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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 […]

As an EPIC Energy Research Assistantship recipient, Seth will be given a research assistantship worth $15,000 during the 2012-13 academic year. Additionally, his sponsoring mentor, Dr. Diemer, will receive a $5,000 research stipend to furthermore support Seth and his research.

This award is sponsored by the Graduate School to recognize outstanding research and scholarship by a doctoral student at UNC Charlotte.

Ray Atkinson (B.S. Geography) has been selected to participate in the 2012-2013 CLASS ACT (College of Liberal Arts & Sciences Students – giving Advice, making Connections, and receiving Training) Student Advisory Board. The purpose of the Board is to engage students in initiatives and special projects within the College of Liberal Arts & Sciences (CLAS). […]

Congratulations to Paul McDaniel, Ph.D. Candidate in Geography and Urban Regional Analysis who has secured a position as Project Researcher with the Center for Citizenship and Immigrant Communities at Catholic Legal Immigration Network, Inc. (CLINIC), in Washington, DC. Paul will be working primarily with CLINIC’s Legal Orientation Program for Custodians (LOPC) of Unaccompanied Children – […]