This guest post was written by Adam Gold. Adam is a second-year master’s student in the Curriculum for the Environment and Ecology (CEE) working at UNC IMS. He works in the Piehler Lab researching urban stormwater and its effects on water quality. Follow him on twitter at @acgold_04 for tweets about science and stormwater. This past summer, … Continue reading
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Megan’s Field Work Musings
Oceanographic field work has to take place in – you guessed it – the ocean. Most of the time, I sit at my computer and play with Matlab scripts and gigantic stores of data, but every so often one of my fellow Seim lab graduate students (and researcher at the Coastal Studies Institute) Mike Muglia … Continue reading
Greetings from Lake Taihu!
Today’s blog post was written by Alex Hounshell, one of our regular bloggers. Since Alex is abroad with limited internet access, her post is being published by our general UNdertheC account. Last blog post I wrote about the logistics (and my reservations) about conducting scientific research abroad. Today, I write from abroad. From Taihu, China … Continue reading
Photography Friday: IMS Field Summer
For a marine scientist, one of the best parts of North Carolina’s Outer Banks is access to some incredible habitats. I have been able to experience this first-hand as I’ve started my MS research here at UNC’s Institute of Marine Sciences (IMS) this summer. About half of the students in our Marine Sciences department have … Continue reading