EEGS faculty and students attend 2025 SEFOP trip on Hurricane Helene Impacts!

Students and faculty from DEEGS participated in the 2025 SouthEastern Friends of the Pleistocene (SEFOP) Annual Field trip this past weekend.  The trip was led by UNC Charlotte alum and Davidson College Professor, Dr. Brad Johnson, and focused on the geomorphic changes to the landscape and damage done to human structures by Hurricane Helene in the fall of 2024.  Undergraduate students from Jake Armour’s Field Methods in the E&ES and Dr. Eppes’ Art and Science of Earth Mapping classes were in attendance along with a number of students, faculty, and staff from neighboring institutions.  These students benefited from seeing landslide and debris flow impacts in the Black Mountain area of western North Carolina on Saturday, followed by flood deposits and more mass movement activity in the Wilson Creek area north of Morganton.  The group camped at nearby Rose Creek Campground and served up a delicious pasta dinner before weathering low temperatures around 30 deg F overnight!  Lots was learned and a great time was had by all!