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Charles Fite will be working this summer on research through the very competitive NASA Student Airborne Research Program (SARP). Charley’s specific research project at SARP will be determined soon enough, but generally he will be working on aircraft-based studies of the atmosphere and/or land-atmosphere interactions using in situ and remote sensing instrumentation. The aircraft part […]

Stephanie Edwards, who joined UNC Charlotte from NC State University in Spring 2016 and is working on a Masters degree in Earth Sciences with Dr Brian Magi, was awarded summer funding from the North Carolina Space Grant consortium through their very competitive Graduate Research Fellowship Program described at http://ncspacegrant.org/index.php?page=grad-res-fellowship-pgm. Usually, only two graduate students in […]

Catherine Opalka, an Earth Sciences MS student, has been selected as this year’s Peter Birkeland Award winner by the Quaternary Geology and Geomorphology Division of the Geological Society of America. Congratulations Catherine.

The department would like the welcome 2 new faculty members this coming fall. Dr. Colleen Hammelman and Dr. Jacob (Jack) Scheff.

Several of our graduate students, faculty, visiting scholars and researchers traveled to the Annual Meeting of the American Association of Geographers in Boston this early April 2017. We had a stronger showing than last year at San Francisco with 24 presentations and 3 posters, 29 organizes or chaired sessions. Jean-Claude Thill andWenwu Tang were also […]

In partnership with the Levine Scholars Program, the Department of Geography & Earth Sciences and the Urban Studies Minor is hosting a campus visit by Dr. Lin Lin from the Department of Urban Planning and Design at Xi’an Jiaotong-Liverpool University in Suzhou. China. Dr. Lin is the Department’s newest Adjunct Faculty Member and is our […]

When streetlights burn out in the Enderly Park neighborhood, the darkness closes in, causing residents to worry about safety. Neighborhood advocates may benefit from a new tool to help them push back the dark. UNC Charlotte geography undergraduate students Jamal Covington and Devin Martin have created a way for residents to use mobile devices to […]

UNC Charlotte researchers have examined over one million tweets sent during the protests of the police shooting of Keith Lamont Scott in Charlotte in September 2016. This research holds implications for understanding the role of cluster tweets and other public relations strategies in relation to online activism. “The Keith Lamont Scott shooting and ensuing Charlotte […]

Ari Whiteman, a student in the Geography and Urban Regional Analysis doctoral program and founder and director of the Urban Mosquito Project, is seeking volunteers in the Charlotte area who will allow the research team to place mosquito traps on their property. Full story here. Photo credit: Lynn Roberson, CLAS Communications Director

Laurie Garo successfully defended her PhD dissertation “A Multilevel Analysis of Black Male Secondary School Student Discipline and Achievement in Relation to Violence Exposure”. The degree is a PhD in Curriculum and Instruction, Urban Education, within the college of education. Laurie utilized GIS as one of her methods, to determine neighborhood level violence exposure. Dr. […]