2016 UNC Geography Department Newsletter is out!
June 1, 2016
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Dr. Emch receives National Science Foundation grant titled “Finding Safe Drinking Water to Mitigate Arsenic Contamination: Tube Wells, Storage, and Diarrhea.”
May 26, 2016
Emch, M. (P.I.), Sobsey, M (CoPI), Islam, (CoPI), Yunus, M (CoPI). Finding Safe Drinking Water to Mitigate Arsenic Contamination: Tube Wells, Storage, and Diarrhea. National Science Foundation, BCS-1560970, $419,999, 2016-2019. In an effort to reduce diarrheal disease incidence, public health efforts during the past 30 years have led to an almost universal shift from the consumption of surface water to groundwater from shallow aquifers (<140 feet…
Graduate student Doug Hopping has been awarded a summer Policy Communication Fellowship by the Institute for Social and Environmental Research-Nepal.
May 11, 2016
… Graduate student Doug Hopping has been awarded a summer Policy Communication Fellowship by the Institute for Social and Environmental Research-Nepal. As a fellow, Doug will spend the summer in Chitwan, Nepal participating in fieldwork and writing policy memos based on research from the long-running Chitwan Valley Family Study. More information about the fellowship is available here. …
Geography majors enjoy lunch, spring weather at a department-sponsored study break
May 5, 2016
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Geography Faculty HB2 Statement
May 5, 2016
UNC-Chapel Hill is a world-class research university that serves the people of the State of North Carolina by attracting and retaining the very best faculty, staff, and students from around the state, the country, and the world. Non-discrimination is an extremely important part of our mission. The new law in North Carolina called HB2 does not require the University to change its nondiscrimination policies, and those policies remain in effect. UNC…
Graduate student Tong Qiu won the best student paper at the 2nd Congress of the Society for Urban Ecology
August 24, 2016
… Graduate student Tong Qiu won the best student paper at the 2nd Congress of the Society for Urban Ecology which was hosted by East China Normal University and the Society for Urban Ecology in Shanghai during July 8-10, 2016. Tong’s presentation title was “Detecting Spatial and Temporal Variation of Urban Phenology Over the Past Three Decades Using Landsat Time-series Data.” The Prize carries a $300 cash reward. …
Assistant Professor in Geography
August 26, 2016
We are hiring: Assistant Professor of Medical Geography The Department of Geography at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill invites applications for a tenure track appointment at the rank of Assistant Professor in the area of Medical Geography. The appointment is available starting July 2017. Specialties can include but are not limited to population health, spatial epidemiology, climate and health, and mathematical modeling for disease…
Dr. Smith publishes paper entitled “Baby bust: Towards political demography”
May 2, 2016
… Robbins, P. & S. H. Smith (2016) Baby bust: Towards political demography. Progress in Human Geography, 1, 21. …
Dr. Riveros‐Iregui publishes paper entitled “Spatial and seasonal variabilities of the stable carbon isotope composition of soil CO2 concentration and flux in complex terrain”
November 1, 2016
… Liang, L. L., D. A. Riveros‐Iregui & D. A. Risk (2016) Spatial and seasonal variabilities of the stable carbon isotope composition of soil CO2 concentration and flux in complex terrain. Journal of Geophysical Research: Biogeosciences, 121, 2328-2339. …
Graduate Student Amy Braun awarded Dissertation Fellowship
November 29, 2016
Geography graduate student Amy Braun has been awarded the UNC Graduate School Off Campus Dissertation Research Fellowship for spring 2017. Amy’s project examines how the growth of the marine biotechnology sector, and algal biofuels in particular, contributes to producing sustainable development through investments what has been termed the “blue” economy. In the spring semester, she will be conducting field work in Wilmington, North Carolina and W…