The 2022 summer hypoxia forecast for the Neuse River estuary calls for dissolved oxygen concentrations slightly below the long-term average and below the “hypoxia threshold.” Oxygen levels below this threshold often are associated with fish kills....
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This shark’s brain never stops growing throughout its entire life, especially the regions responsible for motor control and sense of smell....
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A research team enters swampy terrain to hand-capture snakes and measure the reptiles' sensitivity to dehydration....
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North Carolina Sea Grant welcomes Haley Plass to our advisory board. Plaas is a Ph.D. student in environmental sciences and engineering at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill’s Institute of Marine Sciences in Morehead City. She received the joint Albemarle-Pamlico National Estuary Partnership – North Carolina Sea Grant Fellowship in 2019 and a National Science Foundation Graduate Research Fellowship in 2020. Here, she talks about some of her groundbreaking research....
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North Carolina Sea Grant celebrates Black in Marine Science Week with Lauren D. Pharr’s seminal story from the award-winning Spring 2021 issue of Coastwatch magazine....
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