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In mid-December, several students and faculty from Geography and Earth Sciences will be representing UNC Charlotte at the American Geophysical Union (AGU) Fall Meeting https://fallmeeting.agu.org/2017/program-overview/ in New Orleans. The conference is the biggest Geo Scientists gathering in the world with over 20,000 attendees. Alex Schaefer (INES PhD student) and Professors Missy Eppes, David Vinson, Celine […]

Wei-Ning Xiang is a Professor of geography and earth sciences at the University of North Carolina at Charlotte, USA. He received a BS degree in geography from Beijing Normal University, China; a master’s degree in regional planning from the University of Massachusetts at Amherst, USA; and a doctorate in city and regional planning from the […]

Recipient of the Best Paper Award, Third ACM SIGSPATIAL Workshop on the Use of GIS in Emergency Management (EM-GIS 2017) with Weixin Zhai for paper on “Social Media Discourse in Disaster Situations: A Study of the Deadly July 21, 2012 Beijing Rainstorm”, Redondo Beach, CA, November 2017.

The American Association of State Colleges and Universities (AASCU) recently bestowed its 2017 Excellence and Innovation Award to UNC Charlotte. The association honored the University in the category Civic Learning and Community Engagement for the Charlotte Action Research Project (CHARP), founded by Janni Sorensen, an assistant professor in the Department of Geography and Earth Sciences. […]

Dr. Jean-Claude Thill’s proposal titled Tackling Socioeconomic Disparities in North Carolina through Integrated Solutions in Public Health, Education, and Transportation has been selected as the recipient of a UNC Inter-institutional Planning Grant (IPG) for Fiscal Year 2017/18.

CAGIS researcher and Ph.D. student Adam Griffith was recently tapped by the popular NPR newsprogram Marketplace to comment on the connection between urban development and the recent catastrophic flooding Houston associated with hurricane Harvey. Listen to the article here. In his blog, Griffith describes his methods for measuring increases in Houston’s impervious land covers between […]

Gentrification and the rise of suburban poverty, the decline of the Rustbelt and the comeback of Pittsburgh and Detroit: If there is one constant in urban life it would seem to be the ongoing process of urban and neighborhood change. Yet a majority of neighborhoods are staying much the same, according to a new study […]

There were 124 proposals rigorously reviewed by NASA and six outstanding students were selected. The selected proposals are funded by the NASA Harriett G. Jenkins Graduate Fellowship through the Minority University and Education Project (MUREP) https://www.nasa.gov/offices/education/programs/national/murep/feature/nasa-awards-fellowships-to-six-graduate-students.html

Natural processes of mechanical weathering cause solid rock to break up. However, there are a range of forces that cause cracks, different rates of cracking and several processes by which cracks grow. A recent article in Reviews of Geophysics looked specifically at how low-level forces and climate may combine to break up rock. The journal’s […]

Minrui Zheng received a Travel Award and Honorable Mention for the Best Paper Competition at the 2nd International Symposium of Spatiotemporal Computing (at Harvard University). Her paper is entitled “Hyperparameter optimization of neural network-driven spatial model accelerated using cyber-enabled high-performance computing”. This is fantastic! For more information, please check out CAGIS web site: http://gis.uncc.edu/cagis-researcher-recognized-best-paper-competition-2nd-international-symposium-spatiotemporal

As the Charlotte region urbanizes, what changes will take place over time in the Catawba River basin near the smaller creeks and watersheds? Two UNC Charlotte researchers hope questions like that can be answered with information they’ll start gathering, thanks to a Duke Energy Foundation grant. Read the full article here. http://plancharlotte.org/story/uncc-hydrogeological-research-gaston-county-redlair

Katie Magee, who recently completed her M.S. in Earth Sciences under Dr. Casey Davenport, won the Best Student Poster Award at the 17th Conference on Mesoscale Processes in San Diego, California. Her poster was entitled “An Observational Study on Quantifying the Distance to Supercell-Boundary Interactions in the Great Plains” and her abstract can be found […]

Kit Cloninger will graduate this summer and has already moved to Iowa to the quad cities for his first on air job. The station introduced him today. http://www.ourquadcities.com/news/local-4-news-welcomes-new-weekend-meteorologist/762530051

Charlotte Talks: A Discussion Of Trump’s Decision To Pull U.S. Out Of Paris Climate Agreement http://wfae.org/post/charlotte-talks-discussion-trumps-decision-pull-us-out-paris-climate-agreement

UNC Charlotte has received a $76,521 grant to establish a watershed observatory that will document the impact of land use and invasive plant species on Catawba Watershed water quality and quantity and to guide the development of best conservation practices for uplands here and elsewhere. Martha Cary Eppes and David Vinson of the Department of […]

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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 […]