MASC T-Shirt Design Contest The Marine Science Department is having a contest for new MASC t-shirts for the new year! On the front will be the logo, but we’re wanting something unique on the back of the shirt. If you … Read more

Preview of Galapagos Short Documentary Courtesy of UNC Research and Mary Lide Parker UNC Research gives us a preview of the short documentary on Gifford, Marchetti, and Seim’s research expedition at the Galapagos Islands.

Balmonte Receives Chancellor’s Doctoral Candidacy Award Congratulations to John Paul Balmonte for receiving a Chancellor’s Doctoral Candidacy Award this August. He received this award based on his successful advancement into Ph.D. candidacy through the Graduate School’s Initiative for Minority Excellence. … Read more

Recognizing North Carolina’s wind-energy potential Original posting on the News and Observer BY HARVEY SEIM  Earlier this summer, the online retailer Amazon announced its plans for a large-scale wind energy facility in northeastern North Carolina. The $400 million project will … Read more

New research furthers understanding of phytoplankton’s role in global carbon cycle Did you know that about 50 percent of the oxygen in our atmosphere, the oxygen in every second breath we take, is produced by tiny microscopic organisms in the … Read more

Arriola and Smith selected as Sea Grant Fellows North Carolina Sea Grant and the N.C. Coastal Reserve and National Estuarine Research Reserve Program awarded a 2015 Coastal Reserve Fellowship to Jill Arriola. This joint program is designed to foster research within … Read more

Study of Giant South China Sea Internal Waves Provides First-Ever View of Their Entire Life Cycle Emerging science could revise sea-level rise predictions, improve undersea navigation, and revolutionize understanding of how nutrients reach coastal marine ecosystems May 05, 2015 Embargoed … Read more

Marchetti Lab Research Cruise [slideshow_deploy id=’5610′] The Marchetti Lab is participating on a research cruise aboard the R/V Melville along the California coast during July 2014 to investigate the ecological importance of iron storage in diatoms. Miriam Sutton, a middle … Read more

Original posting on the UNC College and Arts website. Buoys to capture important wind and weather data off N.C. coast The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill will deploy two large buoys 20 miles offshore of the coast and … Read more

WOWS Scholars inspire women faculty in the sciences Have you noticed fewer women in faculty positions in the science departments? It’s a nationwide trend, but a campus-wide initiative called Working on Women in Science (WOWS) is trying to change that. … Read more