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Patricia Fall

Geography and Earth Sciences
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Office: McEniry 305
Email: pfall@uncc.edu

Academic Interests
ancient environments
biogeography
climate controls
distribution of terrestrial plants
human environment interactions
human impact
modeling
paleoecology
Related People
Abasifreke Ebong
Sara Gagne

Patricia Fall is a Professor in the Department of Geography & Earth Sciences. She held positions as Professor of Geography at Arizona State University and Charles La Trobe Professor of Geography at La Trobe University in Melbourne, Australia prior to coming to UNCC in 2015.  Pat’s research focuses impacts on ancient landscapes associated with the rise of Bronze Age urbanism in the eastern Mediterranean, as well as on environmental and human dimensions of ecosystem dynamics on islands in the South Pacific and the Bahamas.  Recent publications have appeared in the Proceeding of the National Academy of Sciences, Scientific Reports, Radiocarbon, Ecology, Journal of Archaeological Science, Annals of the Association of American Geographers, Journal of Field Archaeology, Applied Geography, and Vegetation History and Archaeobotany

Research & Teaching Interests

  • Biogeography
  • Paleoecology
  • Human impact on ancient environments
  • Climatic controls on the distribution of terrestrial plants
  • Modeling human-environment interactions
  • Pollen and seed dispersal
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