In yesterday’s GIS Day map contest, sponsored by Davis library and Geography department, we have received 43 map submissions. Geography Major Sarah Followill receives the first place. Her map title is “Displaying Urbanization and Sprawl in Atlanta Metro Area Census … Read more

Geography PhD candidate Suad Jabr featured in Endeavors – Queering the Borders | Endeavors (unc.edu)

Graduate student Annie Elledge’s research with Wilson Libraries is featured in Endeavors. For more information, follow this link. Annie Elledge, graduate student in geography, in the Special Collections Reading Room at Wilson Library (photo by Alyssa LaFaro)

Kriddie Whitmore has received a Student Research Grant from the Society of Wetland Scientists. Her proposal was titled “Carbon Emissions from Small Wetlands in a High-Elevation Tropical System.” This grant will provide funds for her field season in Ecuador this … Read more

The deadline is Nov. 15 noon, 2021. You can submit digital maps, or online maps (URLs) via this link.  The best three maps will be decided by a panel of GIS specialists. Students who create the best three maps will also … Read more

The US National Science Foundation awarded a $1.6 million grant to support a research project in Nepal led by UNC Geography Professor Conghe Song. This is an international interdisciplinary project with UNC being the lead institute, collaborating with North Carolina … Read more

Article Titled: Mountain Living and the Importance of Local Information Outlets for Severe Weather. This article was the culmination of a Duke Bass Connections research project that aimed to investigate how people living in the mountains of western North Carolina … Read more

Graduate student Kriddie Whitmore published a paper in the journal Ecosphere, examining the effects of geomorphology on aquatic carbon transformation in the Ecuadorian Andes. Her study provides the first estimates of gas transfer velocity in a high-elevation tropical catchment across … Read more

Brandt, K., V. Goel, C. Keeler, G. J. Bell, A. E. Aiello, G. Corbie-Smith, E. Wilson, A. Fleischauer, M. Emch & R. M. Boyce (2021) SARS-CoV-2 Testing in North Carolina: Racial, ethnic, and geographic disparities. Health & Place, 102576.

Graduate student Mike Hawkins was awarded a Mellon-ACLS Dissertation Completion Fellowship. The one year fellowship will support the writing of his dissertation: “From Colonial Cargo to Global Containers: An Episodic Historical Geography of Manila’s Waterfront, 1898-2020.”