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We had a great time at the first annual Champion Sustainability game – check out the amazing hype video!

Check out these great new papers from Anne Smiley!

Chronic enrichment affects nitrogen removal in tidal freshwater river and estuarine creek sediments. Journal of Environmental Quality

Storm characteristics influence nitrogen removal in an urban estuarine environment, Natural Hazards and Earth System Sciences

They are both open access – please go grab a PDF!

Congratulations Martina on an excellent presentation and successful defense of your thesis!!

Rooted: Mike Piehler

Great day successfully defending you dissertation!  Now off to Delaware NERR to coordinate some research!!  Amazing snacks (land-water margin muffins) and phragtastic decor.

Another great paper on stormwater wet ponds by Piehler Lab alum Adam Gold. He found that  sediment nitrate uptake was higher during the summer, however the nitrate uptake was driven by retention rather than denitrification.  Information from this paper will advance our understanding of the function and management of this common piece of stormwater infrastructure. Congratulations again Adam.  Download the paper here.

Last week I had the opportunity to testify before a congressional sub-committee about several of our projects focused on resilience.  It would have been more fun to be in DC, but it was still a great time!

https://ncseagrant.ncsu.edu/news/2021/03/new-coastal-research-fellow-studies-invasive-wetland-grass/

Defending in a strange time, but there was nothing surprising about the result!  What a graduate career Adam!!