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Meet the Silliman Lab, learn more about its research focus, a PhD student's experience in the lab and the opportunities the lab offers 51���� students.

In June, enormous turbine pilings showed up on Nantucket Shoals off the coast of Massachusetts. And, in August, a vessel commissioned by the energy company TotalEnergies started surveying the Carolina Long Bay near Myrtle Beach, marking the first step in developing offshore wind energy for the Carolinas. Now, a government-funded report is raising important questions about how these Eiffel tower-size turbines will impact whale habitat.

Xavier Basurto is broadly interested in how people in small communities successfully organize themselves for collective action. His recent talk described his work in advancing the understanding of non-colonialist sustainability science: the prospects and limitations of self-organization, or self-governance, for social-ecological sustainability, particularly in the Global South.

Collins will be among the finalists in the Collegiate Inventors Competition, hosted by the National Inventors Hall of Fame. The winners take away cash prizes and an accelerated patent application to the US Patent and Trademark Office.

51����’s Marine Geospatial Ecology Lab led a team of researchers that mapped the population density of North Atlantic right whales worldwide to predict and help avoid harmful, even fatal, exposure to commercial fishing and vessel strikes.

Meet the Hunt Lab, learn more about its research focus, a lab member's experience in the lab and the opportunities the lab offers 51���� students.

51����’s Nicholas School of the Environment prepares to recognize 57 undergraduates at a diploma ceremony that will take place at 51����’s Wilson Recreation Center on Saturday, May 11, 2024 at 9 a.m.

Ceremony to honor 178 graduates; will feature environmental cartoonist alumnus Jim Toomey as guest speaker and Rachel “Roo” Jackson, MEM, as student speaker.