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This year the departments student clubs (GEO, STORM, 49erUP), faculty, and students volunteered on Sunday, April 14th from 11:00am to 4:00pm at the joint STEAM/Kidsfest in central campus. The event showcased GIS and mapping, urban planning, the stream table, rock identification, cloud making, and many other activities. Hundreds of local students and parents visited the […]

The Department of Earth, Environmental, and Geographical Sciences is thrilled to announce that current M.S. in Earth Sciences student and incoming Ph.D. in Geography student Jasen Greco is the 2024-2025 recipient of the Dr. William F. Kennedy Graduate Fellowship. Jasen will continue working under the advisement of Dr. Casey Davenport examining the interaction of supercell thunderstorms […]

Zurikanen Iddrisu is a first-generation graduate student from Ghana and a PhD candidate in the department of Geography and Earth Sciences. He holds a BSc in Development Planning from his home country and an MSc in Urban Analytics and Visualization from the University of Warwick, UK. His interests hover around the general area of geospatial […]

Dr. Youngseob Eum (PI) was awarded a School of Data Science 2024 Summer Seed Grant for Data Science along with his collaborators Dr. Srinivas S. Pulugurtha (Co-PI; Department of Civil & Environmental Engineering) and Dr. Lei Zhu (Co-PI; Department of Industrial and Systems Engineering). The research project will investigate spatial and temporal patterns in business […]

Sonia Birla a Finance, Geography, and International Studies triple major was announced as National finalist for the 2024 Truman Scholarship. A junior from Cary and a member of the Honors College, she has advanced to the regional interview round in Washington, D.C., and are among 191 finalists selected from 709 applications nationwide. Charlotte is the […]

The department of Geography and Earth Sciences hosted a career fair on Friday March 15th in the McEniry lobby where over a dozen local companies and government entities talked to students about potential internships and careers. The event was attended by more than 100 of our undergraduate and graduate students and many connections were made! […]

Sunshine and free donuts greeted a record number of volunteers who cleaned the GEO club’s adopted section of Mallard Creek on March 16. If you’re interested in joining GEO for future events, contact Valerie Reynolds (vreynol2@charlotte.edu) and follow GEO on Instagram @unccltgeo! Below is a gallery of photos taken from the clean up:

Dr. Veronica Westendorff, a landscape architect and recent graduate of the Ph.D. in Infrastructure and Environmental Systems (INES) program, shares findings from her research on tree canopy, heat islands, and potential strategies for cooling in Charlotte with WFAE. Dr. Westendorff, Dr. Idziorek, and a multidisciplinary team of Geography and Earth Sciences researchers are working to […]

The GEO club held its February meeting at Charlotte’s Lambla Gallery to view Erratic Accretion, an art exhibition by Milwaukee-based artist Nicole Shaver. Nicole joined via Zoom to provide context for the exhibition and share her interests in the intersection of art and science as well as the significance of place. Among the art pieces were mineral samples from the department’s Orchard […]

M.S. Earth Sciences student Jasen Greco received a poster award at the recent American Meteorological Society Student Conference in Baltimore, MD. His study, entitled “Idealized Simulations of SUpercell Thunderstorm Interactions Near Stationary Boundaries,” was particularly lauded for its organization and clarity. Congratulations, Jasen! For a larger version of the poster, see below.