Notes from the FieldStudent ResearchInstitute for the Environment
Institute for the Environment Student Research Papers
Every fall, students in UNC-Chapel Hill’s Institute for the Environment program at Highlands Biological Station turn a semester of fieldwork into research papers. Here is the shelf.
Each fall, students enrolled in UNC-Chapel Hill’s Institute for the Environment (IE) program at Highlands Biological Station undertake both an individual research project and a collaborative capstone project. These efforts culminate in final research papers, which are compiled annually into IE research reports available at the links below. Please note that before 2007, the IE program was known as the Carolina Environmental Program. The program did not take place in 2005, 2019, or 2020.
The reports
Fall 2021 · Remote Sensing & Landscape Analysis
A Story Map on the Station’s hemlocks
During Fall 2021, IE students took Remote Sensing and Landscape Analysis. As part of their course work they created a Story Map on the Station’s hemlock trees.
Read the Story Map →The Air We Breathe, the Water We Share
Microplastics research that IE students have carried from rivers into earthworms, shrews, bats — and the rain itself.
Highlands Field Site (IE)Notes from the Field
Before 2007, the IE program was known as the Carolina Environmental Program. Notes from the Field is published by Highlands Biological Station, a center of Western Carolina University.