Dr. Mike Emch won a huge grant, “Impacts of Environment, Host Genetics and Antigen Diversity on Malaria Vaccine Efficacy,” funded by the National Institute of Allergies and Infectious Disease, National Institutes of Health (NIH),1R01-AI137410-01, $3,632,091, 2018-22. This is an NIH … Read more

Diego Riveros-Iregui delivered a lecture in the College of Biological Sciences at the Universidad San Francisco de Quito, Ecuador. His presentation was titled: “The physical template of landscapes and the biophysical dimensions of water”

Walsh, S. J., Mena, Carlos F. 2018. Social and Ecological Interactions in the Galapagos Islands. Springer. ISSN 2195-1055 The Galapagos Islands are a “living laboratory” for the study of evolution, environmental change, and conflicts between nature and society. Free of human predators … Read more

Dannenberg, M. P. & E. K. Wise (2017) Shifting Pacific storm tracks as stressors to ecosystems of western North America. Global change biology. DOI: 10.1111/gcb.13748

Dr. Arce Nazario reveals that Puerto Rico’s oral history is even more important after hurricane. http://www.dailytarheel.com/article/2018/01/environmental-justice-0125

West, C. T., A. Moody, E. K. Nébié & O. Sanon (2017) Ground-Truthing Sahelian Greening: Ethnographic and Spatial Evidence from Burkina Faso. Human Ecology, 45, 89-101.

Olson, E. (2017) ‘The largest volunteer life saving corps in the world’: centering child caregiving in histories of U.S. human security through the Little Mothers’ League. Social & Cultural Geography, 1-20.

Lentz, C. C. (2017) Cultivating Subjects: Opium and rule in post-colonial Vietnam. Modern Asian Studies, 51, 879-918.

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