Geography major Walker Harrison’s research paper on “City Parks in Minneapolis, Minnesota: An Access and Accessibility Analysis” won second place in the recent UNC Innovative Use of GIS Competition. Below is a few maps created from his GIS project:   … Continued

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 … Continued

UNC libraries celebrated 2018 GIS Day on Nov. 14, 2018 with two activities – Student Map Competition and Humanitarian Mapathon. The event was sponsored by the Department of Geography and the University Libraries. The winners of the map competition were decided … Continued

Geography major Walker Harrison, who is taking Geog591 – Urban GIS Applications this semester, created a map for GIS Day map competition, and won second place! The first place was received by a geography graduate student – Rajesh Bista. Harrison included … Continued

Many UNC alumni may want to know a geography question – Where Our Proud UNC Chapel Hill Alumni Live? Our doctoral student Rajesh Bista created a map to solve this puzzle for this year’s UNC GIS Day map competition, and won the … Continued

Erika Wise was awarded a new, 3-year National Science Foundation grant (2018-2021) with Cary Mock from the University of South Carolina, titled, “High Frequency Hydroclimate Extremes and Synoptic Climate Drivers in Western North America at the End of the Little … Continued

Sara Smith and Mabel Gergan (graduate alum, now faculty at Florida State University) have been awarded an Antipode International Workshop Grant in collaboration with Malini Ranganathan (American University), Jesús F. Cháirez-Garza (University of Leeds), Sapana Doshi (University of Arizona), and Sneha Krishnan (University … Continued

Sertanya Reddy received the Jessie Ball duPont Dissertation Fellowship. This named fellowship is awarded to a scholar who is making contributions to adolescent studies. Sertanya has a long history of researching with children, youth, and young adults that precedes her PhD … Continued

Sarah Schmitt was awarded the Thomas S. and Helen Borda Royster and Snowden and Elspeth Merck Henry Dissertation Fellowship within the Royster Society of Fellows for the academic year 2018-2019. Sarah is a 4th year Ph.D. candidate studying water-ecosystem interactions … Continued

Sertanya Reddy has been awarded the 2018 Gwendolyn Harrison Smith Community Award. The selection committee was impressed by the tremendous amount of work that Sertanya has done to help develop more meaningful and lasting ways to address diversity on campus, … Continued