Research using core samples from trees in coastal savannas to reconstruct rainfall amounts from tropical cyclones of the past 300 years shows that storms are moving more slowly and dumping more and more rain.
Lewis Naisbett-Jones, a doctoral candidate at the University of North Carolina Chapel Hill, is doing research that may help state fisheries officials better understand how vulnerable the species could become to overfishing.
After a decade in the Marine Corps, Jonathan Lucas had achieved most of the things he was hoping to as a young infantry officer.
He had been placed in charge of platoons of 40 people, served as a company commander, led Marines through deployments and moved up the ranks.
Lucas also had a growing family and a desire to return to the world of science that had fascinated him since he was a child. So, at 32 years old, he traded his military fatigues and boots for wetsuits and waders to return to school and earn a master’s degree in marine sciences from Carolina’s College of Arts & Sciences.