Research

The faculty and students in the Department of Earth, Environmental and Geographical Sciences work on a wide range of cutting edge multidisciplinary and interdisciplinary research. Below are some of the main themed content areas and faculty who research in those areas. For student research topics, visit the faculty homepages.

*	Faculty Research Concentrations – click for more information
	ATMOSPHERIC AND CLIMATE SCIENCE Meteorology, severe local storms, mesoscale processes, urban meteorology, tropical cyclones, climate and climate change, air quality, water cycle, weather forecasting
	COMMUNITY ENGAGED RESEARCH CHARP (The Charlotte Action Research Project), Human-Environment interactions, urban social geography, community engaged scholarship, global health, neighborhood change, latinx communities
	ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCES Groundwater, hydrology, policy, water quality, oceanography, sustainability, land use, climate, energy, resources, ecology, conservation, biochemistry, urban stream ecology, river restoration, freshwater ecosystems, landscape ecology
	GEOLOGY Geomorphology, paleoclimate, structural geology, applied geophysics, tectonics, Appalachian geology, soils, paleoenvironments, rock & mineral resources, karst, weathering processes, quaternary geology, coastal geology, micropaleontology, mineralogy, hydrothermal geochemistry, ore genesis, planetary habitability
	GIS AND TECHNOLOGIES Spatial data: collection, curation, analysis, representation GIS, remote sensing, spatial ecology, cartography, field techniques, CyberGIS, spatial modeling, land use and land cover change
	HUMAN GEOGRAPHY Human-Environment interactions, sustainability, urbanization, transportation, economic geography, disease & the environment, hazards and disasters, global cultures, migration, globalization, epidemiology, food justice, immigration, housing, quantitative and qualitative spatial analysis, spatial business intelligence, commercial real estate development
	URBAN GEOGRAPHY Transportation, urban ecology, green infrastructure, urban planning, socio-ecological systems, community resilience, infrastructure, urban design, multimodal transportation planning, community planning
	WATER Surface water hydrology, groundwater hydrology, fluvial geomorphology, river restoration, molecular methods in freshwater ecosystems, hydrothermal geochemistry, hydrogeochemistry, water cycles, water & climate change, drought and aridity
	SCIENCE PEDAGOGY Geoscience education, geographic education