This past fall Dr. Andreas Teske led IODP expedition 385 to the Guaymas Basin as a co-chief scientist. The aim of this expedition was to explore a spreading center in the Gulf of California, the Guaymas Basin, by drilling a … Read more
Dr Joel Fodrie and his PhD student Amy Yarnall talk about scallops and sea grass in this UNC-TV feature of their NSF-Bio supported science. Interestingly this clip is from a NY public broadcast station, I’ve not seen it air in … Read more
Institute of Marine Sciences assistant professor Joel Fodrie discusses a new plan proposed to benefit oysters and other mariculture. https://www.coastalreview.org/2019/01/session-ahead-oysters-storm-damage-pfas/
This past semester, Fall 2019, professor Brent McKee of the marine science department and Bland Simpson of the English department taught ENGL/MASC 473: Creative non-fiction: The Changing Coasts of Carolina. “There is a very big gap in the hard sciences … Read more
A 2019 fall capstone project on the water quality of the Beaufort estuary was featured in Coastal Review Online. Find out more about the project at https://www.coastalreview.org/2020/01/coastal-research-would-you-swim-here/
Scientists at UNC’s Geological Sciences Department have researched how river ice is affected by global climate change including postdoctoral scholar, Xiao Yang, a postdoctoral scholar, Tamlin Pavelsky, UNC associate professor of Global Hydrology, and George Allen, a PhD student in … Read more
The N&O quotes Mike Piehler, a Gillings School of Global Public Health and Institute of Marine Sciences professor, from a report that suggested that Wake County towns that take drinking water from Jordan Lake should help pay for cleaning it … Read more
