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Ants Aren’t Adapting to Warmer Temperatures

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Farmworker in a field

Sep 28, 2023

Agriculture Workers Digital Equity Initiative Receives NIH Funding

Catherine and collaborators aim to increase agricultural workers’ access to digital health services and emergency communication by improving access to affordable, reliable high-speed internet. 
A group of mussels in water

Sep 25, 2023

Sea Salt is Lethal to Early Life Stages of Three Freshwater Mussel Species

This new study details how salt water intrusion is a threat to the future of freshwater mussels. 
Researchers walking upstream in a river in Puerto Rico.

Aug 23, 2023

Mature Female American Eels Located In Caribbean

American eel lifecycles are famously mysterious, but a new study locates and important source of large female eels. 
A podcast title card with pictures of TeCora Galloway and Ambar Torres Molinari

Aug 3, 2023

American Eel 101 with Ambar Torres Molinari

Recent AEC graduate, Ambar Torres Molinari, talks about the mysterious and slimy American eel in this interview with science communication intern, TeCora Galloway. 
Cape Lookout National Seashore Chief of Interpretation and Education Nate Toering demonstrates how to use Chronolog, an online tool that houses crowd-sourced time-lapses of the environment, to document the ghost forest in the background. Photo: Jennifer Allen

Jul 18, 2023

Ghost Forest Education Focal Point of Public Science Project

An interdisciplinary team is aiming to make ghost forests an opportunity for communities to engage with change. 
PhD student Madi Polera picking up a mussel from a riverbed.

Jun 28, 2023

Video: Studying Madi’s Mussels

Dive into the Neuse River with Madi Polera and her team as they work to better measure the health of our imperiled and important freshwater mussels. 
Farmworkers sitting in a room with an educator leading a training via a flipchart.

Jun 26, 2023

Something Old with Something New: Physically and Digitally Meeting Farmworker Health Needs

Farmworkers touch nearly everything on your plate, yet often struggle to access health care and information. Catherine, Emery, and colleagues have created digital literacy tools to help this accessibility issue, using a tried-and-true methods of communication. 
Crystal skippers feeding on morning glories at Fort Macon State Park, NC.

Mar 22, 2023

Elsa Awarded New Grant To Conserve Rare Butterflies

Congratulations to Elsa and her team for being awarded funding to conserve the Crystal skipper butterfly. 
A beekeeper looks for a queen bee in a hive.

Mar 6, 2023

High Genetic Diversity of Commercial Honey Bees Is Also Uniformly Distributed

The genetic diversity of hundreds of commercial honey bees is high, but their genetics are largely the same highly diverse set, with no regional subpopulations. This is good news/bad news for managed colonies. 

Feb 17, 2023

Ants Aren’t Adapting to Warmer Temperatures

Elsa's research on the effects of sub-lethal temperatures on ants is featured in Eos.