From Chapel Hill to Denver! EMES brought research, posters, and good company to GSA Connects 2026. Congrats to everyone who presented, shared posters, or chaired a session. #UNCEMES #GSAConnects2026
Today @ 1PM: Jane Smith (University of Florida) joins our Seminar Series — "The Audacity of Coastal Engineering and Optimism for the Future." IMS Seminar Room. #UNCEMES
Thanks to Greg Dusek (Dusek Coastal Inc.) for today's Field Site Seminar on rip currents, webcams, and tools for a safer, more resilient coast! #UNCEMES
Thanks to everyone who joined today's info session on undergrad research through Study Abroad & UNC Field Sites! Missed it? Explore your options at studyabroad.unc.edu #UNCEMES
Tomorrow 1:30PM, Mitchell Hall 005: Jason Smerdon (Columbia Climate School) brings the Blanton Lecture Series to EMES — "Models, Matricies, and Megadroughts: A Paleoclimate Perspective for a Hotter Planet." #UNCEMES
EMES Professor Scott Gifford is featured at the 2026 CAS Seed Funding Showcase! Stop by to celebrate research across the College. Oct 20, 11am-1pm, Sonja Haynes Stone Center. Students can earn CLE credit. #UNCEMES #UNCResearchWeek
Got questions about spring classes? Chat with EMES undergrad Ambassadors Anna, Catie & Evan — not advisors, just real student experiences. Tue 10/20, 11am-2pm, Murray Hall 3rd Fl. Evan's also on Zoom 12:30-2pm for IMS Field Site Qs. #UNCEMES
🏔️🌊 Congrats to PhD candidate Hannah Henry (EMES), named a 2026 Mountains to Sea Graduate Research Fellow! 🎉 ncseagrant.ncsu.edu/new-moun… #UNCEMES
🌊 Today @ 1PM: Chris Mack (JMT Inc) joins our Field Site Seminar Series — "Designing Coastal Resilience: Lessons from Charleston's Seawall and SC Living Shorelines." IMS Seminar Room. #UNCEMES
🌎 Sept 30 @ 1:30PM: Dr. Megan Plenge (EMES) joins our Colloquium Series — "Building Capacity in Geoscience Education: Faculty Development, Curricular Design, and Student Identity." Mitchell Hall 005. #UNCEMES
🌊 Nearly half of NC's major flood events over 25 years hit homes OUTSIDE FEMA flood zones. Dr. Antonia Sebastian's Flood Hydrology & Hazards Lab breaks it down on PBS's Sci NC. 🎥 pbs.org/video/flooding-is-ge… #UNCEMES
🌊 EMES at UNC-Chapel Hill is hiring two Assistant Professors!
📍 Coastal Ecology — IMS, Morehead City: unc.peopleadmin.com/postings…
📍 Biological Oceanography — Chapel Hill campus: unc.peopleadmin.com/postings…
Deadline: Nov 16, 2026. Please share with your network! #AcademicJobs
🔬 Special session alert: Friday 9/18 @ 9AM (not our usual Thursday slot!). Isabel Baker (UNC-CH) talks anthropogenic redox reorganization & methane escape from coastal sediments. IMS Seminar Room. DM us for the Zoom link. #UNCEMES
🌊 Training the next generation of physical oceanographers!
EMES Prof. Ken Zhao co-organized a new NSF workshop with @georgiatecheas & @aoscumd, bringing 13 PhD students—including 3 from NC—for hands-on training from land to the Gulf Stream aboard the R/V Savannah! 🔬🚢
First Author Announcement! 🎉
We are thrilled to congratulate Olivia Key, Rodriguez Lab alumna, on the publication of her honors thesis in Estuarine, Coastal and Shelf Science.
Congratulations to Olivia on this achievement!
🔗 Read her thesis here:
authors.elsevier.com/c/1mMbG…
Meet Emily Speciale, a PhD student in the Marchetti Lab studying marine phytoplankton ecology and ocean productivity.
Emily was recently selected as a 2025–26 UNC Kenan Galapagos Fellow, supporting her research in one of the world’s most important natural laboratories!
🌎 EMES at GSA Connects 2025!
We’re so proud of the students and faculty who represented UNC’s Department of Earth, Marine and Environmental Sciences (EMES) at this year’s Geological Society of America Annual Meeting in San Antonio, Texas!
Collapsing homes on the NC coast highlight the risks of long-term erosion.
At @UNC_EMES, Dr. Laura Moore studies how erosion and management decisions shape the future of oceanfront communities.
🎥 Watch her insights: foxweather.com/watch/fmc-75e…
