The Department of Environmental, Earth and Geospatial Sciences (DEEGS) has a strong record of interdisciplinary research involving faculty from other departments at NCCU, other UNC institutions, and national and international collaborators. Examples of recently funded projects include Capacity Building to Support the Machine Learning-Based Detection of Floods and Other Natural Hazards (NASA), the Development of a Geospatial Big-Data Infrastructure Supporting Socially and Environmentally Relevant Spatial Decision-Making and Analysis, and High-Resolution Geophysical Investigation of the Lithosphere-Asthenosphere System in the Carpatho-Pannonian Region (Department of Defense). Active areas of research include the following:
- Data science and machine learning: Drs. Tim Mulroney, Chris McGinn, Rakesh Malhotra
- Geospatial analysis and geospatial intelligence: Drs. Tim Mulroney, Chris McGinn, Rakesh Malhotra, and Gordana Vlahovic
- Geohazards: Drs. Tim Mulroney and Gordana Vlahovic
- Electoral geography: Chris McGinn
- Health disparities: Drs. John Bang, Carresse Gerald, Tim Mulrooney
- Water and air quality: Drs. John Bang, Carrese Gerald, Zhiming Yang
- Nanofabrication for environmental remediation: Drs. John Bang and Theophraste Noussi
- Geoscience education: Drs. Tim Mulroney, Chris McGinn, Rakesh Malhotra, John Bang, Carrese Gerald, Zhiming Yang, Gordana Vlahovic and Theophraste Noussi
- Seismotectonics: Gordana Vlahovic