Beginning in the fall of 2019, UNCG will offer two new sustainability degrees at the graduate level. Students in the M.A. in Applied Geography will have the option of a concentration in sustainability. And students in any graduate degree program or who are considering a graduate degree will be able… Continue reading…
Congratulations to UNCG alumnus Dr. Thomas Patterson (PhD 2017) who has been hired as an assistant professor of geography at the University of Southern Mississippi beginning fall 2019. Dr. Patterson is a physical geographer with a focus on dendroclimatology and dendroecology.
Dr. Debbage has just published a book chapter titled “Geographies of Tourism Entrepreneurship and Innovation: An Evolving Research Agenda” by Edward Elgar Publishing. It is part of a larger book edited by Dieter Muller titled “A Research Agenda for Tourism Geographies” and it featured at the AAG Exhibit Hall at… Continue reading…
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 (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!
Dr. Wenliang “Will” Li spoke to a full house on February 28 at the Mid-year App Energy Summit. This annual event, hosted this year by UNCG and co-sponsored by our Department, brings together students, faculty, and leaders in academia and business to exchange ideas, share best practices in support of… Continue reading…
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…
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–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, 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…
