


ECU Faculty Uses Hurricane Case Studies to Understand Environmental Migration
Residents of North Carolina’s Outer Banks usually observe a mass exodus of visitors from the beach prior to a hurricane. Once the storm has passed, residents immediately clean up and repair their homes and businesses, getting ready for the next set of hopeful tourists...
ECU Scientists Help Filter Through “Too Much Information” in the Mangrove Conservation World
As the situation with COVID-19 is showing us, science and data are most useful when they are made accessible and available to those who need and use them. This is just as true for global conservation efforts in this era of big data. Recently, an international team of...
ECU’s David Lagomasino to Help Assess Everglades Mangrove Recovery Post-Hurricane Irma
ECU Department of Coastal Studies assistant professor David Lagomasino is part of a team of researchers from ECU and Florida International University (FIU) who have been awarded funding from the National Parks Service for a project to assess the resilience and...
NASA Funds ECU Scientist to Study Coastal Seascapes from Space
Coastal seascapes (seagrasses, mangroves, coral reefs, tidal flats) are of high economic and ecological value all over the world and also offer extensive protection from extreme weather events. Coastal seascapes are often labeled “Blue Carbon” environments, meaning...