The 2021 Mid-year Appalachian Energy Summit will be held online with a virtual session on Thursday February 11th, and will be hosted by Appalachian State University. The Mid-year event will be followed by a short series of webinars in February … Continued

ESE Centennial webinar with Jordan Kern Jordan Kern, PhD. ESE Alumnus, is Assistant Professor at the North Carolina State University Department of Forestry and Environmental Resources within the College of Natural Resources. His area of expertise is the stochastic modeling … Continued

Next year, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention will analyze what North Carolinians and residents of a handful of other states flush down their toilets in an effort to detect the coronavirus. With the help of government funding, North … Continued

This year held challenges that few anticipated and brought untold adversity to so many. We are grateful that our research, education and outreach endeavors could continue in modified capacities. The environmental field sites sustained in-person instruction with stringent public health … Continued

Happiest holidays from Mike Piehler + the faculty and staff of the UNC Institute for the Environment. Thank you for your steadfast support this year. Michael Piehler Director, UNC Institute for the Environment Professor, Marine Sciences and Environmental Sciences and … Continued

Think of it as a link in a chain. This one starts below the streets of a college campus, where people wrapped in personal protective equipment collect human waste from pipes snaking from student dormitories. Just 24 hours after those … Continued

The UNC Institute for the Environment recently received $319,000 to connect students and teachers in Northeastern North Carolina with field-based geoscience learning opportunities. Geoscience Teaching Outdoors in NC, also known as GET OUT in NC, will take advantage of the … Continued

Think of it as a link in a chain. This one starts below the streets of a college campus, where people wrapped in personal protective equipment collect human waste from pipes snaking from student dormitories. Just 24 hours after those … Continued

“Solutions for environmental health protection developed through the NIEHS Superfund Research Program” Dr. Suk is Chief, Hazardous Substances Research Branch, and Director, Superfund Hazardous Substances Basic Research and Training Program [Superfund Research Program], National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences (NIEHS), … Continued

We must move faster and smarter to transform and decarbonize our energy system. Climate change, the COVID-19 pandemic, related economic challenges, and social inequity are among the challenges we are facing as we work to accelerate the clean energy transition. … Continued