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Dr. Riveros-Iregui publishes an opinion piece in the Colombian newspaper El Espectador: Fusagasugá y San Bernardo: el balón está en su cancha
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Geography Postdoc Danielle Purifoy in recent UNC news
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Graduate student Francisco Laso mapping agriculture and conservation in the Galapagos Islands
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
Geography minor reports on 2018 SURF project
Chapel Hill, North Carolina Watersheds: The Visual Language of Environmental Degradation Pictured to the right: Meredith Emery Studio Art BFA, Geography Minor in front of 2018 SURF project Faculty Advisor: Yun-Dong Nam, Department of Art & Art History, UNC Chapel … Read more
Graduate student Schmitt and Dr. Riveros-Iregui publish paper entitled “The role of fog, orography, and seasonality on precipitation in a semiarid, tropical island.”
Schmitt, S. R., D. A. Riveros‐Iregui & J. Hu (2018) The role of fog, orography, and seasonality on precipitation in a semiarid, tropical island. Hydrological Processes. Vol 32.18, 2792-2805.
Dr. Arce-Nazario publishes paper entitled “Resilience and community pride after a hurricane: counter-narratives from rural water systems in Puerto Rico”.
Arce-Nazario, J.A. 2018. “Resilience and community pride after a hurricane: counter-narratives from rural water systems in Puerto Rico”. Alternautas. http://www.alternautas.net/blog/2018/9/7/resilience-and-community-pride-after-a-hurricane-counter-narratives-from-rural-water-systems-in-puerto-rico
Dr. Wise publishes paper entitled “Hydroclimatology of the Missouri River Basin.”
Wise, E.K., C.A. Woodhouse, G. McCabe, G. Pederson, J. St-Jacques. 2018. Hydroclimatology of the Missouri River Basin, Journal of Hydrometeorology, 19 (1), 161–182, doi: 10.1175/JHM-D-17-0155.1.
Dr. Stephen Walsh spoke on “Linking Social,Terrestrial & Marine Subsystems …” in the School of Ecological and Environmental Sciences at East China Normal University
Dr. Stephen Walsh spoke on “Linking Social,Terrestrial & Marine Subsystems in Island Ecosystems – The Case of the Galapagos Islands of Ecuador” in the School of Ecological and Environmental Sciences at East China Normal University on September 30, 2018.
Dr. Walsh publishes two chapters in Comprehensive Remote Sensing, Elsevier (2018)
Walsh, S.J., Page, P.H., Brewington, L., Bradley, J.R., Mena, C.F. (2018). A beach vulnerability frameworl for the Galapagos Islands: fusion of Worldview-2 imagery, 3-D laser scanner data, and unmanned aerial vehicles. Comprehensive Remote Sensing, Vol. 9: 159-176. Zhang, H., Walsh, … Read more