applied ecology
How To Promote Shade Coffee Farming In Puerto Rico
![A picture of a spider inside a home](https://cals.ncsu.edu/wp-content/uploads/2020/04/a-boreal-combfoot-spider.jpg)
10,000 Photos of the Wild Life in Homes (and Counting)
![A young woman wearing waters stands in a pond holding a net.](https://cals.ncsu.edu/wp-content/uploads/2020/03/April_Sharp.jpg)
Knee-Deep in Dragonfly, Water Quality Research
![Young woman next to a small tent collecting data for research](https://cals.ncsu.edu/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/tent.jpg)
Tiny Tents on Campus are Bee Research at Work
![Man looking through a microscope in a lab](https://cals.ncsu.edu/wp-content/uploads/2020/01/Pinilla_3-e1572623055479-1500x844-1.jpg)
Target: Healthy, Strong Bee Populations
![A female student looks through a microscope in a lab](https://cals.ncsu.edu/wp-content/uploads/2020/01/Salazar.jpg)
Researching Climate Change Effects in Costa Rica
![Two people on a boat fishing](https://cals.ncsu.edu/wp-content/uploads/2020/01/electrofishing-2020-HEADER.jpg)
How Do You Count Fish in a Creek?
![Man looking through a tiny magnifying glass.](https://cals.ncsu.edu/wp-content/uploads/2019/12/Ant-Enigma.jpg)
Citizen Scientists Help Solve Ant Enigma
![CALS researchers have found that the North African outdoors are most similar to U.S. indoors. Here, a giraffe eats a tree outdoors.](https://cals.ncsu.edu/wp-content/uploads/2019/03/mkjusthomeclimate1500-950x535.jpg)
U.S. Indoor Climate Most Similar to Northeast African Outdoors
![Applied Ecology PhD Student Bonnie Myers](https://cals.ncsu.edu/wp-content/uploads/2019/02/BonnieMyersHighlightPhoto-copy.jpg)