UNC Dept of Earth, Marine & Environmental Sciences
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Dept of Earth, Marine & Environmental Sciences (EMES) @UNC. Established July 2021 from Geology & Marine Sciences departments & @UNCims marine lab. On 🟦⛅ too!
Chapel Hill & Morehead City NC
Joined August 2021
🌎 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!
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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:
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Laura Moore, Professor at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill discusses the history of North Carolina's battle with coastal erosion and solutions t
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🎃 EMES brought students together with a Pumpkin Painting Party…proving that research minds can make pretty great artists too! 🖌️🍂 Here’s to a fall season filled with connection, creativity, and Carolina blue! 💙
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Excited to join #GSAConnects2025 with the @UNC_EMES team! EMES is proud to showcase research on subduction, orogens, climate, uplift, and more! Come find us, connect, and be part of the conversation! 🔥🗻 #GeoTwitter #Petrology #Subduction
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Colloquium this Friday! 🗣️ 📅 Friday, October 3 at 3:30 PM 📍 Carolina Hall Room 220 (UNC–Chapel Hill) 🎤 Speaker: Dr. Chao Wang (UNC EMES Department) 🌊 Talk Title: “As the Ocean Marches Inland: How Rising Seas Reshape Coastal Landscapes”
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🌪 Tomorrow: Join the EMES Colloquium Seminar Series for the Sankey L. Blanton Lectureship w/ Dr. Gabriel Vecchi (Princeton). 📅 Sept. 24 | 1:30 PM 📍 Mitchell Hall 005 + IMS Library 💻 Zoom: 974 5684 1506 Topic: Linking past & future hurricane activity changes
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Congratulations to Rick Luettich, #UNC Alumni Distinguished Professor of @UNC_EMES, for receiving the 2025 International Coastal Engineering Award 🎉 The award honors Luettich's "national leadership in coastal storm hazards." https://t.co/FihSmerOV1
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"Building infrastructure and housing that can withstand not only the floods of the past, but also those of the future, is critical to developing resilient communities," said @UNC_EMES expert Antonia Sebastian. Learn about Sebastian's work in Western N.C. https://t.co/lVgdsC1cso
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Great work, EMES presenters and session organizers!
Capping off our busy Saturday were seven posters from graduate students Margarita Lankford, Veronica Slevin, Riley Moran and Lillian Cooper and undergraduate students Keshav Srivenkatesh, Eleanor Hennessey and Lauren McShea #ASLO25
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Emma Dempsey making EMES proud with her action-oriented research on antimicrobial resistance, coastal storms and wastewater infrastructure in the face of climate change.
#ASLO25 weekend recap! On Saturday morning, graduate students Emma Dempsey and Yubeen Jeong gave talks in SS45: North Carolina’s coast at the doorstep of climate change. This session, organized in part by by Drs. Hans Paerl and Rachel Noble, also featured a talk by Dr. Paerl.
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Capping off our busy Saturday were seven posters from graduate students Margarita Lankford, Veronica Slevin, Riley Moran and Lillian Cooper and undergraduate students Keshav Srivenkatesh, Eleanor Hennessey and Lauren McShea #ASLO25
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Later on Saturday, postdoc Dr. Raquel Flynn and graduate student Emily Speciale presented talks on how microscopic marine organisms - eukaryotic phytoplankton and mixotrophs - respond to nutrients like nitrogen and iron #ASLO25
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#ASLO25 weekend recap! On Saturday morning, graduate students Emma Dempsey and Yubeen Jeong gave talks in SS45: North Carolina’s coast at the doorstep of climate change. This session, organized in part by by Drs. Hans Paerl and Rachel Noble, also featured a talk by Dr. Paerl.
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This afternoon, postdoctoral researchers Chad Lloyd and Mingying Chuo will present their research on the effects of pressure on polysaccharide update by bacteria and how light limitation during salinity intrusions impact phytoplankton.
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Please join us tomorrow morning to celebrate Aundre Jackson as he defends his Master's thesis! Aundre's research answers the question, to what extent does V. fischeri use T6SS weapons to invade an already colonized territory? See you at 10:30 am tomorrow in Murray Hall or Zoom!
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It's giving...Earth! Marine Science! Environment! Happy #GiveUNC Day! Your donation supports the incredible work of students and faculty across EMES, from funding research travel to awarding student accomplishments. Share your love for UNC, share your love for Earth💙🌎
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After Hurricane Helene, educators from @UNC_IE partnered with N.C. State Parks to provide hands-on learning for students whose school was displaced by flooding. Help us continue to engage with communities across the state. Give today: https://t.co/ZVt5xwJjJ9.
#GiveUNC
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Congratulations to Dr. Aliyah Griffith! We are so proud of you and can’t wait to see all the amazing things you do! 🧜♀️🪸🐠🥳🍾 @CnidarianNerd @MermaidsinSTEM
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