UNC Asheville Environmental Science

Well that's a wrap! Today was the usual mix of bittersweet feelings as we wished our graduates well on their next journey. Go Bulldogs!

It is that time of year again! Our mineralogy students are competing for the annual mineral cup! .mincup

You can vote here: https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLScy0XhSjrgn-34wlOFiJN2gC6YjSpnYlNIdKfLt3KrsfFORNw/viewform

Junior Anele Saige and senior Anaya Harry traveled to Vermont with Dr. Rossell to attend the Northeast Natural History Conference. They presented their undergraduate research on green alder, visited a bioremediation site on Lake Champlain, met a conservation dog, and experienced April snow in the North Country!

Today we proudly celebrate our undergraduate research students! They worked hard and displayed some insightful findings from their work. Great job everyone!

You are invited to a lecture by our guest, Jennifer Bauer, from Appalachian Landside Consultants this Thursday! Appalachian Landslide Consultants, PLLC

Environmental Science students Katherine (Kat) Adah, Tess Bryant and Olivia Williams joined faculty member David Gillette and a group from the Biology Department at the Annual Association of Southeastern Biologists' Meeting in Mobile, Alabama this past weekend. All the students did an amazing job on their presentations, and Kat's poster entitled "Effects of Tropical Storm Helene on Eastern Hellbender Populations in the Upper French Broad River Watershed, North Carolina" won the award for Best Herpetology Poster! Great job everyone!

Our ENVS 106 (Earth History) class made its annual pilgrimage to the Gray Fossil site in Tennessee where we got to see fossil mastodons, rhinos, and tapers that lived here 5 million years ago! A red panda and a camel. Snakes, dogs, cats, and dozens of other animals from the Pliocene. Since Professor Schwartzmann joined us, we also got to see some old acorns and other plant material.

Our Plants and People of the Southern Appalachians class has been busy this semester - we've made bark syrups, natural dyes, pesto, and poultices, all with wild plants (and lots of inner bark)!