About E3P?

This enriching, integrated curriculum equips students with natural science and social science research and innovation skills to holistically address complex and contentious, local and global environmental issues, and strive to achieve environmental justice in decision making. 

Explore

We explore systems on our planet through research and applied solutions. 

Propel

We bring together natural and social sciences to propel North Carolina as a leader in local and global environmental research and innovation. 

Elevate

We elevate research into understanding by investigating the diverse and interactive systems that regulate the environment, including consequences for humans and other organisms.

Committed

We are committed to educating students to improve understanding for future generations. 

Topics presented by students from academic year 2023-2024:

Helena Garcia | 3rd year Graduate Student: Dynamic Vulnerability: Reconstructing Historical Flood Footprints and Exposure In Eastern NC
Camryn Blawas| 2nd year Graduate Student: Water Temperature Changes in Coastal NC
Sally Dowd | 2nd year Graduate Student: Abiotic and Biotic Associations of Blue Crab Predators
Andrew Zachman | 2nd year Graduate Student: Fire Mediated Forest Structure Influences the Dispersal Dynamics of A Fire Adapted Wind Dispersed Bunchgrasses
Alexis Longmire | 3rd year Graduate Student: Understanding Nursery Dynamics by Moving Beyond Habitat Borders: A Study On Benthic Juvenile Ecology In An Estuarine Landscape