🦈CARNIVORES & 🌊OUR COAST: I cannot wait for you this series, a month-long labor of love. UNC IMS let us aboard longest running shark tagging trip! We're talking 🦈sharks, 🦀horseshoe crabs, & 🌱moving marshes. I promise you'll learn something new! 📺ONLY on Queen City News!

Loved tonight’s special w/ Elisa Raffa? Here’s a little more about our sharks in NC.

Check out my research tonight at 10pm EST!

🍤🦪"The bumper sticker says 'no wetlands, no seafood,'" UNC IMS marine ecologist Dr. Joel Fodrie says these marshes are crucial to the fisheries economy. 🐟Even as they get bigger & move into deeper water, the marshes are critical for the early life stages. #climatematters

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 ☀️

Each lab group has been organizing an event each month to celebrate IMS’ 75th anniversary. We had a blast pumpkin carving and getting some fresh air at the Noble and Paerl lab’s event on Friday!

Last week, I attended the annual SciREN Coast networking event where I shared my research & my “build your own seagrass meadow” craft with K-12 teachers. Looking forward to continued collaboration with educators to bring #science to the classroom! 🐠🌱 #scicomm #seagrass

The front page of tomorrow's The Daily Tar Heel – I shed many tears while typing up these heart-wrenching text messages sent and received by UNC students yesterday. Our campus was on lockdown for more than three hours. Beyond proud of this cover and the team behind it.

We're continuing the #Estuariesweek celebration at Jones Island with Coastal Educator Rachel! She's giving us some insight into some of the animals you can find in #estuaries! #WadeIn

Fintastic friends, fintastic finds, and a fintastic way to swim into #EstuariesWeek! 🐠🦀

Our lab had a #HappyHalloween with our under the sea trunk or treat organized by Madeline Payne 🧡👻 Can’t tell you how many kids sat under my umbrella jellyfish 🪼w/me to chat about candy preferences 😂 #SpookySeason #diycostume #MarineScience

And that’s a wrap on a successful field season surveying fish communities in NC’s #seagrass meadows. This week’s special guests: Lion’s Mane Jelly, a shoal of squid, and dolphins! 🌱🪼🦑🐬🌱 S/o to the #FodSquad for all y’all’s help! #FieldworkFriday #ecology #estuaries

Welcomed rainfall on tap for most of the area tomorrow as a wave passes off the coast. The greatest coverage of rainfall is expected between sunrise and sunset, along and east of US Hwy 17. Mainly dry conditions return Monday and prevail through much of the coming week.

We're excited to announce that SciREN Coast's 11th Annual Networking Fair & Educator Open House will take place on March 27th, 2024!!👩‍🔬📚🪸🎉 Register now using the QR codes or links below! #SciCoast24 Researchers: forms.gle/9NTqfJo7UySZGE… Educators: forms.gle/UupaZpkCgoyMjy…

For field ecologists, winter typically means being stuck in the office making endless graphs. Luckily for me, my office is UNC IMS 🌊🐚 #phdlife #phd #marinescience Pics: Blue heron, purple urchin, and our self-proclaimed maritime forest

This #MarineScienceMonday we caught one of the biggest #stingrays we’ve seen while surveying seagrasses 🌊 This girl (and the other fish) was quickly measured and returned to her habitat 💙

#Fall fieldwork is coming to a close 🍁🍂 Featuring cold day clamming, a mystery mini fish 🐟 (or maybe a fish-like piece of grass lol), and a “living shoreline” collecting oysters 🦪 #coast #marinescience #stem #phdlife #research

We're excited to announce that SciREN Coast's 12th Annual Networking Fair & Educator Open House will take place on February 27th, 2025!👩‍🔬👨🏾‍🏫🪼 Be part of our impact! Register now using these links: Researchers: forms.gle/5wqq7J7vdxQCPu… Educators: forms.gle/scjcxjqXFJXvKh…