UNC Marine Sciences faculty member Adrian Marchetti comments on the new National Microbiome Initiative recently enacted by The White House office of Science and Technology (OSTP). “We need to mine the wealth of knowledge and depth of experience already present … Read more
Carter Smith, a researcher at UNC Institute of Marine Sciences spoke to WNCT about how utilizing living shorelines prevent coastal erosion. On May 17th, 2016 WNCT’s Pierce Legeion spoke with Carter Smith about how recent research indicates that installation of living habitats along … Read more
Dr. Arnosti is doing the English translation for the group’s posts, you can keep up with Dr. Arnosti’s research on the BacGeoPac research cruise blog. The scientists aboard the research vessel Sonne will be in the middle of the Central … Read more
The Castillo Lab was featured in the Undercurrent 360 project, a series of short documentaries and articles about the changing Bocas del Toro region of Panama.
Spring Newsletter – Spotlight: Megan Schutt and Joel Fodrie Megan Schutt Seim Lab, M.S. Candidate What made you decide to study marine sciences? I studied engineering for my undergraduate degree. I joined this marine science department because of the NC … Read more
Update from Andreas Teske’s Research/Study Leave – March My research leave at the Hanse Institute for Advanced Studies in Northern Germany is strengthening the long-standing collaborative ties of my lab to our colleagues working in marine microbiology and geochemistry at … Read more
(Originally posted on Endeavors) Jenny Hughes Senior Jenny Hughes is an undergraduate student majoring in environmental science with a minor in marine science. Her research focuses on the effects of hunger on the foraging behavior of mud crabs within … Read more
(Originally posted on the Carolina Chronicle) Samantha Joye, a leading researcher on the impact of oil and gas seepage in deep ocean environments, will give the keynote address at UNC-Chapel Hill’s 2016 Doctoral Hooding Ceremony. The event recognizes graduate students … Read more
2015 APS/DFD Milton van Dyke Award winning poster presented at the DFD Gallery of Fluid Motion: Variable Density Vortex Ring Dynamics in Sharply Stratified Ambient Fluids (P0050) Vortex rings are commonly found in nature when a flow is impulsively started … Read more
(Originally posted on The Virginian-Pilot) Scientists are working on harnessing energy from the Gulf Stream off Cape Hatteras, N.C., where the ocean flows with more power than all of the world’s rivers combined. Gulf Stream currents might have more … Read more
