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a group of female hikers hike in the Sierra Nevadas

Riverine Re[Sr]ch

As a first-year student, Elena Watts took a research-based field trip that would change her...

Chasing Cephalopod Dreams

Jared Richards recalls childhood memories walking through the halls of the Smithsonian’s National Museum of...
Meredith Emery

Emotional Environment

When Meredith Emery photographed geography researchers conducting fieldwork, she couldn’t believe what she saw —...
Esther Kwon

Esther Kwon

Rising senior Esther Kwon is an undergraduate researcher and recent SURF recipient within the UNC...
Savannah Swinea

Savannah Swinea

Rising senior Savannah Swinea is an undergraduate researcher within the UNC College of Arts &...
Rachel Noble collects water samples along the beach in Morehead City

Rachel Noble

Rachel Noble is the Mary and Watts Hill Jr. Distinguished Professor at the UNC Institute...
Diamond Holloman

Diamond Holloman

Diamond Holloman is a PhD student in the Curriculum for the Environment and Ecology within...
three women on a boat

Marsh Madness

North Carolina's marshes continue to fragment every day. Shelby Ziegler attempts to rebuild them by gathering data...

The Flora Files

In the last 50 years, botanists have discovered more than 500 new species of plants...