.UNC IMS undergraduates spent the fall semester learning what the new ponds created on the North Core Banks during 2019's Hurricane Dorian mean for Cape Lookout​. coastalreview.org/2021/12/studen…

Want this to be your classroom? There’s still time to register to spend the fall at Carolina’s marine lab. Small classes, hands-on field & research experiences, & having an unbelievable semester. Still have questions? Reach out to Dr Antonio B Rodriguez. ie.unc.edu/education/fiel…

PhD student Josh Himmelstein was recently awarded the 2022 APNEP/NC Sea Grant Fellowship! For his fellowship, Josh plans to install arrays of low-cost, open-source sensors across coastal NC marshes in order to study sediment delivery. Congrats, Josh! ncseagrant.ncsu.edu/news/2022/03/n…

Happy Earth Day Antonio B Rodriguez (high five)!

On a windy day in May, the Antonio B Rodriguez Lab field season commences. Cue Muddy Waters

Our water-level loggers were buried by sand overwash on North Core Banks. Here Lillian and David, two UNC Dept of Earth, Marine & Environmental Sciences undergrads researchers, extract one. Also, see the last photo for hooval evidence of a bovine wanderer on this remote barrier island.

Curious to understand what rip currents are & how to spot them when you go to the beach? Tune in to News 12 tonight at 5 & 6 to learn more from coastal geology PhD student Joshua Himmelstein.

Carbon accumulation rates are highest at young and expanding salt marsh edges disq.us/t/49m96v6

We gave this photo away to the journal, but it was taken by Joshua Himmelstein. He always enhances our days in the field with great shots UNC IMS nature.com/commsenv/

had a great dinner last night to welcome the field site students to Morehead City! can't wait to see what this semester will bring ~

#FDOC, UNC marine lab style.

Happy to TA this fall for several field site courses here at UNC IMS, where a typical workday includes a tour of local living shorelines from our in-house experts Dr. Johanna Rosman and Dr. Niels Lindquist. Not a bad gig…

I had a very informative trip to our impressive UNC IMS facility in Morehead City last week, meeting with faculty and undergrads. I tagged along as our excellent students went out on Bogue Sound in the rain to collect sediment cores to understand how NC estuaries evolve.

Best classroom at Carolina! Yesterday, we collected & identified invertebrates in the Beaufort Channel. Then we went back to the lab to ID them. Awesome Monday The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill!

Salt #marshes are a sought-after habitat for carbon credits, but varying accumulation rates make quantification difficult. New research helps make C credit calculations more accurate. buff.ly/3wDqxJN Nathan McTigue @MollyBost @ceebeee11 Antonio B Rodriguez Nature Communications

It was easy to miss UNC IMS's brick headquarters in Morehead City when driving by, so IMS partnered with NC artists to create a mural on the side of their building -- a piece of art that celebrates 75 years of marine science research and service to the State of North Carolina.

Did you catch the first field site blog post? Check it out! Stay tuned for a new post later this week.

Have you met UNC Environment, Ecology and Energy Program graduate student Andrew Zachman? He studies the impact of forest stand structure and fire frequency on wind dispersed seeds of herbaceous plants. Giving the terrestrial lidar scanner work out! (Thanks Antonio B Rodriguez)

The 2022 UNC Dept of Earth, Marine & Environmental Sciences grad student retreat was amazing! Loved spending time outdoors with fellow students and learning about some cool science. And HUGE thank you to Janet Nye and Antonio B Rodriguez for spending some time with us ☀️