North Carolina Sea Grant and the Water Resources Research Institute Name Joint Fellows

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE

Contact:
Katie Mosher, North Carolina Sea Grant, 919-515-9069, katie_mosher@ncsu.edu
Nicole Wilkinson, Water Resources Research Institute, 919-513-1216, nicole_wilkinson@ncsu.edu

[Five] graduate students are starting new research projects that explore current water resources and coastal issues in North Carolina. These fellowships are funded by North Carolina Sea Grant and the Water Resources Research Institute of the University of North Carolina system.

The research call was designed to reach new and diverse audiences, and applicants were strongly encouraged to collaborate with Historically Black Colleges and Universities and Minority Serving Institutions.

“We recognized that there are groups of faculty and students, as well as communities in our state, who have been underserved and underrepresented in terms of water-related research,” notes Nicole Wilkinson, WRRI coordinator for research and outreach. “We wanted to target our funding in such a way that it created opportunities to address some of those gaps.”

The competitive funding opportunity was open to graduate students across the state. The 2017 fellows are from [ East Carolina University, North Carolina State University and the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and UNC-Greensboro]. They are:

Lise received her MS in Water Science Engineering from Polytech Montpellier, in Montpellier, France. She has worked as an intern at several consulting firms specialized in water resource management and hydraulic modeling. Lise transferred to NCSU from Oklahoma State University where she worked on additives in bioretention systems and phosphorous removal by fly-ash.

Lise’s research focuses on quantifying spatial variability in the vulnerability of estuarine systems to global and local change.

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