IMS professor Rachel Noble talks about what happens to marine life after storms. https://unc.us13.list-manage.com/track/click?u=d57d961478ca5cef05dffd8f1&id=d0165f2760&e=5c9d1e8c3d

Department of environmental sciences and engineering and department of marine sciences professor Rachel Noble talks about the safety of North Carolina’s beaches this weekend after Hurricane Florence. http://www.govtech.com/em/disaster/How-to-Stay-Safe-Around-Polluted-Floodwaters-Beaches.html

In this week’s podcast, water-quality expert Hans Paerl discusses the damage caused by Hurricane Florence and the dangers left behind by hurricanes: pollutants in the watershed that could poison people and kill fish. https://www.unc.edu/discover/well-said-hurricanes-and-water-quality/ 

Institute of Marine Sciences director and professor Rick Luettich discusses Hurricane Florence before it hit last week with WUNC, PBSNewsHour, FiveThirtyEight, CNN, Nature, Carolina Coast Online and Capitol Tonight. Read the article here.

Institute of Marine Sciences director and professor Rick Luettich talks about North Carolina’s choice to develop and the push against climate change research. Luettich also spoke with NPR about coastal development in the state, sea level rise and related legislation. Read the … Read more

A couple of clips from Martìn Benavides’ interviews yesterday. https://wcti12.com/news/local/shark-bites-teen-at-atlantic-beach http://www.witn.com/content/news/OFFICIALS-14-year-old-bitten-by-shark-at-Atlantic-Beach-491216721.html

Great piece in the N&O about UNC-CH Biology PhD student Lewis Naisbett-Jones’ research on American eels. https://www.newsobserver.com/news/local/article216774145.html For anyone who doesn’t know, Lewis is the one with the experiment down in the IMS maritime forest – he & his techs … Read more

Great informative piece in the N&O Wednesday on sting rays, featuring Dr Joel Fodrie. Worth a read! Great work, Dr Fodrie. http://www.newsobserver.com/news/local/article216678365.html

Coastal Review Online picked up coverage of Piehler Lab alumna Kathleen Onorevole’s new paper on nitrogen removal in living shorelines https://www.coastalreview.org/2018/08/study-living-shorelines-help-water-quality/

Research Associate Dr Nathan Hall was WNCT 9 last night talking about algal blooms & red tides https://www.wnct.com/news/local-news/marine-scientists-say-red-tides-are-unlikely-in-enc/1357374587