By Pete Williams, editor Forest Landowner Magazine It’s a Friday afternoon at the University of Florida in early September, and students have packed into Scott Sager’s two-hour “Professional Practice in Natural Resources” class. Most ... READ MORE
Category: Academics, Forests, Natural Resources
The UF Water Institute recently announced Dr. Matt Cohen, Carl S. Swisher Chair in Water Resources and FFGS Professor of Forest Water Resources and Hydrology, as its new director. Dr. Cohen has been serving as interim director since October ... READ MORE
Category: Academics
Submissions are now open for students who wish to compete in the GIS Day 2024 Map Contest! GIS Day, which will be held Thursday, November 21, 2024 at the University of Florida Fort Lauderdale Research and Education Center, is ... READ MORE
Category: Academics, UF/IFAS Research
By Suzette Cook/FFGS GAINESVILLE, FL – This is not the first time University of Florida School of Forest, Fisheries, and Geomatics Sciences (FFGS) Student Orlando Gonzalez Pollo volunteered to help after a major weather event in Florida. In ... READ MORE
Category: Academics, UF/IFAS Extension
GAINESVILLE, FL – Be on the lookout for University of Florida researchers donning orange vests as they measure trees throughout Gainesville, as part of a study funded by the City of Gainesville. For the next two years, a team led by Associate ... READ MORE
Category: Academics, Florida-Friendly Landscaping, UF/IFAS Extension
Former Westwood Middle School students Andrew Baker and Kody Brock were in sixth grade when they first met Assoc. Professor Dr. Michael Andreu during a field trip to Loblolly Woods Nature Park in Gainesville. Andreu, whose appointment at ... READ MORE
Category: Academics, EVENTS, UF/IFAS Extension
IT’S BEEN A YEAR since the new category “Forest Resources and Management” was added to the University of Florida IFAS Extension Online Learning Catalog. That portal became a point of access to online educational content developed ... READ MORE
Category: Academics, Forests, Recreation, UF/IFAS Extension, Wildlife
GAINESVILLE, FL -- The University of Florida’s Fishing for Success (FFS) program has been awarded a $2,000 grant from the League of Environmental Educators in Florida (LEEF). The annual LEEF Mini-grant Program was established to promote ... READ MORE
Category: Academics, EVENTS, Recreation, UF/IFAS Extension
It was University of Florida IFAS Fisheries and Aquatic Sciences Professor Mike Allen who handed a key to veteran Weather Channel Meteorologist Jim Cantore with the following instructions: Once Cantore and his camera crew entered the building, ... READ MORE
Category: Academics, Coasts & Marine, Disaster Preparation, EVENTS, UF/IFAS, UF/IFAS Extension
Advice on Timber Tax Tips for the 2023 tax year is now available from the U.S. Forest Service, USDA, and academic partners from the University of Florida’s Institute of Food and Agricultural Sciences and The University of Georgia Warnell School ... READ MORE
Category: Academics, Agribusiness, Forests, UF/IFAS Extension