Drones Aid Saltmarsh Restoration
Recent Duke grad Alexandra DiGiacomo (BS 鈥20) is using drones to better understand how rising seas, warming waters and rapid development are killing protective saltmarshes at our coast, and what can be done to reverse the losses.
Reclaiming Duke鈥檚 SWAMP
Sixteen years after the restoration of Upper Sandy Creek began, hundreds of species, some rare, now call the once-heavily eroded and degraded stream home, and nitrogen pollution flowing off Duke鈥檚 campus into downstream waters has been slashed by 75%.
A Sustainable Oyster Farm
The Duke Aquafarm is Duke鈥檚 other 鈥渃ampus farm,鈥 where students grow oysters instead of produce and learn how the tasty bivalves could help take a bite out of coastal pollution.
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