Diego Riveros-Iregui (Principal Investigator): “RAPID: Collaborative Research: Impacts of Extreme Flooding on Hydrologic Connectivity and Water Quality in the Atlantic Coastal Plain and Implications for Vulnerable Populations”, National Science Foundation, Hydrologic Sciences Program, EAR-1712345, $58,851, 2016-2017. In October 2016, Hurricane … Read more

To submit map for the GIS Day Map Competition, please follow this link. To Submit documents for Innovative USe of GIS Competition, please follow this link. All other GeoWeek activities: Monday, November 14: Public Seminar Dissent and Public Space: The … Read more

On Nov 4th, Dr. Havice was invited to deliver the annual Shaw lecture in Geography at Florida State University. Her talk was titled: Where chain governance and environmental governance meet: inter-firm control strategies and resource regulation in the canned tuna global value … Read more

On Nov. 15, volunteers will fill in critical gaps as part of a Humanitarian Mapathon in the Davis Library Research Hub, second floor, at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. The effort will support the Measles & Rubella … Read more

Read the related article in WCHL Chapelboro: At UNC, Scholars Ask How We Define Our Borders

Project title: The Creation of Favelas as Sites Necessitating Pacification Research question: How is the favela constructed as a space, an identity, and as a site that necessitates pacification? Project description The study of geography begins deconstructing the concept of … Read more

The Department of Geography and the Davis Library Research Hub are collaborating to host an Innovative Use of GIS competition, and a GIS Day map competition.  Both competitions are for current undergraduate and graduate students of the University of North Carolina … Read more

Read the article on Dr. Valdivia’s research in WCHL Chapelboro http://chapelboro.com/news/unc/unc-professor-studies-impact-of-crude-oil-on-ecuador-town

Dr. Olson featured in UNC Endeavors Magazine’s ‘Women in Science’ series http://endeavors.unc.edu/elizabeth_olson

UNC Geography’s Rebecca Chaisson and recent graduate James Ellsmoor are on the Caribbean island of Saint Lucia this week promoting the use of solar energy. The project is part of an initiative by the nonprofit Solar Head of State, and is designed … Read more