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Great presentation from UNC IMS PhD student Joshua Himmelstein on incorporating drones into coastal research. I also presented on utilizing drone data in marsh restoration planning. More coming in our next phase of a NCPC funded Currituck Sound project! #CERF2023 CARDNL UNC Institute for the Environment

Now hiring: Undergraduate research assistant for Spring 2024! Paid $15/hr, 12hr/week Work directly with us on an ongoing project using drone-based approaches to address coastal resiliency in Currituck Sound, NC! 🌾🌊💻 Apply at the link👇 unc.peopleadmin.com/postings/270589

Deadline to apply for our UNC Study Abroad Summer 2024 Environmental Studies trip to Ecuador is January 31st! Quito, Amazon Rainforest, Galapagos…you don’t want to miss this! Get those applications submitted! UNC Institute for the Environment CARDNL susan cohen @pegasaurus_rexx

HUGE congratulations to our MS student Andrew Zachman, who successfully defended his Master’s Thesis in Ecology looking at fire-mediated forest structure and seed dispersal of grasses. You’re on fire, Andrew! 🔥

It's a field day for the drone lab! Working with partners in Currituck Sound characterizing the marsh and flying drones! UNC Institute for the Environment NC Collaboratory Audubon North Carolina CARDNL

Lab members @pegasaurus_rexx and Andrew Zachman had a successful trip to the 2024 ASB meeting! Knowledge was shared and sturgeons were befriended at the Tennessee Aquarium 🐢 evening social 🤿🔥🌾

Don’t miss our free seminar TODAY 11:30-12:30 EDT- Troy Walton will be lecturing on how to process and analyze drone imagery using pix4d Mapper!

It’s a bird! It’s a plane! It’s a …. drone! The Carolina Drone Lab at UNC serves as a collaborative space and knowledge hub that facilitates the innovative use of drones and sensors to solve environmental and societal challenges. #GiveUNC: go.unc.edu/XGiveUNC24

Our research assistant Jonas Hattman represented CARDNL at the NCTWS meeting last week, teaching folks about the conservation uses of drones! Go Jonas! 🦅🐢🐭

CARDNL conducting prescribed fire research at Konza Prairie Biological Station in Kansas this week. Assisting @EPAresearch to study emission factors from large watershed burns and sampling with a second drone several km downwind of the fire for plume modeling.UNC Institute for the Environment

ConGRADulations to our newly graduated drone lab research assistants, Rachael and Jonas! They are on to do great things, with Rachael sticking around in NC and Jonas shipping off to Oregon! We are so proud of you both!

Marsh madness! Our lab had a fantastic field week in Currituck Sound, NC- drones surveyed from above while field teams took measurements below. This NC Collaboratory funded project explores habitat restoration in this historic hub for fishing and waterfowl hunting.

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Students: apply now for the Fall CARDNL internship working on our Currituck Sound research project! UNC Institute for the Environment susan cohen @pegasaurus_rexx unc.peopleadmin.com/postings/284217

Can't wait to keep up the good work in Currituck Sound! 🎉

We partnered with UNC Institute for the Environment, CARDNL, and @ecsuvikings to assess marsh health at our Pine Island Sanctuary on the Outer Banks. Using drones, we can gather high-resolution imagery that will help us guide restoration work into the future. Learn more: buff.ly/3MhY3g5

Erosion and sea level rise are drowning NC marshes. With funding from NC Collaboratory & Slick Family Foundation, CARDNL, Elizabeth City State University and Audubon North Carolina hope to do something about it. #UNCResearch endeavors.unc.edu/mapping-marsh-…

The UNC Institute for the Environment is participating in the first-ever UNC Research & Discovery Fair! Come see demonstrations from CARDNL and our N.C. field sites. Full details: researchweek.unc.edu/events/researc… #uncresearchweek UNC Office for Undergraduate Research

It's #UNCReserachWeek! Don't miss UNC Institute for the Environment, CARDNL and Data-Driven EnviroLab at the Research and Discovery Fair this Wednesday, October 23. Learn more: researchweek.unc.edu

We're officially moving to BlueSky! Follow us at unc-cardnl.bsky.social for all things UNC Drone Lab. Happy flying✈️