Tomorrow 1:30PM, Mitchell Hall 005: Jason Smerdon (Columbia Climate School) brings the Blanton Lecture Series to EMES — "Models, Matricies, and Megadroughts: A Paleoclimate Perspective for a Hotter Planet." #UNCEMES

EMES Professor Scott Gifford is featured at the 2026 CAS Seed Funding Showcase! Stop by to celebrate research across the College. Oct 20, 11am-1pm, Sonja Haynes Stone Center. Students can earn CLE credit. #UNCEMES #UNCResearchWeek

Got questions about spring classes? Chat with EMES undergrad Ambassadors Anna, Catie & Evan — not advisors, just real student experiences. Tue 10/20, 11am-2pm, Murray Hall 3rd Fl. Evan's also on Zoom 12:30-2pm for IMS Field Site Qs. #UNCEMES

🏔️🌊 Congrats to PhD candidate Hannah Henry (EMES), named a 2026 Mountains to Sea Graduate Research Fellow! 🎉 ncseagrant.ncsu.edu/new-moun… #UNCEMES

🌊 Today @ 1PM: Chris Mack (JMT Inc) joins our Field Site Seminar Series — "Designing Coastal Resilience: Lessons from Charleston's Seawall and SC Living Shorelines." IMS Seminar Room. #UNCEMES

🌎 Sept 30 @ 1:30PM: Dr. Megan Plenge (EMES) joins our Colloquium Series — "Building Capacity in Geoscience Education: Faculty Development, Curricular Design, and Student Identity." Mitchell Hall 005. #UNCEMES

🌊 Nearly half of NC's major flood events over 25 years hit homes OUTSIDE FEMA flood zones. Dr. Antonia Sebastian's Flood Hydrology & Hazards Lab breaks it down on PBS's Sci NC. 🎥 pbs.org/video/flooding-is-ge… #UNCEMES

🏆 Congrats to Dr. Toni Sebastian, winner of the 2026 AGU Natural Hazards Early Career Award! Her research examines how flood risks are evolving with climate & land use change in NC and TX. Ceremony: AGU Annual Meeting, San Francisco, Dec 7-11. #UNCEMES #AGU2026

🌊 EMES at UNC-Chapel Hill is hiring two Assistant Professors! 📍 Coastal Ecology — IMS, Morehead City: unc.peopleadmin.com/postings… 📍 Biological Oceanography — Chapel Hill campus: unc.peopleadmin.com/postings… Deadline: Nov 16, 2026. Please share with your network! #AcademicJobs

🔬 Special session alert: Friday 9/18 @ 9AM (not our usual Thursday slot!). Isabel Baker (UNC-CH) talks anthropogenic redox reorganization & methane escape from coastal sediments. IMS Seminar Room. DM us for the Zoom link. #UNCEMES

🌊 Training the next generation of physical oceanographers! EMES Prof. Ken Zhao co-organized a new NSF workshop with @georgiatecheas & @aoscumd, bringing 13 PhD students—including 3 from NC—for hands-on training from land to the Gulf Stream aboard the R/V Savannah! 🔬🚢

First Author Announcement! 🎉 We are thrilled to congratulate Olivia Key, Rodriguez Lab alumna, on the publication of her honors thesis in Estuarine, Coastal and Shelf Science. Congratulations to Olivia on this achievement! 🔗 Read her thesis here: authors.elsevier.com/c/1mMbG…

Meet Emily Speciale, a PhD student in the Marchetti Lab studying marine phytoplankton ecology and ocean productivity. Emily was recently selected as a 2025–26 UNC Kenan Galapagos Fellow, supporting her research in one of the world’s most important natural laboratories!

🌎 EMES at GSA Connects 2025! We’re so proud of the students and faculty who represented UNC’s Department of Earth, Marine and Environmental Sciences (EMES) at this year’s Geological Society of America Annual Meeting in San Antonio, Texas!

Collapsing homes on the NC coast highlight the risks of long-term erosion. At @UNC_EMES, Dr. Laura Moore studies how erosion and management decisions shape the future of oceanfront communities. 🎥 Watch her insights: foxweather.com/watch/fmc-75e…

🎃 EMES brought students together with a Pumpkin Painting Party…proving that research minds can make pretty great artists too! 🖌️🍂 Here’s to a fall season filled with connection, creativity, and Carolina blue! 💙

Colloquium this Friday! 🗣️ 📅 Friday, October 3 at 3:30 PM 📍 Carolina Hall Room 220 (UNC–Chapel Hill) 🎤 Speaker: Dr. Chao Wang (UNC EMES Department) 🌊 Talk Title: “As the Ocean Marches Inland: How Rising Seas Reshape Coastal Landscapes”

🌪 Tomorrow: Join the EMES Colloquium Seminar Series for the Sankey L. Blanton Lectureship w/ Dr. Gabriel Vecchi (Princeton). 📅 Sept. 24 | 1:30 PM 📍 Mitchell Hall 005 + IMS Library 💻 Zoom: 974 5684 1506 Topic: Linking past & future hurricane activity changes