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Brian Magi
brian dot magi at charlotte dot edu
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Geography and Earth Sciences
UNC Charlotte
McEniry 331
9201 University City Blvd
Charlotte, NC 28223-0001Meta
Category Archives: Research News
Unusually Bad Air Quality in North Carolina
Many communities in western North Carolina and in the Queen City of Charlotte have been and continue to be impacted by smoke pollution from fires on the eastern side of the Appalachian Mountains near Lake Lure and South Mountain State … Continue reading
Posted in Research News
Tagged aerosols, air quality, PM2.5, Pollution
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Pyrogeography at the AAG Conference
Another major conference is on the horizon – the Association of American Geographers (AAG) meeting which is in Chicago this year. Check #AAG15. Conferences are absolutely critical for multidisciplinary/interdisciplinary research, and I think for just about all research. Science, like … Continue reading
Posted in Group News, Research News
Tagged AAG, climate-fire interactions, fire, global environmental change, human-fire interactions, interdisciplinary research, pyrogeography
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Climate change and debate
An interesting article about the amazing climate change humans are causing was published by the UNC Charlotte campus newspaper back in Spring 2014, but it’s worth re-visiting as our atmosphere once again reached 400 ppm CO2 concentration. The piece was … Continue reading
Posted in Earth System Observer, Research News
Tagged climate, global environmental change, global warming, teaching
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Attending AMS 2015 in Phoenix
MESAS students Warren Pettee and Thomas Winesett and I will be attending AMS 2015 (#AMS2015), along with many others from UNC Charlotte. I heard the count was about 8 undergraduate students from the Meteorology Program. Professor Casey Davenport and I … Continue reading
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Tagged AMS, GES, lightning, research, student research, undergraduate research
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Funded graduate research assistant for fire modeling project
This is an advertisement I am circulating around to listserves and colleagues to recruit a graduate student (Masters or PhD) into my recently-funded NSF research project. The grant title is “Collaborative Research: Testing Hypotheses About Fire Using Data Syntheses and … Continue reading
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Tagged fire, human-fire interactions, Prospective Students, pyrogeography, student research
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Call for Abstracts for Pyrogeography session at AAG 2015
This is a post that I will link via twitter. If you are interested in presenting your Pyrogeography research at the Association of American Geographers 2015 annual meeting in Chicago in late April 2015, please submit an Abstract and send … Continue reading
Posted in Earth System Observer, Research News
Tagged fire, human-fire interactions, interdisciplinary research, pyrogeography
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Beijing air quality and agricultural fires
As I browsed through my favorite twitter feeds which includes @BeijingAir and the other US Embassies, I saw there was some really really poor air quality in Beijing. The US Embassies in China tweet particulate matter 2.5 (PM2.5) concentrations in … Continue reading
Posted in Earth System Observer, Research News
Tagged air quality, data analysis, data visualization, fire, fire seasonality, NASA, publications, twitter
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Interactive USA wildfire map from Climate Central
Amazing what a team of scientists, techs, and a pile of data will bring you. I tried to embed a great map interface by the group at Climate Central here, but it didn’t work so here’s a screenshot of the … Continue reading
Posted in Earth System Observer, Research News
Tagged fire, global environmental change, human-fire interactions, lightning, USA
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Charlotte Research Scholars 2013
Cross-posted from a campus-wide announcement. I participated as a CRS mentor in Summer 2012 and have volunteered to participate again this summer. Please let me know if you’re interested in working on a project – this is a great chance … Continue reading
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Tagged CRS, undergraduate research
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Science meeting in Austin Texas
If you’re an undergraduate in physics, math, or a related field, and thinking about graduate school options, my colleague Professor Manda Adams and I will be in Austin, Texas from January 5-11 2013 for the American Meteorological Society Student Conference … Continue reading
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Tagged AMS, interdisciplinary research, student research
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