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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Why Water Quality Matters
This guest post was written by Kellen Lauer. Kellen just completed her Master’s degree in Marine Sciences at UNC-Chapel Hill. She studies recreational water quality in the Noble lab at UNC’s Institute of Marine Sciences. Kellen’s research focuses on tracking fecal contamination to its source. As the weather takes a turn away from frigid winter … Continue reading
Photography Friday: All Tree Boxes Lead to the Ocean
When you’re in the middle of, say, Indiana, it’s easy to feel disconnected from the ocean. The coastline is hundreds of miles away, and you probably have plenty of environmental problems to worry about closer to home. But marine conservation is not solely the purview of coastal communities: since all rivers ultimately lead to the … Continue reading