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Geography majors, Jamal Covington and Devin Martin, win 1st place in Virtual Hackathon
Charlotte Community Scholars Presentation YouTube video Geography majors, Jamal Covington and Devin Martin, won an award for their entry into the Virtual Hackathon (apps and games for social good) competition (Click here for website). They created a mobile app this summer for the Charlotte Community Scholars program…..their app will assist CHARP with their efforts to […]
William (Bill) Garcia’s dinosaur trackways take geology students outside the classroom and back in time
Students in UNC Charlotte geologist William Garcia’s classes can imagine they have stepped back in time to the Mesozoic Era, as they follow an interactive path of dinosaur footprints newly installed on campus. Click here to read more.
Pollinators find salvation, friends along the Butterfly Highway
The bees and butterflies flitting through your yard this summer don’t hint at a dark reality: The pollinators that feed the world are starving. More than 200,000 species, mostly insects, carry pollen grains from male to female parts of flowers for reproduction. Three-quarters of the globe’s food crops rely on pollinators. But up to 40 […]
Rachel Cucinotta, Senior Meteorology major, published work in ACP journal
Rachel Cucinotta, Senior METR BS, published work from her Summer 2015 REU in a top journal. Abstract. Open, uncontrolled combustion of domestic waste is a potentially significant source of aerosol; however, this aerosol source is not generally included in many global emissions inventories. To provide a first estimate of the aerosol radiative impacts from domestic-waste […]
Geography major, Sarah McDonald, awarded MVP for the Volleyball team
Graduating geography major, Sarah McDonald, was awarded MVP of the Charlotte 49ers Volleyball team for 2016. The Charlotte 49ers and the Student-Athlete Advisory Committee held the 2016 Student-Athlete Awards Banquet in the Student Union on campus Wednesday May 4, 2016 and presented team MVP and Coaches’ Awards as well as department-wide academic honors. Sarah is […]
Scott Hippensteel – Civil War’s outcome affected by rock formations, terrain
The outcome of the Civil War was influenced by many factors on both sides, including population, finances, the availability of weaponry, naval power and military leadership. But in a recent study published by the Geological Society of America, a North Carolina professor suggests a less obvious factor: rocks. “It is not an overstatement to say […]
Yinan He won the AAG’s Student Presentation First Place Award
Yinan He, a second-year PhD student in the Geography and Earth Sciences department, won the Student Presentation First Place Award sponsored by the AAG (American Association of Geographers) Landscape Specialty Group. The presentation was given at the 2016 AAG meeting in San Francisco. Yinan is Dr. Gang Chen’s graduate student, working on a project using […]
Earth Matters – Department Newsletter
Latest newsletter from the department.
Welcome new faculty
The department would like to welcome Dr. Céline Martin and Dr. Jacopo Canello. Both will start in the fall and we look forward to having them join the faculty here at UNC Charlotte.
Strong showing at the American Association of Geographers Conference
Our department had a very strong showing at the American Association of Geographers Annual Meeting in San Francisco. Twenty students and faculty members took the journey to share research ideas, participate in panels and recruit new students. Several of us organized and/or chaired an impressive number of sessions. Congratulations to Dr. Gang Chen who was […]