Bookmark This – Featuring Hans Paerl UNC Marine and Environmental Sciences Professor Kenan R. William Paerl has co-edited a new book which provides state-of-the-art coverage of climate change effects on estuarine ecosystems from local, regional and global perspectives. … Read more

  A new research paper published in Science Advances reveals how changes in the size of the Yangtze River watershed may have led to the carving of deep canyons.   In this study, UNC-Chapel Hill Professor and EMES Department Chair Eric Kirby and … Read more

  Measuring Water from Space The Surface Water and Ocean Topography (SWOT) satellite is a collaboration between NASA and the French space agency. It will produce the first global survey of Earth’s surface water — and Pavelsky, a UNC-Chapel Hill … Read more

$2.5m NSF Grant for Center for Galapagos Studies Researchers   UNC researchers Adrian Marchetti and Harvey Seim in the Department of Earth, Marine and Environmental Sciences, alongside researchers from MBARI and University of Texas, Rio Grande Valley, recently received a … Read more

Toxic Algae Blooms are the New Normal as the World Warms and CO2 Levels Keep Rising   Click here to read the Wired Magazine Article! Click here to read the ARS Technica Article!

Study of Estuaries Finds Lower Acidification than in Oceans Research Assistant Professor Nathan Hall with the University of North Carolina Chapel Hill Institute of Marine Sciences in Morehead City and co-author of the study explained that eutrophication is effectively causing, … Read more

Hans Pearl was included in Research.com 2023 Ranking of Best Scientists in Environmental Sciences that has just been published here: https://research.com/scientists-rankings/environmental-sciences. Hans is ranked 44 in the worked and 24 in the United States. He is listed as number 1 … Read more

The EMES department is pleased to announce that Aundre Jackson has received the 2023 National Defense Science and Engineering Graduate (NDSEG) Fellowship Award (https://ndseg.org/) to support his PhD research and education. He was awarded this highly competitive fellowship in recognition … Read more

Thank you for making the 2023 PerkinElmer Student Research Symposium a successful and memorable event.  It was a rare opportunity for the EMES community to spend the day together and focus on student research.  We enjoyed oral and poster presentations … Read more

As extreme weather events become more often and intensify, the number of people and places exposed to flooding events is likely to grow. But until now, surprisingly little was known about how floodplain development patterns vary across communities. A new … Read more