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NEW PAPER: The FLITES team Paul Wojtal, Ralph Mead & Chad Lane in @UNCWilmington Earth & Ocean Sciences present a procedure for correcting data generated during the analysis of PFAs by Orbitrap-IRMS. Incorporated into ThermoFisher Scientific processes. doi.org/10.1021/jasms.6c0022…
🎉CELEBRATE AQUACULTURE!
@UNCWilmington's Center for Marine Science welcomes Chuck Weirich as our new Aquaculture Research & Relations Director.
Weirich brings decades of experience in aquaculture science & industry to UNCW, giving him a broad perspective.
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ALT Chuck Weirich in a blue shirt on a skiff with a fisherman off Topsail Island
CONGRATS: Lori Schweikert & Jacob Warner on being selected for NSF CAREER Awards, NSF's highest honor for early-career faculty researchers. Two NSF CAREER Awards in the same year is a remarkable achievement for UNCW & reflects recognition of our research. bit.ly/4cC9NaF
The long wait is over, @UNCWilmington's new 78' R/V Osprey is home! We are so excited to welcome her to the nest!
uncw.edu/news/2026/08/uncw-w…
Kristy Syhapanha, a postdoc in @UNCWilmington's Chemistry & Biochem, has been recognized with the @AmerChemSociety's 2026 Graduate Student & Postdoc Scholar Recognition Program Award for Leadership in Mentoring.
The award honors individuals who go above & beyond! Congrats!
ALT Portrait of Kristy Syhapanha in taupe blouse on blue background
Another WORLD'S first!
@UNCWilmington continues to be at the forefront of PFAS Research with the Orbitrap in the FLITES Facility!
NEW paper on how they generated the world's FIRST isotope data for PFAS purified from environmental samples! #uncwchemistry
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Congrats to @UNCWilmington's Madison Lytle & Jessie Jarvis on the new paper: "Evaluating UAV based monitoring of seagrass meadows: Insights into spatial configuration and temporal change"
Illustration: MD Smith
@UNCW_BaMB
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Int'l partnership places UNCW among a group of 5 teams leading next-gen satellite precipitation research! Yalei You is guiding research in our partnership w/Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA), “Our students aren't just studying science – they are contributing to it.”
🎉 Britt Zepernick & team receive Daylight Award for Research!
Work shows how algae adapt to changing underwater light, offering insight into ecosystem resilience, winter productivity & the impacts of climate change on biodiversity & planetary health.
youtube.com/watch?v=iFk85HPf…
ALT Image of interview with Brittany Zepernick. https://thedaylightaward.com/
🎉 SHOUT OUT!!! Five @UNCWilmington Faculty Named 2026 Research Achievement Award Recipients!!! Notably Two Affiliated with CMS: Remington X. Poulin, Chemistry & Biochemistry Matthew McLean, Biology & Marine Biology
Full details 👉 lnkd.in/e2MA9wpp
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She is a beauty! Do you know someone who knows someone ... who is interested in naming her or one of her labs? Chart the future of marine science at UNCW!
Contact Jay Styron to make a gift today! [email protected]
Give Now at:
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Advancing research on the Trematode parasite on the bay scallop. Pub from the Julia Buck/Ami Wilbur labs, Biol & Marine Bio, w/both first authors @UNCWilmington MS alumni & 3rd author a BS alumnus.
The novel parasite was discovered by these same labs! dx.doi.org/10.1002/ece3.7338…
CONGRATS to César Acevedo-Ramirez, UNCW post-doc 2022-24, and Dr. Ata Suanda @UNCWilmington Physics on a new paper. The study applies and evaluates a new way of representing how the rocky seafloor slows down ocean waves near the coast.
mdpi.com/2077-1312/14/7/609
UNCW_CMS retweeted
In just 5 days, set up a massive experiment with >200 corals to test probiotics against SCTLD! W/ precise control over light, temp, & purified seawater, we’re ready to create solutions! Amazing teamwork between UNCW, Blue Indigo Foundation, Ecomares, UM Lowell, Croalina, & PIMS!
Coming to our dock soon!!! We are so excited to share our big, no, our REALLY BIG new vessel! @UNCWilmington is investing in ocean and marine science research! Port and starboard! uncw.edu/news/2024/09/uncw-a…
🎉CONGRATS @uncw's doctoral student Sarah Barr (& team), on the recent paper: a result of research on how the herbal supplement 'ashwagandha' breaks down in digestion. Understanding how herbal compounds change in the digestive system helps predict how they work in the body.
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It's big, really ... it's REALLY BIG!!! Executive Director Ken Halanych & Capt'n Jay Styron got to see our new vessel in production-All American Marine, Bellingham, WA. Expecting delivery in the summer!
Support for systems & naming available; Melissa Sinclair, 910-962-3602.
ALT Image of Ken and Jay standing starboard on the new vessel.
NEW PAPER by scientists at @UNCWilmington
focuses on how Per- & polyfluoroalkyl substances (PFAS) affect immune cells. Even low, non-toxic levels of PFAS can directly disrupt normal immune function - changing how immune cells respond & communicate. doi.org/10.1016/j.etap.2026.…
