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Nov 09, 2021
  • GPE

Rob Howard Awarded an Environmental Enhancement Grant

Rob Howard (Co-Director, ECU Center for Geographic Information Science) has been awarded an Environmental Enhancement Grant from the North Carolina Attorney General’s Office. He will be working with co-PIs Mike...

Sep 11, 2021
  • GPE

Dr. Petersen-Perlman Part of WRC Project to Receive $5M CoPe Award

Dr. Petersen-Perlman is part of a $5M Coastlines and People project led by the ECU Water Resources Center and sponsored by the National Science Foundation. The project team includes faculty...

Jun 11, 2021
  • GPE

DGPE Faculty Part of Project Mapping COVID-19 Trends in ENC

The Department of Geography, Planning, and Environment (DGPE) faculty were part of a collaboration in 2021 between ECU, Vidant Health, and Dartmouth College to map spatiotemporal COVID-19 trends in Eastern...

Apr 16, 2021
  • GPE

Social Justice Colloquium April 2021

Friday, April 16, 2021 @ 3:30pm EST WebEx Meeting Meeting Number: 120 412 1930 Meeting Password: ExZpyV27rh5 Danielle Purifoy, PhD Title: What is Environmental Racism For? Additional Information

Mar 19, 2021
  • GPE

DGPE Colloquium March 2021

Friday, March 19, 2021 @ 3:30pm EST WebEx Meeting Meeting Number: 138 121 6167 Meeting Password: gJfT4wMr3y3 Elliot D. Wickham, PhD South Carolina Water Resources Climatologist SC State Climatology Office...

Feb 19, 2021
  • GPE

Social Justice Colloquium February 2021

Friday, February 19, 2021 @ 3:30pm EST WebEx Meeting Meeting Number: 120 412 1930 Meeting Password: ExZpyV27rh5 Pallavi Gupta, PhD ABD University of Chapel Hill Title: Geography of Racial Capitalism:...

Jan 29, 2021
  • GPE

DGPE Colloquium January 2021

Friday, January 29, 2021 @ 3:30pm EST WebEx Meeting Meeting Number: 120 615 8586 Meeting Password: 8HMapiw3NV8 (84627493 from phones) Yoo Min Park, PhD Department of Geography, Planning and Environment...

The Outer Banks Gazetteer
Jan 14, 2021
  • Hoyt Alexander

“The Outer Banks Gazetteer”- Upcoming Alumni Publication

The Department of Geography, Planning, and Environment is happy to highlight the upcoming book by alumnus Roger L. Payne (1969, 1972). His most recent book is due out on March...

Sep 15, 2020
  • GPE

Geography’s Environmental Tradition

When most individuals think of geography they automatically retreat to an antiquated view of geographers making maps and studying place names or locational facts. Unfortunately, this commonly held misconception of...

Sep 01, 2020
  • Hoyt Alexander

Two DGPE Students Awarded Undergraduate Research Mini Awards

Vanessa Duran Celis and Maggie Richardson (right) have each been awarded an ECU REDE Undergraduate Research Award. Maggie and Vanessa are seniors in the Department of Geography, Planning and Environment...