GES Students to Receive Student Excellence Awards

Congrats to Shannon Lloyd (senior Geography major) and Ashley Rose (senior Environmental & Sustainability Studies + Biology major) for being awarded Student Excellence Awards. This is UNCG’s highest academic honor for undergrads. Well done!  

Roger Bardsley has written another blog post for APA-NC

Roger Bardsley (PhD candidate) has recently written a blog post on “The City of Edinburgh, Scotland” for the American Planning Association of North Carolina website. His blog post can be found in this link, http://apa-nc.org/the-city-of-edinburgh-scotland/.  Congratulations to Roger!

Tyler Mitchell publishes on longleaf pine climate sensitivity

Congratulations to M.A. student Tyler Mitchell for his article “Comparison of climate-growth responses of montane and piedmont longleaf pine (Pinus palustris Mill.) chronologies in North Carolina”, which was published in the journal Trees: Structure and Function.  The article is co-authored with Carolina Tree-Ring Science Laboratory alumnus Dr. Thomas Patterson. A… Continue reading…

Dr. Rick Bunch and the “Index of Southerness”

In collaboration with the Halsey Institute at the College of Charleston, Dr. Rick Bunch mapped the landscape of the South. Available via a web mapping application, the maps represents everything from place names to data collected on chicken sales and churchgoers, among other topics. Available on interactive technology inside the… Continue reading…

Firoozeh Karimi published in Computer, Environment, and Urban Systems

Firoozeh Karimi–a PhD candidate recently published a paper in Computer, Environment, and Urban Systems, which developed an urban growth modeling for Guilford County with a Machine Learning technique— Support Vector Machine (SVM). Her paper concluded that SVM method can substantially improve the prediction accuracy of urban expansion. Therefore, SVM technique… Continue reading…

Shannon Brewer, CFM, PMP – (B.A. 2000) promotion

Shannon Brewer, CFM, PMP, works for Dewberry firm and has been promoted to associate vice president and serves as a department manager in the Atlanta office. She has extensive experience managing Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) flood insurance study projects. Additionally, Brewer provides guidance to communities in the areas of floodplain… Continue reading…