Geography graduate student Amy Braun has been awarded the UNC Graduate School Off Campus Dissertation Research Fellowship for spring 2017. Amy’s project examines how the growth of the marine biotechnology sector, and algal biofuels in particular, contributes to producing sustainable … Read more
Walsh, S. J. & C. F. Mena (2016) Interactions of social, terrestrial, and marine sub-systems in the Galapagos Islands, Ecuador. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 201604990.
Wright, W. J. (2016) Spatializing Blackness: Architectures of Confinement and Black Masculinity in Chicago by Rashad Shabazz (review). Southeastern Geographer, 56, 374-376.
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
Smith, S., N. W. Swanson & B. Gökarıksel (2016) Territory, bodies and borders. Area, 48.3, 258-261.
Dannenberg, M. P., C. R. Hakkenberg & C. Song (2016) Consistent Classification of Landsat Time Series with an Improved Automatic Adaptive Signature Generalization Algorithm. Remote Sensing, 8, 691.
Graduate student Mark Ortiz recently traveled to Houston, Texas to attend the Climate Reality Project’s Leadership Corps Training. The Climate Reality Project was founded in 2006 by Nobel Laureate and former U.S. Vice President Al Gore to take the climate … Read more
Graduate student Tong Qiu won the best student paper at the 2nd Congress of the Society for Urban Ecology which was hosted by East China Normal University and the Society for Urban Ecology in Shanghai during July 8-10, 2016. Tong’s … Read more
Graduate student Mark Ortiz, along with 23 other students from 6 countries, recently visited the University of Wisconsin-Madison for a Summer School sponsored by Wisconsin’s Holtz Center for Science and Technology Studies. The summer school was part of a Holtz … Read more
What is diversity? Why must we, as geographers, be concerned with how our work addresses power disparities and social differences? Stevie Larson, PhD, studies race and decolonization, histories of organizing, and governance in relation to transnational Asian adoptees and Asian America … Read more
