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Natural processes of mechanical weathering cause solid rock to break up. However, there are a range of forces that cause cracks, different rates of cracking and several processes by which cracks grow. A recent article in Reviews of Geophysics looked specifically at how low-level forces and climate may combine to break up rock. The journal’s […]
Minrui Zheng received a Travel Award and Honorable Mention for the Best Paper Competition at the 2nd International Symposium of Spatiotemporal Computing (at Harvard University). Her paper is entitled “Hyperparameter optimization of neural network-driven spatial model accelerated using cyber-enabled high-performance computing”. This is fantastic! For more information, please check out CAGIS web site: http://gis.uncc.edu/cagis-researcher-recognized-best-paper-competition-2nd-international-symposium-spatiotemporal
As the Charlotte region urbanizes, what changes will take place over time in the Catawba River basin near the smaller creeks and watersheds? Two UNC Charlotte researchers hope questions like that can be answered with information they’ll start gathering, thanks to a Duke Energy Foundation grant. Read the full article here. http://plancharlotte.org/story/uncc-hydrogeological-research-gaston-county-redlair
Katie Magee, who recently completed her M.S. in Earth Sciences under Dr. Casey Davenport, won the Best Student Poster Award at the 17th Conference on Mesoscale Processes in San Diego, California. Her poster was entitled “An Observational Study on Quantifying the Distance to Supercell-Boundary Interactions in the Great Plains” and her abstract can be found […]
Kit Cloninger will graduate this summer and has already moved to Iowa to the quad cities for his first on air job. The station introduced him today. http://www.ourquadcities.com/news/local-4-news-welcomes-new-weekend-meteorologist/762530051
Charlotte Talks: A Discussion Of Trump’s Decision To Pull U.S. Out Of Paris Climate Agreement http://wfae.org/post/charlotte-talks-discussion-trumps-decision-pull-us-out-paris-climate-agreement
UNC Charlotte has received a $76,521 grant to establish a watershed observatory that will document the impact of land use and invasive plant species on Catawba Watershed water quality and quantity and to guide the development of best conservation practices for uplands here and elsewhere. Martha Cary Eppes and David Vinson of the Department of […]
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Charles Fite will be working this summer on research through the very competitive NASA Student Airborne Research Program (SARP). Charley’s specific research project at SARP will be determined soon enough, but generally he will be working on aircraft-based studies of the atmosphere and/or land-atmosphere interactions using in situ and remote sensing instrumentation. The aircraft part […]
Stephanie Edwards, who joined UNC Charlotte from NC State University in Spring 2016 and is working on a Masters degree in Earth Sciences with Dr Brian Magi, was awarded summer funding from the North Carolina Space Grant consortium through their very competitive Graduate Research Fellowship Program described at http://ncspacegrant.org/index.php?page=grad-res-fellowship-pgm. Usually, only two graduate students in […]
The department would like the welcome 2 new faculty members this coming fall. Dr. Colleen Hammelman and Dr. Jacob (Jack) Scheff.
Catherine Opalka, an Earth Sciences MS student, has been selected as this year’s Peter Birkeland Award winner by the Quaternary Geology and Geomorphology Division of the Geological Society of America. Congratulations Catherine.