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The Charlotte area’s first winter storm of the season brought with it freezing rain, multiple days of school closings and an added stint of cold weather. Thomas Winesett, 23, is a graduate student at UNC Charlotte’s Earth Science department who focuses on meteorology and shares his forecasts via Twitter @twineset. http://www.charlotteobserver.com/2015/02/20/5524968/unc-charlotte-students-discuss.html#.VOdmmcY-KJa
In a video to promote the upcoming Charlotte Weather Fest (Saturday March 21, 1-5pm), many Meteorology majors from our department put together a super-catchy dance and music video letting everyone know how excited they are about the event. The video is at YouTube http://youtu.be/NHFLTkkn6sc and was directed by Meteorology major Heleena Tapp and filmed by […]
UNC Charlotte Meterology student Ricky Matthews use social media to catch wind of weather. http://www.charlotteobserver.com/2015/02/07/5496296/students-use-social-media-to-catch.html#.VNkEXMY-KJZ
UNC Charlotte Meteorology senior Ricky Matthews and Earth Sciences Masters student Thomas Winesett were featured in a CLAS Exchange story about storm chasing in North Carolina last April. Read the whole article and see some pictures at https://exchange.uncc.edu/meterorology-student-seeks-to-improve-systems-to-save-lives/
About 10 undergraduate and graduate students, as well as Professors Davenport and Magi, will be at the annual meeting of the American Meteorological Society (AMS) in Phoenix, Arizona from 3-8 January. Our Meteorology students will all be attending the AMS Student Conference and many will attend the full conference as well. Presenters include senior Warren […]
Holiday Season Kudos to the Geography and Earth Sciences Graduate Student Organization (GESGO) for their successful launch and completion of Operation Sandwich. On December 5th, students, staff and faculty of the Department of Geography and Earth Sciences gathered to make sandwiches for distribution to the Urban Ministry Center, an organization “dedicated to bringing the community […]
Carolynne Hultquist, a newly graduated Geography BS student, published her research as lead author in a high-profile international journal Remote Sensing Letters. The research was completed while Carolynne worked in Professor Gang Chen’s lab. In the study, high spectral resolution remote sensing, geographic object-based image analysis (GEOBIA), and machine learning were applied to assess burn […]
Christopher Godwin, a newly graduated Geography BS student, published his research as lead author in a high-profile international journal Landscape & Urban Planning. The research was completed while Chris worked in Professor Gang Chen’s lab. It synergies remote sensing LiDAR (light detection and ranging) and aerial photography to efficiently model landscape-level forest carbon storage in […]
Congratulations to PhD in Geography and Urban Regional Analysis students Claire Schuch and Brisa Urquieta-Hernandez lead authors on a research paper selected by the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation (RWJ) as one of the four “most influential“ articles in 2014 in the area of identification and elimination of disparities in health care. The paper, Por Nuestros […]
Dr. Brian Magi is seeking a graduate student to join the Multidisciplinary Earth System and Atmospheric Sciences (MESAS) research group in the Department of Geography and Earth Sciences at the University of North Carolina at Charlotte (mesas.uncc.edu). The student will develop research within the context of an NSF funded project focused on studying how global […]
Dylan McKnight didn’t get involved with the Reid Park Neighborhood Park project for recognition. He got involved because he wanted to help the neighborhood fulfill its 23-plus-year desire for a community park. But that led to something more. McKnight has been awarded the 2014 Marvin Collins Outstanding Planning Award in the graduate student project category […]
Geography professor receives Provost’s Faculty Award for Community Engagement Heather Smith, professor of geography in the College of Liberal Arts & Sciences, is the 2014 recipient of the Provost’s Faculty Award for Community Engagement. Established in 2012, the award honors a tenured faculty member whose teaching, research and service embodies the University’s commitment to civic […]