Woodul, R. L., P. L. Delamater & M. Emch (2019) Hospital surge capacity for an influenza pandemic in the triangle region of North Carolina. Spatial and spatio-temporal epidemiology, 30, 100285.
While conducting research on his dissertation related to mineral rights in Texas, UNC Geography PhD Candidate Trey Murphy was interviewed by the NPR bureau in west Texas on the booming oil economy and the possibility of a bust. To hear … Read more
Mary Biggs, first-year Master’s student, received the 2019 Master’s Research Grant from the Cultural Geography Specialty Group of the AAG. She will use this money to conduct research this summer for her master’s thesis, tentatively titled “Constructing the Past, Constructing … Read more
Goel, V., M. Islam, M. Yunus, M. Ali, A. Khan, N. Alam, A. Faruque, G. Bell, M. Sobsey & M. Emch (2019) Deep tubewell microbial water quality and access in arsenic mitigation programs in rural Bangladesh. Science of The Total … Read more
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 … Read more
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 … Read more
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 … Read more
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Did you know that people grow crops in the Galapagos Islands? Before tortoises and blue-footed boobies drew hundreds of thousands of annual visitors to the “Enchanted Islands”, agriculture used to be the region’s main economic engine. Agricultural areas in the … Read more
Don’t miss this wonderful story by Geography major Haley Moser about her experience in the Galapagos with graduate student Angelica Gomez and supported by the Galapagos Science Center of USFQ and UNC-CH: https://endeavors.unc.edu/carolina-to-cristobal/
