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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 (UNC Charlotte 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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

The department would like to welcome 2 new full time faculty members for the fall semester. Dr. Deborah Thomas and Dr. Larianne Collins. Dr. Thomas comes to us from the University of Colorado Denver and will be taking over as department chair on August 1st. Dr. Collins comes to us from the University of South […]

The UNC Charlotte Undergraduate Research Conference (URC) is a university-wide showcase of research projects completed by undergraduate students of all levels from all colleges and departments in the university. The URC is sponsored by Academic Affairs, the Atkins Library, Charlotte Research Institute, the Honors College, and the Levine Scholars program. The Geography and Earth Sciences […]

Hearty congratulations to Dr. Liz Morrell and Dr. Tonya Farrow-Chestnut, May 2018 graduates of our PhD in Geography and Urban Regional Analysis program. They are pictured here just prior to their hooding with advisors Dr. Heather Smith and Dr. Harrison Campbell.