Marine, Earth & Atmospheric Sciences

Jan 11, 2016

CMAST Renames Summer Fellows Program to Honor Dr. Patricia McClellan-Green

The recently renamed Dr. Patricia McClellan-Green Summer Fellows Program at CMAST honors late professor and mentor.

Jul 17, 2015

Centuries-Old Shipwreck Discovered Off North Carolina Coast

NC State marine scientists have helped discover an old shipwreck more than a mile deep off the North Carolina coast.

Jun 5, 2015

Peter Harries Joins NC State’s Graduate School, MEAS Faculty

Dr. Peter J. Harries has been named senior associate dean of NC State's Graduate School. He also will be a faculty member in the College of Sciences.

Boats on shore of Lake Victoria in Africa

Mar 26, 2015

Preparing East Africa for a Population Surge

Dr. Fred Semazzi leads an international effort to pair climate research with real economic-development planning in the Lake Victoria region.

Oct 29, 2014

Harnessing Crowds to Analyze Clouds

Citizen scientists are helping to categorize 30 years' worth of tropical hurricane and cyclone data.

Jul 11, 2014

Learning how we learn

Dr. Karen McNeal uses high-tech tools to explore how humans understand what they’re taught about earth systems. Her recent research in geocognition and geoscience education has broken new ground determining…

Dec 23, 2013

Here Comes the Rain

There were the late summer floods of 2013 that devastated parts of Colorado. Seventeen inches of rain fell in just one week. There were the record Midwestern rains of 2011…

May 24, 2013

CICS-NC to host executive forum on business and climate

EDITOR’S NOTE: The following is press release from the Cooperative Institute for Climate and Satellites – North Carolina (CICS-NC), a unit of NC State University and PAMS. Through a grant…

Apr 4, 2013

CICS-NC researchers: A warming world will intensify extreme precipitation events

This story originally ran April 3, 2013, as a media release from the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration. According to a newly-published NOAA-led study in Geophysical Research Letters, as the…

Feb 1, 2013

“Stewards of the Future” group begins in Carteret County

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE From NC State’s Center for Marine Sciences and Technology (CMAST) Fish Oil, Omega-3s and Coastal Stewardship – What is the connection? Fish oil and Omega-3s are easy…