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The department wants to recognize our outstanding administrative professionals: Teena Power, Rachel Smith, and Lisa Pickett. What do they do in EEGS? Simply put, everything! The three of them organize, assist, plan, solve, simplify, coordinate, and do a million other amazing things that none of us are even aware of to keep the department running […]
The AEG (Association of Environmental and Engineering Geologists) Annual Visiting Professionals Career Day took place last Thursday afternoon from 4-6 pm in McEniry 125. Four practicing geoscientists presented, representing a variety of career paths and positions. Three of the presenters were alumni of our department – one very recently! About twenty students were in attendance enjoying pizza, […]
This summer, the Charlotte Heat Mappers, a coalition of community organizations, nonprofits and government entities led by UNC Charlotte’s Department of Earth, Environmental and Geographical Sciences (Katherine Idziorek, Matt Eastin, Douglas Shoemaker, Michelle Zuñiga, Veronica Westendorff and graduate research assistant Joe Wiswell) will oversee a community science campaign to map variations in urban heat across […]
This year the departments student clubs (GEO, STORM, 49erUP), faculty, and students volunteered on Sunday, April 14th from 11:00am to 4:00pm at the joint STEAM/Kidsfest in central campus. The event showcased GIS and mapping, urban planning, the stream table, rock identification, cloud making, and many other activities. Hundreds of local students and parents visited the […]
The Department of Earth, Environmental, and Geographical Sciences is thrilled to announce that current M.S. in Earth Sciences student and incoming Ph.D. in Geography student Jasen Greco is the 2024-2025 recipient of the Dr. William F. Kennedy Graduate Fellowship. Jasen will continue working under the advisement of Dr. Casey Davenport examining the interaction of supercell thunderstorms […]
Zurikanen Iddrisu is a first-generation graduate student from Ghana and a PhD candidate in the department of Geography and Earth Sciences. He holds a BSc in Development Planning from his home country and an MSc in Urban Analytics and Visualization from the University of Warwick, UK. His interests hover around the general area of geospatial […]
Dr. Youngseob Eum (PI) was awarded a School of Data Science 2024 Summer Seed Grant for Data Science along with his collaborators Dr. Srinivas S. Pulugurtha (Co-PI; Department of Civil & Environmental Engineering) and Dr. Lei Zhu (Co-PI; Department of Industrial and Systems Engineering). The research project will investigate spatial and temporal patterns in business […]
Sonia Birla a Finance, Geography, and International Studies triple major was announced as National finalist for the 2024 Truman Scholarship. A junior from Cary and a member of the Honors College, she has advanced to the regional interview round in Washington, D.C., and are among 191 finalists selected from 709 applications nationwide. Charlotte is the […]
The department of Geography and Earth Sciences hosted a career fair on Friday March 15th in the McEniry lobby where over a dozen local companies and government entities talked to students about potential internships and careers. The event was attended by more than 100 of our undergraduate and graduate students and many connections were made! […]
Sunshine and free donuts greeted a record number of volunteers who cleaned the GEO club’s adopted section of Mallard Creek on March 16. If you’re interested in joining GEO for future events, contact Valerie Reynolds (vreynol2@charlotte.edu) and follow GEO on Instagram @unccltgeo! Below is a gallery of photos taken from the clean up:
Dr. Veronica Westendorff, a landscape architect and recent graduate of the Ph.D. in Infrastructure and Environmental Systems (INES) program, shares findings from her research on tree canopy, heat islands, and potential strategies for cooling in Charlotte with WFAE. Dr. Westendorff, Dr. Idziorek, and a multidisciplinary team of Geography and Earth Sciences researchers are working to […]
The GEO club held its February meeting at Charlotte’s Lambla Gallery to view Erratic Accretion, an art exhibition by Milwaukee-based artist Nicole Shaver. Nicole joined via Zoom to provide context for the exhibition and share her interests in the intersection of art and science as well as the significance of place. Among the art pieces were mineral samples from the department’s Orchard […]
M.S. Earth Sciences student Jasen Greco received a poster award at the recent American Meteorological Society Student Conference in Baltimore, MD. His study, entitled “Idealized Simulations of SUpercell Thunderstorm Interactions Near Stationary Boundaries,” was particularly lauded for its organization and clarity. Congratulations, Jasen! For a larger version of the poster, see below.
Dr. Katherine Idziorek (co-PI), along with collaborators Chen Chen, Ph.D. (PI, Oklahoma State University) and Stephen Wong, Ph.D. (collaborator, University of Alberta) were recently awarded an NSF Disaster Resilience Research Grant (DRRG) to study Place-Based, Human-Centered Networks to Enhance Community Resilience and Equity. The research will focus on opportunities and challenges associated with the integration of […]
Douglas Shoemaker, director of research and outreach at the Center for Applied GIScience, was featured in a WBTV segment February 2 talking about a recent study that measured the loss of Charlotte’s signature tree canopy. In his interview with Jamie Boll, originally recorded in 2020, Doug remarks on his surprise regarding the magnitude of canopy loss, […]
23 Undergraduate meteorology majors, four graduate students and two faculty traveled north to Baltimore, MD for the annual American Meteorological Conference. Students participated in a packed two-day agenda where they met peers, university faculty, and professional meteorologists from across the country. Graduate students Jasen Greco and Logan Twohey presented posters during the Sunday evening research […]
On January 9, GES Assistant Professor Jack Scheff appeared on WFAE (Charlotte NPR)’s flagship daily current-affairs show Charlotte Talks to discuss recent developments on climate change in North Carolina and beyond. The hourlong panel was hosted by WFAE’s Mike Collins and included experts from the NOAA Climate Prediction Center and from NC State University. Listen to audio here.
GES faculty and graduate students presented their research at the Southeast Division’s American Association of Geographers’ (SEDAAG) Conference in Norfolk, VA, Nov 19-20, 2023. Dr. Bill Graves and Dr. Michael Ewers presented in the Innovations in Economic Geography paper session. Dr. Ewers’ paper on the US Hydrogen Hub Program was co-authored with Environmental Studies Major Caitlin Conrecode. Dr. […]