How Stable Is the Oystercatcher Population?

January 10, 2019 | Dave Shaw

For a monogamous bird like the oystercatcher, the number of available male-female pairs is critical to the stability of its population....

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Parasites: Partners in Coastal Restoration

January 3, 2019 | Dave Shaw

Parasites have an image problem. They're actually quite helpful....

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Hurricane Flooding Affects Lumbee River Basin

December 6, 2018 | Dave Shaw

Because flooding from Hurricane Matthew was so much larger than anything the Lumbee River had experienced in the observational record, the flood had unknown implications for the river’s nitrogen cycle. ...

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Young Minds Enjoy New Green Infrastructure

December 3, 2018 | Danielle Costantini

The benefits to teachers’ and students’ well-being and development, in addition to the reduced pollutant and flooding impacts on the ecosystem and downstream communities, can outweigh modest costs to maintain green infrastructure....

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Meet the Environmental Educator of the Year

November 12, 2018 | Marisa Incremona

NCSU's Jenna Hartley has received the Governor’s Conservation Achievement Award for Environmental Educator of the Year. ...

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