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Brian Magi
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Geography and Earth Sciences
UNC Charlotte
McEniry 331
9201 University City Blvd
Charlotte, NC 28223-0001Meta
Tag Archives: fire
AGU session to explore drivers of fire
I’m excited to be hosting an American Geophysical Union (AGU) session in December 2017 and excited about only having to fly to New Orleans instead of San Francisco. This is the first time in many many years that AGU has … Continue reading
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Tagged AGU, climate-fire interactions, fire, human-fire interactions, pyrogeography
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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
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Tagged AAG, climate-fire interactions, fire, global environmental change, human-fire interactions, interdisciplinary research, pyrogeography
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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
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Tagged fire, human-fire interactions, interdisciplinary research, pyrogeography
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Human and climate connections with fire activity
Last week, I got to revisit my research in an informal UNC Charlotte CAGIS Seminar amidst the teaching responsibilities that swarm in on me during the academic year. This forced me to set aside some time to think about research, … Continue reading
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Tagged climate-fire interactions, fire, GES, human-fire interactions, speaker series
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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
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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
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Tagged fire, global environmental change, human-fire interactions, lightning, USA
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UNC Charlotte undergraduate research
The Meteorology Program here at UNC Charlotte is embedded in the Geography and Earth Sciences Department. We have solid core of undergraduate Meteorology BSc majors and coursework in the major is mostly supported by 4 faculty – Dr Adams, Dr … Continue reading
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Tagged fire, graduate school, lightning, undergraduate research
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Presentations at AMS 2013
Both Daniel and I will be travelling to Austin Texas for the 2013 American Meteorological Society meeting. Thousands of students and scientists attend this meeting to discuss topics ranging from weather forecasting to climate modeling to air quality. My research … Continue reading
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Tagged AMS, fire, lightning, student research
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More lightning and fire research
Daniel Cunningham will continue his research from the CRS program during the 2012-13 academic year with Dr Magi in the form of Independent Study. He presented a poster at the CRS Symposium on 25 July 2012 and discussed his research … Continue reading
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Tagged charlotte research scholars, fire, lightning, student research
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