The Road Less Traveled: An Academic Journey from Undergrad to Professor

July 10, 2023 | Lauren Pharr

Fidan has developed a framework to model the daily flood extent in the North Carolina Coastal Plain area after Hurricane Matthew....

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Sustaining Iconic Fish

April 18, 2023 | Lauren Pharr

“I wanted to be a marine biologist, basically from the moment I watched a National Geographic video featuring Dr. Eugenie Clark. She was my hero growing up,” says Matt Damiano, an alumnus from North Carolina State University’s Department of Applied Ecology....

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Community-Engaged Interns Serve Across the State

February 10, 2023 | Carrie Clower

Each summer, North Carolina Sea Grant offers undergraduate students opportunities to join experts across the state to explore issues affecting local communities....

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NC State Scientists Work to Raise Awareness for a More Inclusive Outdoors

February 6, 2023 | Lauren Pharr

Field Inclusive, a nonprofit co-founded by Lauren D. Pharr and Murry Burgess, two Black Ph.D. students at North Carolina State University (NCSU), strives to offer tangible and actionable improvements in issues related to justice, equity, diversity, and inclusion (JEDI) when it comes to individuals who are targeted based on their race/ethnicity, sexual orientation, disability, gender identity and/or religion while working in or enjoying the outdoors....

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Improving Hurricane Predictions by Observing the Ocean with Cheyenne Stienbarger

July 28, 2022 | Carrie Clower

During this past World Ocean Month, we sat down with Global Ocean Monitoring and Observing Program Manager Cheyenne Stienbarger to learn more about how ocean observing research can help improve predictions of extreme events....

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