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Paul McDaniel successfully defended his dissertation for the PhD in Geography on January 30. Dr. Heather Smith is his advisor

Several members of the department will be attending and presenting at the American Meteorological Society Annual Meeting from Jan 5-10 in Austin, TX. The AMS meeting attracts over 6000 representatives of the atmospheric sciences community. Undergraduate meteorology majors Brandy Stimac, Reid Strickler, Philip Ware, Gonzalo Agudelo, Daniel Cunningham, David Goldmintz, and Albert Washington will be […]

Kory Jeter, a URBS minor who will study at East China Normal University in spring 2013 has been awarded a Gilman Scholarship of $4,500.00. You can learn more about the Gilman scholarship at http://www.iie.org/en/Programs/Gilman-Scholarship-Program. We are very pleased Kory has won this award and that he will represent the UNC Charlotte and the College of […]

Whalen Dillon (Geography PhD student) won the John Fraser Hart PhD Paper Competition at the 2012 annual SEDAAG conference. Whalen’s written paper and presentation was entitled “RANGE-WIDE RISKS TO A FOUNDATION TREE SPECIES FROM DISTURBANCE INTERACTIONS”. This is the fourth year in a row that UNC Charlotte has won this prestigious $1000 award in honor […]

Kunwar Singh (Geography PhD student) won the PhD Poster Competition ($500 prize) for his research entitled “DETECTING AND MAPPING SUB-CANOPY INVASIVE PLANTS IN URBAN FORESTS USING LIDAR-DERIVED METRICS”.

Dr. Jean-Claude Thill was awarded the Hirotada Kohno Award of the Regional Science Association International (http://www.regionalscience.org/Competitions-and-Awards/The-Hirotada-Kohn…). Professor Thill currently serves as the vice president for RSAI and will begin his term of president of the organization next year. From the RSAI webpage: “The Award honours and thanks a member of the RSAI who has provided […]

Many of the GES Department faculty worked hard on preparations and hosting of the successful national Geological Society of America (GSA) meeting, which was held in Charlotte from November 3-7 (http://www.geosociety.org/meetings/2012/). There were approximately 5800 attendees and by all accounts the meetings were a great success. The local organizing committee was chaired by Professor John […]

GES Speaker Series 2012-2013 details are now available at http://geoearth.charlotte.edu/Speaker-Series/speaker-series.html. Our next speaker will be Professor Yuh-Lang Lin from NC A&T who will discuss Orographic Effects on Tropical Cyclone Track and Rainfall on Oct 26. He will be hosted by Professor Matt Eastin.

The work of two of our graduate students was selected for presentation at the GIScience 2012 conference in Columbus, OH. All submissions went through a rigorous peer review process. The presentations were “SASEIC: A GKB-Supported Space-Aware Search Engine in Chinese,” Min Chen, Yi Zhang and Xingguang Wang and “A Comprehensive Framework for Spatial Association Rule […]

Sarah Haas (Geography Ph.D. student) has been selected as the recipient of the 2012-13 Lucile and Edward Giles Dissertation-Year Fellowship at UNC Charlotte. This $21,000 award was established by Lucille Giles to allow students to focus full-time on the completion and writing of their dissertation, and to support travel associated with their research. Sarah’s dissertation […]