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Wilson’s World: Checking out the “Green” Roof at Autobell on Park Road Wilson found out that washing cars is not all that goes on at the Autobell on Park Road. He climbed up onto the top of the building to investigate their environmentally friendly green roof. Autobell’s green roof is not only a pleasant view […]

More cycling in Charlotte is good for you, even if you never mount a bicycle. More butts on bikes means less congestion and noise on local roads, cleaner air, fewer traffic fatalities and ultimately a lighter burden on our health care system. Purchasing, operating, and maintaining a bicycle is also many times cheaper as a […]

Dr. Brian Magi will be on WFAE Charlotte Talks (Wednesday, March 22) in the morning for a fun discussion of science reactions after the Executive Branch budget proposal was released. http://wfae.org/post/science-meets-politics-environmental-research-regulation-and-protections-north-carolina

UNC Charlotte Meteorology undergraduate and graduate students have organized and are running the 3rd Annual Charlotte Weatherfest on Friday, March 24th, 2017, from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. at the Hauser Alumni Pavilion on campus. At Weatherfest, you will find activities aimed at a wide range of ages but especially for K-6 students, Charlotte TV […]

CAGIS has been approved with a NSF XSEDE Supercomputing Resource Allocation Award. The project (PI: Wenwu Tang) is entitled “Accelerating and enhancing multi-scale spatiotemporally explicit analysis and modeling of geospatial systems” (in total, 200,000 supercomputing service hours). As you may know, XSEDE (Extreme Science and Engineering Discovery Environment; https://www.xsede.org/), supported by NSF, is the worldwide […]

One of our Assistant Professors, Brain Magi, and one of our part time instructors, Brad Panovich, were on WFAE this week to talk about climate change. Nearly all climate scientists and a growing number of meteorologists believe climate change is real. We talk to a scientist and two meteorologists about the causes and effects of […]

For 2017, the KEEPING WATCH initiative is focusing on the issue of wildlife habitat in our urban ecosystem. As part of this year’s offerings PlanCharlotte.org editor Mary Newsom talked with Associate Professor Sara Gagné of UNC Charlotte’s Department of Geography and Earth Sciences. Gagné is an urban ecologist who studies the effects of urbanization on […]

Please join me in congratulating Danny Yonto on his 2nd place finish in last week’s 3MT competition. Danny, a student in our PhD in Geography and Urban Regional Analysis program, was one of the brave souls who condensed their research into a single slide and a three-minute presentation. Danny’s presentation was based on his doctoral […]

Less than a month into 2017, there have been more fatalities due to tornadoes this year than all of 2016. Dr. Casey Davenport discussed some of the reasons behind this sharp increase with Time Warner Cable News. http://www.twcnews.com/nc/charlotte/top-videos/2017/01/24/southeast-storm-death-toll-passes-2016-tornado-deaths-.html

The Butterfly Highway took flight when doctoral student Angel Hjarding came up with the idea while exploring research for her dissertation at the University of North Carolina at Charlotte. She launched the project in several neighborhoods in Charlotte. Earlier this year, the program received a major lift when NCWF adopted it and hired Hjarding to […]