Graduate student Amy Braun was selected for the spring 2018 Future Faculty Fellowship Program at the UNC Center for Faculty Excellence. https://cfe.unc.edu/teaching-and-learning/teaching-as-a-graduate-student/future-faculty-fellowship-program-2/.
Dr. Michael Jerrett will be giving the Eyre Distinguished Lecture on Friday January 19th at 3:30pm in the Toy Lounge in Dey Hall. Dr. Jerrett is one of the most highly cited geographers in the world, and he focuses on … Read more
This study provides the first observation based understanding of global vegetation growth pattern during 2001-2015 using the most recent version of the remotely sensed data from NASA MODIS Collection 6 data. Overall, the Earth is greening, but vegetation growth patterns are highly … Read more
Rachel Cotterman’s ongoing work with the Backways Project and Harvey’s Chapel has recently been featured in the news. She has been interviewed with folks including Harold Russell and Tom Magnuson for several articles on their collective effort to identify pre-Jim Crow … Read more
Graduate student Trey Murphy interviewed on wind rights, mineral rights, and surface rights and the future of energy development in Texas. Hear the interview here: http://kut.org/post/texas-landowners-take-wind-out-their-sales
Dr. Banu Gökarıksel receives the American Association of Geographers 2018 Enhancing Diversity Award. You can find out more about the award here: http://www.aag.org/diversityaward
The NASA Land Cover/Land Use Change (LCLUC) Program awarded the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill a three-year grant in the amount of $720,000 to examine the effects of social and ecological factors, particularly, human migration and tourism on … Read more
Students in Erika Wise’s Research Intensive GEOG416: Applied Climatology class presented their research projects through two virtual posters (in the Odum Institute Social Computing Room) and one paper poster (courtesy of UNC Geography) over the Fall 2017 semester.
2017 UNC GIS Day (Nov. 15, 2017) event had three activities: the traditional map competition, scavenger hunt, and Student-led Humanitarian Mapathon. These activities were sponsored by the following organizations at UNC-CH – UNC Library, UNC Department of Geography, and UNC … Read more
2017 UNC GIS Day (Nov. 15, 2017) event had three activities: the traditional map competition, scavenger hunt, and Student-led Humanitarian Mapathon. These activities were sponsored by the following organizations at UNC-CH – UNC Library, UNC Department of Geography, and UNC … Read more
