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Gaston Abel Ayon Munguia (PhD student) won the second place in the Photo/Map Competition sponsored by the Landscape Specialty Group that I am chairing. His photo is “Inheritor”. Here is the comment from the award committee: “We were impressed with the story of this photo and felt it adhered very well to the landscape theme. […]

Doctoral student Paul Jung received the first prize in the student paper competition of the Geographic Information Systems and Science Specialty Group of the AAG. He beat 30some other applicants. Congratulations Paul.

This week, many of our Geography and Earth Sciences students and faculty will be traveling to New Orleans, Louisiana to present their research at the Annual Meeting of the American Association of Geographers (http://annualmeeting.aag.org/). The conference, held between April 10th and 14th, features more than 6,000 presentations, posters, workshops, and field trips by leading scholars, […]

Congratulations to PhD in Geography and Urban Regional Analysis graduate Dr. Paul McDaniel (2013) who was recognized by the American Association of Geographers in their April 2018 Career Profiles series. See http://www.aag.org/careerprofilesfor more information about why Paul choose to become a Geographer and what he finds most inspiring about his work now that he is […]

Our Meteorology majors have organized and are running the 4th Annual UNC Charlotte Weather Fest on Friday March 16 from 10am to 4pm at the Cone Center on campus. Weather Fest 2018 will include kid’s activities, presentations and displays by forecasters from the National Weather Service and by UNC Charlotte Meteorology students and faculty. You […]

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Brad Panovich, chief meteorologist at WCNC-TV and adjunct professor of meteorology at UNC Charlotte, was recently honored with The Award for Broadcast Meteorology at the American Meteorological Society Annual Meeting. The award recognized his passionate devotion to informing his on-air audience and for extensive use of social media to educate the public about meteorology.

Faculty and postdoctoral researchers from Geography and Earth Sciences were featured in the Fall 2017 College of Liberal Arts and Sciences quarterly magazine called “Exchange”. Professor Heather Smith and postdoctoral researcher Claire Schuch discussed how their work helps contextualize questions about immigration. Professors Sandra Clinton, Craig Allan, and David Vinson talked about water resources and […]

In early January, students and faculty from Geography and Earth Sciences will be representing UNC Charlotte at the American Meteorological Society (AMS) Annual Meeting https://annual.ametsoc.org/2018/ in Austin, Texas. The conference hosts well over 8,000 attendees with applied and theoretical research related to atmospheric sciences, and includes both a Student Conference and the Full Conference. 18 […]

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 […]