oceanography

A student stands next to the edge of the boat and uses a pulley system to raise a metal instrument from the estuary water.

All Hands on Deck

Capping off a semester of hard work, students in a biological oceanography class put their lessons to the test during a two-day, hands-on field trip to the Neuse River Estuary and the UNC Institute of Marine Sciences in Morehead City.

Photo of a marine iguana on the Galapagos Islands.

Photo by Mary Lide Parker

On the Front Lines

To better understand the severity of this year’s El Niño, UNC oceanographers traveled to one of the hardest hit places — the Galápagos Islands