University News Archives ~ Ecology Prime

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Turtle-y Awesome!

Callie Boatright - January 30, 2020

The majority of my internship at the North Carolina Coastal Reserve at Masonboro involved walking and looking for sea turtle nests on the island. I would walk once or twice a week in the hopes of finding new sea turtle nests and nests that had hatched.

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Not your everyday walk on the beach

Callie Boatright - November 19, 2019

As a student at the University of North Carolina Wilmington, I was able to network through one of my professors to receive an internship at the North Carolina Coastal Reserve at Masonboro Island. I was particularly interested in the internship because it would allow me to combine both of my majors.

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Shangri-Lost – My Internship in Nepal

Sean Froeb - November 15, 2019

While the Himalayas are truly a spectacle to behold, the greatest challenges in Nepal are not the summits that are there to climb but the adversity that the Nepali people face everyday.

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Ernst Haeckel

Jane Engelsiepen - December 17, 2019

Ernst Haeckel (1834-1919) was a visionary German biologist, zoologist, naturalist, philosopher, physician, professor, author and natural history illustrator, and one of the most influential biologists of the 19th century.

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Ansel Adams

Jane Engelsiepen - November 11, 2019

Ansel Adam’s clear environmentalist’s voice in concert with his breathtaking photography helped to arouse a budding environmental consciousness in the U.S.

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Rachel Carson: giving nature a voice

Linda Engelsiepen - November 9, 2019

Rachel Carson’s rare ability to combine scientific fact with poetic language reached the hearts and minds of a lay audience and gave birth to the movement of environmental consciousness.

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Race to Save Madagascar’s Unique Ecology

Sunny Lewis - January 10, 2020

Left unchecked, the combined effects of deforestation and human-induced climate change could eliminate Madagascar's entire eastern rainforest habitat by 2070.

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Science in Action: Arctic Residents Embrace Renewables

Sunny Lewis - November 18, 2019

Thayer School of Engineering at Dartmouth College has accepted an invitation to partner with Qaanaaq, an Arctic hunting and fishing community in northwestern Greenland, as the residents transition to renewable energy and an affordable, sustainable future.

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Fixation on Nitrogen

Sunny Lewis - November 12, 2019

Scientists at three North American universities have discovered one of nature’s “backup methods” for converting nitrogen into plant nutrients. Research published today in the journal “Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences,” shows that the process may be more resilient than previously known.

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dendrophile

Jane Engelsiepen - February 5, 2020

dendrophile: one who loves trees

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cosmogony

Jane Engelsiepen - November 22, 2019

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anthropogenic

Jane Engelsiepen - November 21, 2019