Department of Environmental Sciences

UNCW labs evaluate the effect of groundbreaking flood mitigation efforts on the ecosystem “The marsh there is not the easiest place to work,” admitted Devon Eulie ’05, ’08M, associate professor in the Department of Environmental Sciences. The marsh she refers to surrounds Battleship North Carolina, across the Cape Fear River from downtown Wilmington.

Delaney McBride, who is pursuing a master’s degree in environmental sciences, was one of two UNCW students named to one of the nation’s most prestigious marine science fellowships. The Knauss Fellowship through the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration’s National Sea Grant College Program offers students direct experience working on current issues in ocean, coastal and Great Lakes management and research.

Within the depths of the lower Cape Fear and Brunswick rivers lie remnants of the region's history of rice cultivation and the enslaved West Africans and their descendants, the Gullah Geechee, who worked the fields. A team of researchers is attempting to document that history.