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Clara Winguth’s Environmental Science Experience
Clara Winguth, a third-year environmental science major, shares her educational experience from her time in the College of Science. She will be taking over our Instagram on Tuesday, March 22.
March 18, 2022
How do you turn a community park into an arboretum? Ask these Northeastern students.
Indira Holdsworth, an ecology and evolutionary biology major, co-ops alongside fellow students to turn Mission Hill's Kevin W. Fitzgerald park into an arboretum.
March 14, 2022
What’s in our water? Amy Mueller is finding new tools to answer that question.
Amy Mueller, Assistant Professor in Marine and Environmental Sciences and Civil and Environmental Engineering, has been awarded a $50,000 seed grant to investigate a new, ultra-low-cost method of monitoring urban water systems
March 03, 2022
Building an eco-friendly snack company from the ground up
Rachel Domb, '24, is the founder of Rooted Living, a plant-based snack company with compostable packaging. She walks us through how she was able to build this eco-friendly company and run it out of her apartment.
March 03, 2022
Instagram takeover: A day in the Three Seas Program with Loren Ayres
Loren Ayres will be taking over our Instagram account on Wednesday, March 2, to share her experience in the College of Science Three Seas Program. Follow along for an inside look at her time in Hawaii!
March 01, 2022
Announcing the Retirement of Professor Bill Detrich
Dr. H. William Detrich III, Professor in Marine and Environmental Sciences, has retired after a distinguished 34-year career at Northeastern.
February 22, 2022
Following the trail of blue carbon in a Georgia salt marsh
Examining the rate of dissolved organic carbon outwelling in a salt marsh – the amount and speed carbon is moving out of the system – is important for understanding the extent and impact this outwelling has on broader coastal carbon cycles. A recent paper by Christina Codden and Aron Stubbins of Northeastern’s Stubbins Lab tackles this question, looking at this carbon outwelling patterns at Groves Creek in Georgia.
February 17, 2022
Co-op Close-up: Giving Antarctic Research Samples New Life
In a recent video by Nicole Kutenplon, the Ocean Genome Legacy Center co-op introduces us to her work as a Collections Assistant. Nicole, a 4th year Environmental Science student at Northeastern, utilized her experience as a curatorial assistant at a geological museum to accession over 1500 tissue samples from more than 30 species of Antarctic fish that are a part of Dr. William Detrich’s collection.
February 17, 2022
What COVID-19 can teach fish farmers
While most people are focused on the COVID-19 pandemic and the scope of its damage, one study on fish farms finds that the most harmful pandemic upon us is climate change.
January 13, 2022
Q&A with Greg Coppola, MS Environmental Science and Policy
Gregory Coppoola shares his NU experience at COS.
December 01, 2021
Experience Magazine: He spent months underwater. Now he wants to save the ocean.
Mark Patterson, marine scientist, aquanaut, and inventor of underwater robots, walked into San Diego Comic-Con dressed as a giant coral polyp. He was decked out entirely in orange, with ten fake tentacles dangling from his neck. Green and purple splotches on his shirt front represented microplastics pollution, lodged in his polyp-gut. This was 2015, and […]
November 17, 2021
College of Science Connects: The Plastics Problem
Hear from Professor Aron Stubbins and students to discuss the interactions between humans and the environment. Explore the global cycle of plastics, the processes that breakdown plastics in the environment, and the ecological and human health implications of plastics and their by-products. Discover new innovations that may be instrumental in finding solutions to […]
November 12, 2021
Q & A with Troy Langknecht, MS in Environmental Science and Policy
Q & A with Troy Langknecht, Environmental Science and Policy student.
November 08, 2021
These co-ops are taking part in creating the next model organism, one cephalopod at a time.
It’s not every day you get the chance to work with cephalopods. That, however, is not the case for Northeastern students Sarah Beecy and Sonia van Stekelenborg. Beecy, a third-year marine biology student, and van Stekelenborg, a third-year environmental science student, are currently on their first co-op as marine cephalopod aquarists at Marine Biological Laboratory (MBL) in Woods Hole, Massachusetts. The MBL is a […]
October 22, 2021