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sounding club members attach radiosonde to weather balloon

Feb 25, 2026

Improving Atmospheric River Forecasting

Students launch weather balloons to better understand atmospheric rivers.
Students from the 2023 Bonaire study abroad program swim by coral reefs on a scuba diving excursion off the coast of the Caribbean island.

Feb 25, 2026

Supporting Student Success

MEAS students were among the recipients of more than $17,000 in college funding to study in the Bahamas, Bonaire, the Galapagos Islands and Portugal.
Headshot of Astrid Schnetzer, with a zoomed-in image of cyanobacteria in the background

Feb 18, 2026

MEAS Plankton Expert Honored With Two Awards

Professor Astrid Schnetzer, an expert in plankton ecology, was named as an NC State University Faculty Scholar and ASLO Fellow.
A person presents a research poster at the North Carolina Museum of Natural Sciences

Feb 17, 2026

Lessons From Ancient Ocean Oxygen

Professor Kate Davis and a team of international researchers are investigating what past changes in the ocean’s oxygen may indicate about our present.

Feb 12, 2026

Interactions between dense seasonal macroalgal mats and oysters on natural and constructed shellfish reefs

PeerJ
MEAS-affiliated author: Y. Stacy Zhang

Feb 12, 2026

Source identification of sub-10 nm particles through air dispersion modeling

Science of The Total Environment
MEAS-affiliated authors: Stephanie Bachman, Jonah Hazelwood, Nicholas Meskhidze
A garbage truck tossing bags of trash into a landfill

Feb 11, 2026

Leaking Landfills

Graduate student El Moore is investigating to what extent landfill contaminants are present in North Carolina waterways.
NC State Belltower in Winter

Feb 5, 2026

Spring 2026 DELTA Express Grants Recipients Announced

DELTA has awarded NC State faculty 14 Express Grants for spring 2026, including four Instructional Tools grants, six Course Mapping grants and four Course Accessibility grants.

Feb 4, 2026

Eavesdropping on estuaries: soundscape spatial variation explained by habitat metrics at multiple scales

Landscape Ecology
MEAS-affiliated author: DelWayne Bohnenstiehl

Feb 3, 2026

Catastrophic landscape disturbance and its impact on lake ecosystem stability (Lake Crescent, USA)

The Holocene
MEAS-affiliated author: Lonnie Leithold