The objective of the Guaymas Basin expedition is to collect samples – using the deep-sea submersible Alvin – to explore the genomic potential, physiological capabilities and biogeochemical roles of key uncultured microorganisms from Guaymas Basin sediments. The Guaymas Basin is … Read more
2016 APS/DFD Milton van Dyke Award winning poster presented at the DFD Gallery of Fluid Motion: Turbulent Horizontal Convection at High Prandtl Numbers (P0028) Ocean circulation is a network of currents that flows around the world. The thermohaline circulation, … Read more
UNC Marine Sciences’ is proud to host Dr. Chris Bowler as the Gussenhoven sponsored lecturer. Presenter Affiliation: Dr. Chris Bowler is the CNRS Director of Research at the Institut de Biologie de l’Ecole Normale Supérieure in Paris and a scientific coordinator of … Read more
UNC Marince Sciences PhD candidate David Marshall gives his proposal defense titled: Turbulent mixing, circulation and salt transport in a strongly stratified, microtidal, wind-driven estuary.
Understanding the Gulf Environment: Adam Rok’s Research Expedition This fall I participated in a gulf research cruise as part of the ECOGIG Gulf Ecosystem Research Project. This Mooring and Lander cruise was conducted in the Gulf of Mexico, approximately 130 – 150 miles … Read more
Summer 2016 Svalbard Research Cruise by Carol Arnosti, UNC Marine Sciences Professor and Principle Investigator of the Arnosti Lab (Dr. Arnosti’s work focuses mainly within Chemical Oceanography including Microbial Biogeochemistry, Marine Organic Geochemistry; Reactivity of Organic Macromolecules; Role of Bacteria in Degradation) … Read more
The Ph.D. Dissertation Defense of Ian Kroll will be presented at UNC IMS (Institute of Marine Science) seminar room 222 in Morehead City – NC, and streamed to Murray Hall, room 3204 of the Marine Sciences Department, UNC at Chapel … Read more
UNC Marine Sciences Assistant Professor, Wei Mei co-authored a new paper on the increasing intensity of typhoons titled “Intensification of landfalling typhoons over the northwest Pacific since the late 1970s” which was published in the journal Nature Geoscience 9, 753–757 (2016) doi:10.1038/ngeo2792. … Read more
Hurricane Preparation, Down to a Science by Kathleen Onorevole, UNC Marine Sciences M.S. student in Dr. Michael Piehler’s lab (Kathleen also contributes to the UNC Marine Sciences graduate student blog: underthecblog.org) As Hurricane Matthew spins toward North Carolina, most UNC employees … Read more
Restoration of estuarine habitats supports changes in N cycling and removal over time Habitat restoration is a valuable way to curtail environmental degradation. In estuarine systems in North Carolina, oyster reefs and salt marshes are frequently restored together as living … Read more
