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Several GES students and faculty attending this year’s AGU Fall Meeting in DC. See below for links to their research: Nicholas Golden (Earth Sciences MS) and Jacob Scheff, “Do CMIP5 climate models agree on warming of the atmosphere with latitude and height?” https://agu.confex.com/agu/fm18/meetingapp.cgi/Paper/452580 Xiaoyu Bai (INES PhD) and Jacob Scheff, “Energy Budget Analysis of TRACMIP […]

Doctoral student Paul H. Jung received the first prize in the Graduate Student-led Paper Competition at the 2018 Annual North American Meetings of the Regional Science Association International (RSAI) in San Antonio, TX. The award was for a paper co-authored with Drs Jean-Claude Thill and Michele Issel on “Heteroscedasticity Consistent Empirical Bayes Estimator: Areal Prevalence […]

Jean-Claude Thill received a special Service Award from the Regional Science Association International for services rendered to the association in 2017 and 2018. A plaque was handed out at the 2018 North American Meetings of RSAI in San Antonio TX in November 2018. Dr. Thill has a long-term involvement with the RSAI in various leadership […]

Current INES Ph.D. student Matt Gropp was recently selected as the winner of the 2019 Outstanding Master’s Thesis Award. His M.S. thesis, titled “Assessing the Impact of the Nocturnal Transition on the Lifetime and Evolution of Supercell Thunderstorms in the Great Plains,” was completed in 2017 under the direction of Dr. Casey Davenport. The thesis […]

PhD in Geography students Jaeho Ko and Tonderai Mushipe joined Dr. Heather Smith and Dr. Paul McDaniel (UNCC PhD in Geography and Urban Regional Analysis graduate, 2013) at the IXth Race, Ethnicity and Place conference held in Austin, TX last week. In keeping with the conference theme of engaged scholarship and fostering civil and human […]

A message from Dr. Xiang… I am delighted to report, as the founding editor-in-chief, the launch of a new geography journal Socio-Ecological Practice Research (SEPR) by Springer Nature. I cordially invite you to click https://link.springer.com/journal/42532/onlineFirst/page/1 to download and read the inaugural editorial. As you can see, to respond to the question in the title “Socio-Ecological […]

In a national competition with other undergraduate students studying weather, Meteorology senior Danielle Miller won the Liv and Walt Lyons scholarship from the American Meteorological Society’s national competition with other undergraduate students studying the connections between weather and society. Please congratulate Danielle if you see her in the halls of McEniry or in the department’s […]

The UNC Charlotte Weather Broadcast Studio was created by Danielle Miller, a Levine Scholar and Senior Meteorology student, via funding from the Levine Scholars Program and support from the Department of Geography and Earth Sciences. Located in McEniry room 231, the space allows students to gain valuable skills in forecasting, broadcasting, and communicating that are […]

One of our new MS Earth Sciences students, Eric Webb, tweeted about Atlantic hurricane potential and The Weather Channel picked up his post saying “Research has shown that negative AMO Atlantic hurricane seasons can have a slightly later than normal peak, according to a tweet by Eric Webb, a University of North Carolina at Charlotte […]

If you’ve used Uber or Lyft lately, you’re not alone. By the end of 2018, the total number of for-hire car rides, including conventional taxi trips and trips with services like Uber and Lyft, will approach 4.74 billion, surpassing total bus trips in the United States for the first time in history. Since 2012, the […]