Sarah Schmitt has been awarded a National Geographic Young Explorers Grant.  The Young Explorers Program supports “hard-working, passionate, creative individuals with great ideas” and has helped launch the careers of many of the Society’s, and our planet’s, most renowned explorers. … Read more

http://www.dailytarheel.com/article/2015/11/unc-doctoral-candidate-performs-geography-research

Call, M. A., & Voss, P. R. (2016). Spatio-temporal dimensions of child poverty in America, 1990–2010. Environment and Planning A, doi: 10.1177/0308518X15597907.

Duncan, J. M., L. E. Band, P. M. Groffman, and E. S. Bernhardt (2015), Mechanisms driving the seasonality of catchment scale nitrate export: Evidence for riparian ecohydrologic controls, water Resource Research, 51, doi:10.1002/2015WR016937.

Bozigar, M., C. Gray, and R. Bilsborrow. (2016). Oil extraction and indigenous livelihoods in the northern Ecuadorian Amazon. World Development 78: 125–135.

Dr. Christian Lentz featured on the home page of the UNC global website! His story can be found in the following link: http://global.unc.edu/news/exploring-food-and-politics-in-1950s-vietnam/

What is diversity? Why must we, as geographers, be concerned with how our work addresses power disparities and social differences?  Adam Bledsoe, a recent graduate of the Department of Geography, studies traditional Afro-Brazilian communities who defend their land from appropriation. His … Read more

UNC College of Arts and Sciences recognizes Professor Larry Band for his being voted an AGU Fellow and describes his scientific contributions.  Link it to http://college.unc.edu/2015/09/15/geophysicalfellows/  

Professor Larry Band was elected a Fellow of the American Geophysical Union (AGU). This honor is given to individual AGU members who have made exceptional scientific contributions and attained acknowledged eminence in the fields of Earth and space sciences.   … Read more

Reyes, A. (2015) Zapatismo: Other Geographies Circa ‘The End of the World’. Environment and Planning D: Society and Space, 33, 408-424.