. It seemed that a male…

Private Community Conservation Areas in the Peruvian cloud forest
Effectiveness of Communal Privately Protected Areas in Montane Cloud Forests of Northern Peru

  Two researchers in the Geography department have recently published an article, alongside their team of researchers outside of the university, on private protected areas (PPA) in the cloud forests of Peru, specifically questioning the effectiveness of community PPA.       Ellen Delgado Florian (graduate student), Professor Fausto Sarmiento, and a team of researchers studied the effectiveness of four of the most…

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 landscape–stream connections, despite high forest retention. Some connections are controlled by near-stream land-use activities, whereas others are…
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