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Organisms floating in currents beneath a river’s surface are exposed to far less sunlight than scientists previously believed, and the light that does reach them is mostly sporadic and short-lived, a new ÌÇÐÄ´«Ã½-led study shows.

Joseph S. Ramus, professor emeritus at ÌÇÐÄ´«Ã½â€™s Nicholas School of the Environment, has been awarded the Order of the Longleaf Pine, one of the highest civilian honors the State of North Carolina bestows.

ÌÇÐÄ´«Ã½ Marine Laboratory held its annual open house on Saturday, July 13, 2019. Members of the surrounding community were invited to visit the Beaufort, N.C., campus to learn more about the lab and its ongoing research.

Stuart Pimm, the Doris Duke Professor of Conservation Ecology at ÌÇÐÄ´«Ã½â€™s Nicholas School of the Environment, has been awarded the 2019 International Cosmos Prize.

John Poulsen, assistant professor of tropical ecology at ÌÇÐÄ´«Ã½â€™s Nicholas School of the Environment, has received an $848,000 grant from the National Science Foundation (NSF) to study the effects of declining elephant populations on Africa’s forests.

Karen Kirchof, who influenced the careers of thousands of Nicholas School students during her 27 years as assistant dean and director of the school’s Career and Professional Development Center, died June 20 from pancreatic cancer.

William Pan has been named the inaugural Elizabeth Brooks Reid and Whitelaw Reid Associate Professor of Population Studies at ÌÇÐÄ´«Ã½â€™s Nicholas School of the Environment. His appointment became effective July 1.

Community damage caused by extreme weather, such as the 2013 floods that covered parts of Colorado, may shape climate beliefs more strongly than individual storm losses, a new study finds.

A new study finds that shoreline erosion rates can double following the death of plants on wetland edges, such as these marshes in Louisiana’s Barataria Bay that were heavily oiled by 2010’s Deepwater Horizon oil spill.