Research Projects - Department of Geography and Environment

The following list provides a snapshot of current projects led by Geography and Environment faculty, often in collaboration with national and international partners. Additional research projects not listed here may be listed under individual faculty websites.

Project Title	Associated Faculty
Disease Surveillance Using Molecular and Geographic Methods in the Congo	Michael Emch
Incorporating geographic context into randomized controlled trials: Case studies on the RTS,S malaria and the oral cholera vaccines	Michael Emch
NSF PIRE: Energy Poverty in Sub-Saharan Africa	Michael Emch
The Neighbor Who Might Kill You: Encounter and Difference in Urban Turkey	Banu Gökarıksel
Unsettling Borders: Refugees in Turkey and the European Union (https://www.unsettlingborders.com/)	Banu Gökarıksel
Feminist Geography Unbound: Discomfort, Bodies, and Prefigured Futures (https://wvupressonline.com/node/863)	Banu Gökarıksel
Changing Indigenous Livelihoods and Land Use in the Ecuadorian Amazon	Clark Gray
Environmental Change and Human Migration in the Developing World	Clark Gray
Climate, Health and Population Well-being	Clark Gray
Kress Variety Stores and the Architecture of Mass Consumption: A Building Geographies Approach	Scott Kirsch
Contested Territory: Điện Biên Phủ and the Making of Northwest Vietnam	Christian C. Lentz
Cultivating Subjects: Opium and Rule in Postcolonial Vietnam	Christian C. Lentz
Bookend Caregiving: building networks for young people who provide care for aging adults	Elizabeth Olson
Caregiving Youth Research Collaborative	Elizabeth Olson
Youth Caregiving in the United States: historical, political and social perspectives	Elizabeth Olson
Impacts of Extreme Flooding on Hydrologic Connectivity and Water Quality in the Atlantic Coastal Plain and Implications for Vulnerable Populations	Diego Riveros-iregui
Disturbance and Water Crisis in the Tropics: The Galapagos Islands as a Case Study	Diego Riveros-iregui
Effects of Land Use and Stream Network Dynamics on Water Quality across Urban-Rural Transitions	Diego Riveros-iregui
Mapping Forest Aboveground Biomass Loss in North Carolina from Hurricanes using Multisource Remotely Sensed Data	Conghe Song
Influence of Community Forestry on the Dynamics of Socio-Environmental Systems	Conghe Song
Crude Entanglements: Living with Oil in Ecuador	Gabriela Valdivia
Reducing uncertainties in tree-ring records of wet extremes to aid interpretations of past climate and plan for future changes	Erika Wise
Multi-century perspectives on current and future streamflow in the Missouri River Basin	Erika Wise