The Green Thumb’s Guide to Taxonomy
June 25, 2024
Alan Weakley explains how botanists identify new plant species, their names, and the stories behind them.
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Searching for Sheepshead
September 16, 2021
Commercial and recreational fishing are important contributors to the North Carolina economy, but there are still lots of unknowns about many fish species. UNC–Chapel Hill PhD student Lewis Naisbett-Jones is trying to unravel some of that mystery by tracking the migration of one popular species in the fishing community: sheepshead.
Avery Paxton
August 3, 2016
Avery Paxton is a marine ecologist, conservation biologist, and doctoral candidate at the UNC Institute of Marine Sciences. Her research uses a combination of field, laboratory, and analytical methods to address fundamental, mechanistic questions in marine ecology, such as how species use their habitat and how communities are structured.