The Well features E3P teaching faculty Dr. Carol Hee, who has been award a Johnston Teaching Excellence Award from the university. This award, given annually, commemorates excellent teaching and mentoring to both undergraduate and undergraduate students. Congratulations to Dr. Carol Hee for … Read more
Alumnus Kimathi Muiruri majored in both history and environmental studies. His trajectory at UNC helped him find the intersection between the two, launching his interest in how the destruction of the environment has negatively impacted the global south. Since his … Read more
A new interdisciplinary program in Environment, Ecology and Energy (E³P) will leverage the College’s strengths in natural sciences, social sciences and humanities to teach students how to best manage resources in an ever-changing world. Greg Gangi started the UNC Clean Tech Summit … Read more
How my summer fieldwork propelled my dissertation… This past summer (2016), I started the fieldwork component of my dissertation research on coral reef ecology with Dr. John Bruno by conducting research in Belize and Mexico. In May, I traveled to … Read more
Planning for an unknowable future: uncertainty in climate change adaptation planning by Sierra C. Woodruff – Climatic Change, available at: http://rdcu.be/kIv2 As a graduate student, there is a lot of uncertainty in my life: When will I finish my degree? … Read more
On Monday, August 22nd, 2016 UNC’s Curriculum in Environment and Ecology welcomed it’s new Graduate Students for the Fall 2016 Semester. The newcomers were greeted with a light breakfast and some mingling with current students and faculty followed by an … Read more
Clare Fieseler helped coach UNC journalism school students as they created short documentaries and articles about the changing region of Bocas del Toro, Panama. Visit the Bocas del Toro Documentary website and learn more.
Pam Jagger and colleagues Jason West (GSGPH, UNC), Andy Grieshop (NSCU), and Rob Bailis (Stockholm Environment Institute), in collaboration with Drs. Charles Jumbe and Thabbie Chilongo at the Lilongwe University of Agriculture and Natural Resources (LUANAR) in Malawi have been … Read more
(from UNM Ricardo González-Pinzón’s lab website) From May 8th through June 11th, with support from the 2015 CUASHI Pathfinder Graduate Student Fellowship Program, Kaylyn will work on answering some of her dissertation research questions in New Mexico’s Jemez River basin. … Read more
Both state and federal policymakers and managers are using doctoral student Rachel Gittman’s dissertation research as they address coastal management challenges. “The policy implications of her rigorous and inspired research on how to minimize loss of coastal marsh ecosystem services … Read more
