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Dr Casey Davenport will be awarded an American Meteorological Society Editor’s Award for her work as a reviewer for the AMS journal “Weather and Forecasting” for “consistently providing timely, balanced, constructive, and thorough reviews, while accepting all review invitations”. She will be recognized at the AMS Annual Meeting award ceremony in Boston in mid-January for […]

In a county where 42% of the residents rely on drinking water from unregulated sources, primarily private wells, educating residents on protecting their drinking water sources is a big job. Such is the case in Gaston County, North Carolina, where arsenic, manganese, and E. coli and total coliform bacteria threaten to contaminate wells, compromising the […]

Two years ago, we set off on a journey to refamiliarize ourselves with the greater Charlotte region. With funding from The Duke Endowment, the UNC Charlotte Urban Institute sought to understand how a cohesive region whose shared identity was once synonymous with the ethos of New South prosperity had splintered in recent decades. A thriving […]

The Department of Geography and Earth Sciences hosted more than 150 geographers at this year’s Applied Geography Conference on October 23-25 in Uptown Charlotte. Thanks to faculty, staff and graduate students, the conference was a true team effort. Student turnout was outstanding — 27 of our graduate students discussed their research, presented posters, organized panels, […]

Elizabeth Delmelle spoke on NPR’s morning edition as part of WFAE’s Finding Home series documenting affordable housing issues in the Charlotte Metropolitan Area. She discussed findings from her collaborative research project with Drs. Isabelle Nilsson and Claire Schuch on the impact of rail transit on neighborhoods, gentrification, and displacement. https://www.wfae.org/post/finding-home-does-light-rail-development-push-out-affordable-housing#stream/0

Terry Shirley, a Senior Lecturer in the Department of Geography & Earth Sciences, is one of three finalists for the UNC Charlotte Teaching Excellence Award.

Recently, GES’ staff cartographer, Patrick Jones, completed maps for use in Dr. Christine Haynes’ (UNC Charlotte Department of History) book, Our Friends the Enemies: The Occupation of France after Napoleon available at Harvard University Press. The book has been very well received and peer reviewed by academics from other universities. One such review, by Thomas […]

Professor Heather Smith and Environmental Sciences major Sierra Matteson recently returned from Jerusalem where they were team members of the 2019 UNC Charlotte Mount Zion Archeological Dig. Each year, UNC Charlotte students have the opportunity to join the dig through summer study abroad. This year, Dr. Smith was a member of the faculty team and […]

Three GES students were selected as Student Assistants for this year’s 2019 ESRI User Conference held in San Diego California: Vani Singh, Zoey Zhang, Sam Holden. All three are new or continuing in the geography MA program. The students gained valuable networking opportunities and furthered their appreciation of the numerous applications of GIS. Vani reported […]

“Part of understanding Antarctic geomorphology, is understanding how rocks actually crack,” said Martha-Cary (Missy) Eppes, a geologist at the University of North Carolina, Charlotte. “Understanding the factors that influence rock fracture on Earth’s surface generally is something that we haven’t quantified.” Click here for the full article. https://antarcticsun.usap.gov/science/contentHandler.cfm?id=4401