EOS Senior Lecturer Roger Shew was recently featured by both the Port City Daily and WHQR for his conservation efforts presented to the Wilmington City Council. You can read the articles using the links below.

EOS students in Dr. Shannon Klotsko’s Seafloor Mapping course recently learned how to work with different types of sonar data. In the photo, students process multibeam sonar data using the software Qimera sponsored by QPS @qps.official

EOS Professor Yalei You was recently interviewed by the local WWAY news regarding the Wilmington area's recent snowstorm and links with climate change. You can watch the interview and read an article at:

EOS Prof Zijun Yang recently coauthored a new paper in the Journal of Selection Topics in Applied Earth Observations and Remote Sensing titled "Multistream STGAN: A spatiotemporal image fusion model with improved temporal transferability". See it at:

EOS Prof Ralph Mead and other UNCW faculty recently published a new paper in the journal Organic Chemistry entitled "The giant barrel sponge Xestospongia muta takes up dissolved organic matter from benthic cyanobacterial mats". See the paper at:

EOS Prof Shannon Klotsko (far right) recently gave a talk at the AGU meeting in Washington, D.C. on her research along the Greenland continental margin. Dr. Klotsko's talk was entitled "Geomorphic evidence for a slope terminating ice sheet in northwest Greenland".

MS Geoscience grad Susie Adams (right) and current student Kendal Ward (left) celebrate their successful presentations at the American Geophysical Union Meeting in Washington, D.C.! Both Susie and Kendal are advised by EOS Prof Scott Nooner #uncw #uncweos #uncwresearch #agu24

MS Geoscience graduate and soon-to-be ACOS PhD student Erin Gregory recently presented her thesis research at the American Geophysical Union meeting in Washington, D.C. Erin is advised by EOS Professor Shannon Klotsko. #uncw #uncweos #uncwresearch #agu24

ACOS PhD student Chris Blanco recently presented his research at the AGU Meeting in Washington, D.C. Chris' poster presentation was titled "Reconstructing Coastal Hazards in the Central Aleutian Islands, AK". Chris is advised by EOS Professor Andrea Hawkes @UncwSLL

EOS was well represented at the American Geophysical Union Meeting in Washington, D.C.! Among the EOS Seahawks who attended AGU was MS Geoscience student Bethni Aloka (pictured), who presented a poster on her thesis research. More AGU posts to follow!

EOS Senior Lecturer Roger Shew was recently interviewed by regarding proposed development of Sledge Forest, an flood-prone area along the northeastern Cape Fear River in New Hanover County. You can read the article at:

EOS Professor Andrea Hawkes' and colleagues' research on tsunami hazards in the Pacific Northwest (see our last post) was featured on the front page of The Washington Post! You can read the full article by Carolyn Johnson at:

EOS Professor Andrea Hawkes' (@UncwSLL ) and colleague's research of tsunami hazards in the Pacific Northwest was recently featured in a Washington Post article. See the article at:

EOS Prof Peter Haproff coauthored a new paper in the journal 'Earth-Science Reviews" titled "Precambrian tectonic evolution of the Qaidam block, northern Tibet: Implications for the assembly and breakup of Proterozoic supercontinents". See the paper at:

The MS Geoscience Fall Symposium was a success! During this EOS event, new MS students give presentations on their proposed research projects, while veteran students provide updates on their work. Photo no. 1: Kalena Walker. Photo no. 2: Cody Allen.

Big congratulations to the Fall 2024 graduates of the Certificate in Geospatial Intelligence (GEOINT), Kalena Walker (left) and Azaleah Iniguez (right). The EOS GEOINT program is led by Professor Peng Gao.

EOS undergrads enrolled in Structural Geology (GLY 441) recently used a sandbox to create a fold-and-thrust belt, similar to the Himalaya, Alps, and Appalachians. Strata are composed of coffee grounds and different colored sand. The course is taught by Prof Peter Haproff

EOS Prof Zijun Yang recently coauthored a paper in the Journal of Selected Topics in Applied Earth Observations and Remote Sensing titled "Multi-stream STGAN: A Spatiotemporal ImageFusion Model with Improved Temporal Transferability". See it at: 10.1109/JSTARS.2024.3506879

THESIS DEFENSE ANNOUNCEMENT: EOS undergraduate Mia Stahl will defend her Honors Thesis on Thursday, December 5th at 10 AM in DeLoach Hall room 113. Mia’s thesis is entitled “ Per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances contamination of stormwater: an understudied environment”.

EOS seeks an outstanding faculty member for a tenure-track Assistant Professor in Sedimentology and Stratigraphy beginning in August 2025. Please see the full job ad and link to apply at: The deadline for applications is February 4th, 2025.