… A Thanksgiving entertainment option for geographers – http://www.travelchannel.com/shows/expedition-unknown/episodes/the-lost-colony-of-roanoke …
In Nov 16, 2016’s GIS day map competition, which was co-sponsored by Geography department and Davis Library, geography major Johanna won first place. There were 38 submissions to the map competition, including a web map on unc.maps.arcgis.com. Johanna Schaaper, who is a geography major, won the first place, with her map “NJ Crime Rate, Population Change, and Distance between Law Enforcement”. Erika Brandt, a graduate student from City and Regiona…
… Click here for the link – http://voices.nationalgeographic.com/2016/11/03/could-climate-change-keep-kids-out-of-school/ …
Diego Riveros-Iregui (Principal Investigator): “RAPID: Collaborative Research: Impacts of Extreme Flooding on Hydrologic Connectivity and Water Quality in the Atlantic Coastal Plain and Implications for Vulnerable Populations”, National Science Foundation, Hydrologic Sciences Program, EAR-1712345, $58,851, 2016-2017. In October 2016, Hurricane Matthew brought extreme rainfall that led to extreme flooding across eastern North Carolina, including t…
To submit map for the GIS Day Map Competition, please follow this link. To Submit documents for Innovative USe of GIS Competition, please follow this link. All other GeoWeek activities: Monday, November 14: Public Seminar Dissent and Public Space: The Case of 2013 Gezi Uprising in Turkey Dr. Banu Gökariksel Tuesday, November 15: Student-led Humanitarian Mapathon Wednesday, November 16 (GIS DAY): Workshop (11:15 – 12:15) Intro to NHGIS: Geographic…
… On Nov 4th, Dr. Havice was invited to deliver the annual Shaw lecture in Geography at Florida State University. Her talk was titled: Where chain governance and environmental governance meet: inter-firm control strategies and resource regulation in the canned tuna global value chain. http://geography.fsu.edu/activities/shaw-lecture/ …
… On Nov. 15, volunteers will fill in critical gaps as part of a Humanitarian Mapathon in the Davis Library Research Hub, second floor, at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. The effort will support the Measles & Rubella Initiative in Humanitarian OpenStreetMap, a crowd-sourced effort to create and provide maps to assist in humanitarian and crisis relief. …
… Read the related article in WCHL Chapelboro: http://chapelboro.com/news/unc/at-unc-scholars-ask-how-we-define-our-borders …
Project title: The Creation of Favelas as Sites Necessitating Pacification Research question: How is the favela constructed as a space, an identity, and as a site that necessitates pacification? Project description The study of geography begins deconstructing the concept of space as something that simply exists; instead, place and space emerge as a product of our interactions, institutions, and material worlds. As such, space is “shot through” wi…
… Walsh, S. J. & C. F. Mena (2016) Interactions of social, terrestrial, and marine sub-systems in the Galapagos Islands, Ecuador. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 201604990. …
