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Anne Chin Joins FSU as Department Chair and Harrison V. Chase Distinguished Professor of Geography
Anne Chin, Ph.D., joined FSU’s faculty as the Department of Geography’s new chair and the Harrison V. Chase Distinguished Professor of Geography on July 22, 2024.
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FSU Geography Researcher Leads NASA Study Examining Risks for Extreme Heat Illness
Every summer, up to 600 people in Miami-Dade County die from extreme heat. Florida State University Associate Professor Chris Uejio, Ph.D., is helping to keep people safe by identifying the places in the county that are most vulnerable to this natural disaster.
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FSU Geography Professor Accepted to Inaugural FSU ADVANCE Cohort Network
Assistant Professor of Geography Carolina Velásquez-Calderon, Ph.D., was recently accepted as a mentee in the inaugural cohort of the Florida State University ADVANCE Cohort Network Program.
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Associate Professor of Geography Receives Community Engaged Research Partnership Award
Associate Professor of Geography Tyler McCreary, Ph.D., received a Community Engaged Research Partnership Award. This award recognizes tenured faculty who are interested in collaborating with community members to create relevant and impactful research.
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Installation of Tower-Based Remote Sensing Instruments
Trina Merrick and Stephanie Pau with colleagues complete installation of tower-based remote sensing instruments, such as an eddy covariance flux system and a thermal camera on Barro Colorado Island, Panama, to study carbon fluxes of a tropical forest canopy.
National Academies Gulf Research Program Grant
PhD student Jennifer McHenry and her graduate professor study how seagrass beds provide societal benefits and support biodiversity with a grant from the National Academies Gulf Research Program.
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Florida State Geography is a hub for the spatially inquisitive. Whether it is understanding the roles of climate in shifting species distributions, deconstructing the processes that shape the growth and development of cities, using computational models to recommend where disaster relief is needed, unveiling social inequities through trends in municipal bonds, exploring the interactions of people and their dependence on aquatic habitats, or building technical skills through the implementation of remote sensing, programming, and Geographic Information Systems, our faculty and students dive into a myriad of subjects touching numerous corners of our world. These are only a few of the areas our department’s talent pursues.
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Are you interested in how human beings interact with their environment? Do you want to understand the roots of environmental injustice? Are you a tech fan looking to leverage the power of GIS, automation, and spatial statistics? Have you ever considered how remote sensing could impact the trajectory of an entire industry? Perhaps you find yourself thinking of how people develop both physical and social constructs. If so…
Geography is a field built on three pillars – the human, the environment, and the technical. By advancing basic knowledge as a foundation for problem-solving, and exposing students to a wide variety of applications across diverse interests, Geography equips its scholars with skill sets that are increasingly marketable in a world of complex questions. Many of our graduates, researchers, and faculty employ skills in geospatial science, statistics, and critical analysis. The trained geographer has the ability to identify issues or phenomena, ask appropriate questions, and deploy techniques from perspectives unique to the field and for the benefit of society.
We, in the Department of Geography at Florida State University, acknowledge that our university is located on land that is the ancestral and traditional territory of the Apalachee Nation, the Muscogee Creek Nation, the Miccosukee Tribe of Florida, and the Seminole Tribe of Florida. We pay our respects to their Elders past and present and extend that respect to their descendants, to the generations yet unborn, and to all Indigenous peoples. In doing so, we support the movement for a Native American and Indigenous Studies Center on campus.
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Anne Chin joins FSU as Department Chair and Harrison V. Chase Distinguished Professor of Geography
September 5, 2024
Anne Chin, Ph.D., joined FSU’s faculty as the Department of Geography’s new chair and the Harrison V. Chase Distinguished Professor of Geography on July 22, 2024. “After having anticipated coming to FSU for months it is great to be here at last,” Dr. Chin said. “I’m excited to join my colleagues to trans …
Apply to COSSPP’s prestigious Social Science Scholar program's 2025 cohort
August 30, 2024
Apply for the College’s prestigious Social Science Scholars program online by Friday, October 4 at bit.ly/2025sssp. The Social Science Scholars Program provides career-accelerating leadership training and experiences to 18 outstanding COSSPP undergraduate students with a major in the College, cumulative GPA of 3 …
COSSPP welcomes 13 new faculty members in Fall 2024
August 27, 2024
The College of Social Sciences and Public Policy has announced 13 scholars will be joining our full-time faculty beginning in fall 2024. …