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Elizabeth Delmelle spoke on NPR’s morning edition as part of WFAE’s Finding Home series documenting affordable housing issues in the Charlotte Metropolitan Area. She discussed findings from her collaborative research project with Drs. Isabelle Nilsson and Claire Schuch on the impact of rail transit on neighborhoods, gentrification, and displacement. https://www.wfae.org/post/finding-home-does-light-rail-development-push-out-affordable-housing#stream/0

Terry Shirley, a Senior Lecturer in the Department of Geography & Earth Sciences, is one of three finalists for the UNC Charlotte Teaching Excellence Award. Read more about Terry and the other finalists below. https://inside.uncc.edu/news-features/2019-08-21/unc-charlotte-recognize-teaching-excellence#utm_source=gmail&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=August_22_2019

Recently, GES’ staff cartographer, Patrick Jones, completed maps for use in Dr. Christine Haynes’ (UNC Charlotte Department of History) book, Our Friends the Enemies: The Occupation of France after Napoleon available at Harvard University Press. The book has been very well received and peer reviewed by academics from other universities. One such review, by Thomas […]

Professor Heather Smith and Environmental Sciences major Sierra Matteson recently returned from Jerusalem where they were team members of the 2019 UNC Charlotte Mount Zion Archeological Dig (https://digmountzion.uncc.edu/). Each year, UNC Charlotte students have the opportunity to join the dig through summer study abroad. This year, Dr. Smith was a member of the faculty team […]

Three GES students were selected as Student Assistants for this year’s 2019 ESRI User Conference held in San Diego California: Vani Singh, Zoey Zhang, Sam Holden. All three are new or continuing in the geography MA program. The students gained valuable networking opportunities and furthered their appreciation of the numerous applications of GIS. Vani reported […]

“Part of understanding Antarctic geomorphology, is understanding how rocks actually crack,” said Martha-Cary (Missy) Eppes, a geologist at the University of North Carolina, Charlotte. “Understanding the factors that influence rock fracture on Earth’s surface generally is something that we haven’t quantified.” Click here for the full article. https://antarcticsun.usap.gov/science/contentHandler.cfm?id=4401

Continuing its longstanding tradition in the world of applied geographic research, this year the Department of Geography and Earth Sciences will host the Applied Geography Conference in Charlotte, October 23-25, 2019. Students, faculty, policy makers and other researchers from the public, private, and nonprofit sectors will converge on uptown for three days of sharing insights […]

Doctors Diemer and Eppes are representing UNC Charlotte, presenting their research – on the history of geology and mechanical weathering respectively- at this year’s European Geosciences Union conference held in Vienna, Austria. https://www.egu2019.eu/

This year there will be over 20 faculty and students at the American Association of Geographers Annual meeting from our department! https://aag.secure-abstracts.com/AAG%20Annual%20Meeting%202019/sessions-gallery Here are the ones we know of, sorry if we missed some.

Our student Meteorology club STORM is running the 5th Annual UNC Charlotte WeatherFest on Friday March 15 from 10am to 4pm at the Hauser Alumni Pavilion on campus. Like previous years, the celebration of weather has been completely organized and led by our undergraduate majors. This year, they even raised money for the event via […]

Antarctica’s unique climate enticed UNC Charlotte earth sciences researcher Martha Cary Eppes and her research colleagues to spend weeks camping in a tent in sub-zero temperatures, in order to literally monitor and listen to rocks as they fracture. They are studying how rocks alter and erode in one of the most extreme environments on the […]

In early January, students and faculty from Geography and Earth Sciences will be representing UNC Charlotte at the American Meteorological Society (AMS) Annual Meeting https://annual.ametsoc.org/index.cfm/2019/ in Phoenix, Arizona. The conference hosts over 4,000 attendees with applied and theoretical research related to atmospheric sciences, and includes both a Student Conference and the Full Conference. 20 students […]