Geography PHD student Grey Shipman receives the G. Herbert Stout Award and presented at NC GIS conference next week on March 9th. Below is his presentation abstract: Public transportation can enable individuals without vehicles to access improved employment opportunities, essential … Read more
Distinguished Emeritus Professor & Research Professor of Geography Steve Walsh and Co-Director, UNC Center for Galapagos Studies Diego Riveros-Iregui featured in this video – WorldSummitonIslandSustainabilityOverview.mp4 (dropbox.com)
Geography graduate student Tong Qiu’s GIS research project “Automatic Extraction of Water Bodies from ZY-3 Imagery based on spectral signature: A case study in Wuhan City” just won first place in the 2018 UNC Innovative Use of GIS Competition. In … Read more
Congratulations to Sierra Houck, Haley Moser, and Laura Roberson on successful research projects presented at UNC’s Celebration of Undergraduate Research! Senior Laura Roberson presented a paper titled: “Condoms on Campus: A Geography-Based Approach to Sexual Health Resources on a College … Read more
Mark Ortiz is one of eight graduate students in the inaugural group of Druscilla French Fellows. Mark’s work focuses on youth involvement in climate policy and is generating new intellectual and applied spaces for considering the moral, ethical, and material … Read more
Mark Ortiz is in Bonn at COP 23. He and other UNC students are blogging from the event, and their reports are being published by the DTH. Please check it out! http://www.dailytarheel.com/article/2017/11/summit-entry-one-1106
Following a summer of research funded by the UNC Institute for the Environment’s IDEA (Increase Diversity and Enhancing Academia) Undergraduate Research Experience Program, geography majors Chris Bennet (supervised by Dr. Elizabeth Havice) and Sofia McCarthy (supervised by Dr. Gabriela Valdivia) … Read more
Professor Pickles presented the keynote address –“The Challenge of Territory”– to over 500 high-school student attendees at the MUNCH XVII Model United Nations Conference, Chapel Hill, Thursday, February 23rd, 2017.
Department of Geography organizes a conference on Feminist Geography, to be held May 18-20, 2017. Feminist Geographers will join us from around the world to ask how feminist theory travels in geography, what borders feminism breaks down or reinforces, and … Read more
Professor Riveros-Iregui and Carolina Climate Change Scientists host 3rd annual UNC Climate Change Symposium. For more information, visit http://ie.unc.edu/2016/04/unc-talks-climate-change/
