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Tropical cyclone season is the season that Geography and Earth Sciences Masters student Eric Webb relishes. The map below that he recently created shows just how primed the Atlantic basin is for hurricanes. CBS and Yahoo News both showcased Eric’s map in articles at CBS News: CBS News Article Yahoo News: Yahoo News Article So […]

NPR via WFAE (also on WUNC, KUNC, WAER and possibly other NPR affiliates) https://www.npr.org/2020/08/10/900766698/residents-in-north-carolina-brace-for-earthquakes-aftershocks WBTV On Your Side with Jamie Boll Talking about that earthquake that shook our area yesterday morning WSOC (At around 3:20) https://www.wsoctv.com/news/local/did-you-feel-it-largest-earthquake-more-than-100-years-rattles-carolinas/c69224bb-cc0c-413e-bccd-c0ccc3c8cafd/ WBTV https://www.wbtv.com/2020/08/09/did-i-just-feel-an-earthquake-many-surprised-others-unbothered-by-ncs-magnitude-earthquake/

The blare of horns, the staccato notes of performers on street corners, the boisterous voices of crowds of people – these city sounds had largely fallen silent in the face of COVID-19 pandemic stay-home orders. In the quiet that settled into urban spaces, city dwellers worldwide have told stories of connecting with birds around their […]

As the United States battles a drastic resurgence in coronavirus cases, a group of UNC Charlotte researchers aggregated, analyzed and visualized publicly available COVID-19 data to produce an interactive dashboard in order to better understand the rapid spread of the virus. Click below to read more. https://datascience.uncc.edu/visualizing-covid-19-pandemic

Brisa Urquita Hernandez, PhD in Geography Candidate and Director, Community Health at Atrium Health was recently interviewed by NPR’s All Things Considered. Brisa’s doctoral research focuses on the Latinx experience of urban restructuring in Charlotte’s South Boulevard Corridor as a determinant of health and in her role with Atrium she has been a leading member […]

Each year we honor those students that have gone above and beyond everyday course work. Due to COVID-19, we were unable to have our annual awards dinner in the spring of 2020. Because of COVID-19 we had to find ways to do many of the things we take for granted each and every day. Here […]

As communities relax COVID-19 restrictions, a recent study by UNC Charlotte geographer Eric Delmelle and two of his former doctoral students could provide decision-makers with timely data about spikes in COVID-19 cases to help guide their decisions. The research, published in the journal Applied Geography this spring, tracks clusters of COVID-19 down to the county […]

Since 2012, the somewhat unusual research pairing of a geologist and mechanical engineer at UNC Charlotte has led to some important scientific results, and has recently earned recognition of their work with a top award for interdisciplinary research and publication. Dr. Martha Cary (Missy) Eppes, professor of Earth Sciences in the Department of Geography and […]

Colleen Hammelman, Assistant Professor in the Department of Geography and Earth Sciences, was awarded a prestigious National Science Foundation Faculty Early Career Development Program (CAREER) Grant to study population change and gentrification in urban foodscapes. Over the next five years, this research will investigate the impact of changing urban economies on landscapes created and utilized […]

The department created a short video to congratulate the class of 2020.