IMS alumna and adjunct faculty member Dr Rachel Gittman’s research is featured in an article by the Food & Environmental Reporting Network. https://thefern.org/2019/03/as-coastal-flooding-surges-living-shorelines-seen-as-savior/
Institute for the Environment professor and UNC Clean Tech Summit lead organizer Greg Gangi talks about this week’s summit. https://www.wraltechwire.com/2019/02/26/ncs-role-in-clean-energy-economy-is-focus-of-unc-clean-tech-summit/
E3P graduate student Erin Spencer competed in the 2018 Three Minute Thesis completion and won. The Three Minute Thesis (3MT®) is an academic competition where participants have just three minutes to explain the breadth and significance of their research project … Read more
The gentle stream that flows beside McIver Residence Hall hasn’t always been part of the campus landscape. It just looks as though it has. A pipe beneath the street combined with the natural path of rainwater and nearby springs presented … Read more
What do subsurface property rights and flood recovery efforts have to do with colonial Spanish Louisiana and the southern gospel of “good roads”? Thank you for joining us at CSAS for a research poster session featuring the Center’s 2018-19 grant and fellowship recipients. … Read more
Institute of Marine Sciences graduate student Shelby Ziegler talks about her research on different marsh habitats. https://wcti12.com/news/local/student-shows-how-wetlands-impact-fishing-communities
Recent graduate Haley Moser ’18 thought she could study the environment through computer models and virtual simulations. Then she went to the Galápagos. https://campaign.unc.edu/story/carolina-to-cristobal/?utm_source=now_newsletter&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=20180620we&utm_content=haley_moser_title
North Carolina’s marshes continue to fragment every day. Carolina Ph.D. student Shelby Ziegler attempts to rebuild them by gathering data from the healthy wetlands that remain — a feat she often tackles in the middle of the night. https://www.unc.edu/discover/marsh-madness/
Environment and ecology graduate student Erin Spencer shares her experience as a National Geographic Explorer. Spencer has recently received her third grant from the National Geographic Society to look into whether there is a regional Atlantic Coast trend to mislabel … Read more
“I am very pleased to announce that Michael Piehler, MSPH, PhD, has been named director of the UNC Institute for the Environment (IE) and will begin serving in that role on July 1, 2018.” – Terry Magnuson, Vice Chancellor for Research
