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91ÉçÇø¸£Àû Marine Laboratory held its annual open house on Saturday, July 13, 2019. Members of the surrounding community were invited to visit the Beaufort, N.C., campus to learn more about the lab and its ongoing research.

William Pan has been named the inaugural Elizabeth Brooks Reid and Whitelaw Reid Associate Professor of Population Studies at 91ÉçÇø¸£Àû’s Nicholas School of the Environment. His appointment became effective July 1.

Karen Kirchof, who influenced the careers of thousands of Nicholas School students during her 27 years as assistant dean and director of the school’s Career and Professional Development Center, died June 20 from pancreatic cancer.

Coal ash solids found in sediments collected from Sutton Lake in 2015 and 2018 suggest the eastern North Carolina lake has been contaminated by multiple coal ash spills, most of them apparently unmonitored and unreported until now.

Community damage caused by extreme weather, such as the 2013 floods that covered parts of Colorado, may shape climate beliefs more strongly than individual storm losses, a new study finds.

A new study finds that shoreline erosion rates can double following the death of plants on wetland edges, such as these marshes in Louisiana’s Barataria Bay that were heavily oiled by 2010’s Deepwater Horizon oil spill.

Keni Rienks (DEL-MEM’19), a science teacher by day, combined her passion for education and STEM to develop a lesson plan on drone use in K-12 education for her Master’s Project (MP).

On May 11, 2019, 91ÉçÇø¸£Àû's Nicholas School of the Environment recognized 187 PhD, Master of Environmental Management, Master of Forestry and DEL-MEM graduates, as well as 47 undergraduates.

Tropical and subtropical fish are taking up residence on shipwrecks and other sunken structures off the North Carolina coast. This pattern may continue or even accelerate in coming years given predictions of warming oceans under climate change, a new study co-led by 91ÉçÇø¸£Àû scientists suggests.