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The outcome of the Civil War was influenced by many factors on both sides, including population, finances, the availability of weaponry, naval power and military leadership. But in a recent study published by the Geological Society of America, a North Carolina professor suggests a less obvious factor: rocks. “It is not an overstatement to say […]

Yinan He, a second-year PhD student in the Geography and Earth Sciences department, won the Student Presentation First Place Award sponsored by the AAG (American Association of Geographers) Landscape Specialty Group. The presentation was given at the 2016 AAG meeting in San Francisco. Yinan is Dr. Gang Chen’s graduate student, working on a project using […]

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The department would like to welcome Dr. Céline Martin and Dr. Jacopo Canello. Both will start in the fall and we look forward to having them join the faculty here at UNC Charlotte.

Our department had a very strong showing at the American Association of Geographers Annual Meeting in San Francisco. Twenty students and faculty members took the journey to share research ideas, participate in panels and recruit new students. Several of us organized and/or chaired an impressive number of sessions. Congratulations to Dr. Gang Chen who was […]

Exceptional role models recognized at International Women’s Day Offering odes to strong women who inspired them was a common thread by speakers at the recent International Women’s Day program held in the Student Union Multipurpose Room. An annual event, International Women’s Day “acknowledges that our campus community is filled with local women who embody the […]

Dr. Gang Chen has been named the 2016 recipient of the Early Career Award, sponsored by Remote Sensing Specialty Group of American Association of Geographers (AAG – RSSG)

If you listen to Charlotte Talks, you can hear Dr. Brian Magi talking about air quality science tomorrow morning, March 2, 2016. http://wfae.org/post/keeping-watch-air-quality

magazine-q1-2016-eppes.pdf The drive to learn how the sun weathers rock has taken UNC Charlotte earth scientist Martha-Cary “Missy” Eppes to great lengths – to the arid deserts of the Southwest, the periglacial boulder fields of Pennsylvania and Virginia and even to the surface of Mars. Mechanical weathering, the physical means by which rock is broken […]

Abstract Most Atlantic hurricanes form in the Main Development Region between 9°N to 20°N along the northern edge of the Intertropical Convergence Zone (ITCZ). Previous research has suggested that meridional shifts in the ITCZ position on geologic timescales can modulate hurricane activity, but continuous and long-term storm records are needed from multiple sites to assess […]