(Originally posted on Endeavors.)   Junior Francesca Peay is an undergraduate researcher majoring in environmental studies with a minor in marine sciences. She works in the Coastal Environmental Change Lab, and her research looks at how dune height affects beachfront … Read more

By KATHLEEN ONOREVOLE Kathleen Onorevole is a master’s student in Michael Piehler’s lab at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill’s Institute of Marine Sciences in Morehead City. She studies the impact of ecological restoration on nutrient cycling. There are two … Read more

Richard A. Luettich, Jr. has been reappointed to the Southeast Louisiana Flood Protection Authority – East Board of Commissioners. (Source)

Moreno in Antarctica! Ph.D. student Carly Moreno (Marchetti Lab) is participating on the PalmerLTER research cruise in Antarctica. For the next 6 weeks, Carly will be collecting samples and performing incubation experiments to investigate the environmental factors that regulate phytoplankton … Read more

Structural Equation Modeling Workshop Seventeen PhD students from UNC (and four from Duke) just completed 6 days of instruction in Structural Equation Modeling. Last week, UNC hosted an all-day, student-organized workshop funded by all three departments (BIOL, ENEC, and MASC). The workshop was instructed … Read more