Land Cover and Land Use Change on Islands Social & Ecological Threats to Sustainability Editors: Walsh, S.J., Riveros-Iregui, D., Acre-Nazario, J., Page, P.H. (Eds.) Springer-Nature (2020) https://www.springer.com/gp/book/9783030439729 Globalization in the 21st century is posing new challenges to humans and natural … Read more
Geography faculty Jon Lepofsky will be a teaching fellow with the Institute of African American Research’s initiative for Student Learning to Advance Truth and Equity (IAAR-SLATE) this fall 2020. Jon’s First Year Seminar: Making Myth-Leading Memories: Landscapes of Remembrance (GEOG58) … Read more
Dr. Delamater and PhD student Rachel Woodul’s COVID-19 research in North Carolina (https://nc-covid.org) was featured in the News and Observer (https://www.newsobserver.com/article243951007.html) and on television! (https://www.cbs17.com/news/north-carolina-news/actual-nc-number-of-total-covid-19-cases-could-be-7-times-as-large-as-state-count-experts-say/)
Please follow this link https://chapelboro.com/town-square/focus-carolina-michael-emch .
Graduate students Montana Eck and Andrew Murray recently published a paper in the journal of Agricultural and Forest Meteorology which investigates the impact of climate anomalies on crop yield in the southeastern United States.
Professor Diego Riveros-Iregui has received a grant from the National Science Foundation titled “Conceptualizing and quantifying the function of beaver dams and stormwater ponds on the hydrology and biogeochemistry of urban streams.” This is a collaborative grant with Georgia State … Read more
You can’t fight pandemics without power—electric power
The faculty of the UNC Department of Geography condemn police and vigilante violence and call for justice for Black communities who have been the victims of these crimes and of systematic and institutional racism. We are outraged by the deaths … Read more
The Bowman and Gordon Gray Professorship is one of the UNC’s most esteemed awards for excellence in undergraduate teaching. The five-year professorship provides a salary supplement, an annual research fund, and a highly valued sabbatical. More than 70 faculty members … Read more
Professor Paul Delamater is working with scholars from University of Michigan School of Public Health and with the Michigan Department of Health and Human services to map COVID-19 cases in Michigan.
