Galapagos
Water
Dr. Larry Murdoch

Galapagos Field Site opens this spring

This Spring, the UNC Institute for the Environment opens its new Galapagos Field Site for spring semester study. Students have the opportunity to explore the unique ecology of the archipelago and learn about the challenges at the intersection of environmental conservation and societal needs.

Faculty Council endorses water as central campus theme

At its Dec. 9 meeting, the council passed the resolution to adopt water as a two-year theme and requested that the faculty chair and executive vice chancellor and provost take the necessary steps to bring the idea to fruition.

Presentation on natural gas production from shale

Dr. Larry Murdoch will visit UNC to present "To Frac or Not to Frac? Risks and Rewards of Natural Gas Production from Shale" on January 31st at 5:00 PM in the Tate Turner Kuralt Auditorium on campus.

Events

Dr. Larry Murdoch: To Frac or Not to Frac?
January 31, 2012 5:00 PM

Symposium: Can We Heal Our Local Waterways?
February 11, 2012 9:00 AM

11th Annual CMAS Conference
October 15, 2012 - Oct 17, 2012

Water and Health: Where Science Meets Policy Conference 2012
October 29, 2012 - Nov 2, 2012

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Featured Research

Jen Horney

Dr. Jen Horney receives grant to study community resilience to natural disasters

With grants from the USDA and the NSF, Dr. Horney (UNC CPHP) will study rural and coastal resiliency to natural disasters in the southeastern United States. Other members of Horney's research team include Phil Berke and David Salvesen (CSCD), Mai Nguyen (DCRP), and John Cooper (MDC and IE BOV member).