The Department of Geography and Earth Sciences is comprised of physical, natural and social scientists from a variety of disciplinary backgrounds. Our mission is to create, extend and disseminate applied and theoretical scientific knowledge of the Earth’s physical, natural and human systems and their interactions through scholarly research, teaching and service. Read more >>
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Continuing its longstanding tradition in the world of applied geographic research, this year the Department of Geography and Earth Sciences will host the Applied Geography Conference in Charlotte, October 23-25, 2019. Students, faculty, policy makers and other researchers from the public, private, and nonprofit sectors will converge on uptown for three days of sharing insights from...
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Doctors Diemer and Eppes are representing UNC Charlotte, presenting their research - on the history of geology and mechanical weathering respectively- at this year’s European Geosciences Union conference held in Vienna, Austria.
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This year there will be over 20 faculty and students at the American Association of Geographers Annual meeting from our department! https://aag.secure-abstracts.com/AAG%20Annual%20Meeting%202019/sessions-gallery
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Our student Meteorology club STORM is running the 5th Annual UNC Charlotte WeatherFest on Friday March 15 from 10am to 4pm at the Hauser Alumni Pavilion on campus. Like previous years, the celebration of weather has been completely organized and led by our undergraduate majors. This year, they even raised money for the event via crowd-funding!
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Antarctica’s unique climate enticed UNC Charlotte earth sciences researcher Martha Cary Eppes and her research colleagues to spend weeks camping in a tent in sub-zero temperatures, in order to literally monitor and listen to rocks as they fracture. They are studying how rocks alter and erode in one of the most extreme environments on the planet.
Eppes has just returned to UNC Charlotte...
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In early January, students and faculty from Geography and Earth Sciences will be representing UNC Charlotte at the American Meteorological Society (AMS) Annual Meeting https://annual.ametsoc.org/index.cfm/2019/ in Phoenix, Arizona. The conference hosts over 4,000 attendees with applied and theoretical research related to...
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Several GES students and faculty attending this year's AGU Fall Meeting in DC. See below for links to their research: Nicholas Golden (Earth Sciences MS) and Jacob Scheff, "Do CMIP5 climate models agree on warming of the atmosphere with latitude and height?" Xiaoyu Bai (INES PhD) and Jacob Scheff, "Energy Budget Analysis of TRACMIP Model Simulations"
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Doctoral student Paul H. Jung received the first prize in the Graduate Student-led Paper Competition at the 2018 Annual North American Meetings of the Regional Science Association International (RSAI) in San Antonio, TX. The award was for a paper co-authored with Drs Jean-Claude Thill and Michele Issel on "Heteroscedasticity Consistent Empirical Bayes Estimator: Areal Prevalence Rate and...
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Jean-Claude Thill received a special Service Award from the Regional Science Association International for services rendered to the association in 2017 and 2018. A plaque was handed out at the 2018 North American Meetings of RSAI in San Antonio TX in November 2018. Dr. Thill has a long-term involvement with the RSAI in various leadership positions.
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Current INES Ph.D. student Matt Gropp was recently selected as the winner of the 2019 Outstanding Master's Thesis Award. His M.S. thesis, titled "Assessing the Impact of the Nocturnal Transition on the Lifetime and Evolution of Supercell Thunderstorms in the Great Plains," was completed in 2017 under the direction of Dr. Casey Davenport. The thesis was chosen by the Graduate School as...
