Sarah Schmitt’s Geography Ph.D. research in the Galapagos is funded by the Geological Society of America and the National Science Foundation Graduate Research Fellowship Program. Now it’s time to add National Geographic to the list. Schmitt has received a National Geographic … Read more
Ph.D. student Madelyn Percy has been awarded a grant from the NSF Critical Zone Observatory (CZO) Science Across Virtual Institutes (SAVI) Program for her promising work in the Galapagos. That’s an eight-letter acronym – so, what exactly is the CZO-SAVI Program? … Read more
The Geological Society of America has awarded student research grants for work in the Galapagos to UNC Ph.D. students Sarah Schmitt and Madelyn Percy. Schmitt, a first-year graduate student in Geography, will conduct research on “Understanding Spatial and Temporal Patterns … Read more
Kelly Houck, a graduate associate of the Center for Galapagos Studies, was awarded the First Place in the Emerging Leader in Nutritional Immunology Competition by the American Society for Nutrition at the 2015 Experimental Biology Conference. Her presentation on Effects of … Read more
Madelyn Percy, a Ph.D. student in Geological Sciences at UNC, was awarded a three-year National Science Foundation Graduate Research Fellowship to conduct her research in the Galapagos Islands. To whom else has the NSF offered this prestigious fellowship? For starters, … Read more
The joint UNC-USFQ Galapagos Science Center located in San Cristobal, Galapagos, has installed a set of photovoltaic solar panels for electricity generation. These panels are being used to supply part of the electricity needs of the research center. Due to … Read more
From in September 2014, a multinational team of marine biologists, veterinary health professionals, and Parque Nacional Galápagos (PNG – Galapagos National Park) wildlife officers conducted thorough health assessments of three endemic species on five different islands in the Galápagos archipelago. … Read more
UNC Anthrooplogy PhD candidate and graduate associate in the Center for Galapagos Studies, Kelly Houck, has received a Doctoral Dissertation Research Improvement grant to support her research in the Galapagos. Houck is a biological anthropologist specializing in human biology. Her work focuses … Read more
William Gerhard, a senior UNC Biology major, has been awarded the inaugural Mingma Norbu Sherpa Fellowship. Gerhard worked on water quality research at the Galapagos Science Center for the last two summers with faculty mentor Dr. Jill Stewart, and will continue his research … Read more
