Geography at CofC

09/22/2015

An event that literally changed the shape of the Charleston Lowcountry...

Hurricane Hugo raked the Lowcountry Sept. 21-22, 1989. Thirteen South Carolina residents and 36 elsewhere died as a direct result of the storm. Tens of thousands were left homeless and half the state without electrical power.

09/17/2015

There was a sizable earthquake this week in Chile; but the study of physical geography tells us where other earthquakes are likely...

THE massive earthquakes that hit Nepal on April 25th and May 12th—measuring magnitude 7.8 and 7.3 respectively—took place, as most large earthquakes do, on a...

09/16/2015

The geography of motherhood...

A global look at the hardest and best job ever

09/14/2015

In Awendaw is the northernmost shell ring in the US, a place where Native Americans over 4,000 years ago lived. The shell midden, whose edge is in the foreground, was created from many family dinners... It was a great day for fieldwork in the Lowcountry!

09/04/2015

Dr. Watson, one of the geographers of our department, was involved with the design of this project. Please share across your networks; money will be used to help support CofC students who are also working on this project, to better understand how to adapt to climate change...

Understanding Indigenous Knowledge of fisheries for assessing ecosystem health | Crowdfunding is a democratic way to support the fundraising needs of your community. Make a contribution today!

09/02/2015

On the politics of place names... Obama announced this week that the highest mountain in the US will revert to the name bestowed upon it by Alaska Natives, the Athabascan name "Denali," or "the high one."

In 1901, William McKinley, 25th president of the United States, was struck down by an assassin’s bullet six months into his second term. There are towns and monuments and geographic features across America bearing his name—tribute to the fallen leader from a nation wracked by grief. Mount McKinley i…

05/27/2014

A summer read...?

The geographer David Harvey says fixing inequality will take more than tinkering.

02/09/2014

A bit of Urban Historical Geography....

You may know where these neighborhoods are, but do you know what their names mean?

01/20/2014

Really cool maps...that yes, explain the world.

I've searched wide and far for maps that can reveal and surprise and inform in ways that the daily headlines might not.

01/16/2014

AWESOME video of the world of mapping!

If you're like me, you'll need to pause a few times to process the raw informational power.

10/07/2013

GIS interns sought in Senate offices....

Esri has been asked to assist in this search by helping to match suitable interns with the offices. If you are from one of the states above, please share this information on GIS listservs and other venues in and around your campus, and encourage interested students to do two things:

09/28/2013

The new IPCC report is out: consensus on the change in climate being human-induced. Maybe now we can get on with the business of adaptation....

In a landmark report, a global panel of leading scientists again called the evidence for climate change "unequivocal" and for the first time said humans are "extremely likely" to be the dominant cause. Put simply: "Human influence on the climate is clear." And as this map makes clear, the world has…