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
Story originally posted Dec 17, 2015 http://www.unc.edu/spotlight/on-the-front-lines/ On the Front Lines Some of the planet’s tiniest organisms are visible from space. Phytoplankton — single-celled, water-dwelling algae — are one-millionth of a meter in size and produce about 50 percent of … 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.
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
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
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
Crabs, supersized by carbon pollution, may upset Chesapeake’s balance The following story was originally published in the Washington Post on April 7th by Darryl Fears. To see the original publication, follow this link. “It is the dawn of the super crab. … Read more
