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Environmental
Dynamics Lab

Led by Sabin Center Board Member Lauren Lowman, the Environmental Dynamics Lab explores how spatial and temporal changes in water availability impact overall ecosystem health, productivity, and sustainability. The Lab’s analysis incorporates engineering, physics, biology, chemistry, hydrology, and ecology, employing Computational Modeling, Geospatial Analysis, and Field Experiments featuring both ground-based and aerial measurements to further their understanding. The Lab is currently studying the interplay between fire conditions and ecosystem health in the Southeast.

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Using satellite imagery to detect and quantitatively evaluate changes in hydrology, geomorphology and vegetative states toward understanding the physical drivers of these changes.
NDCEQ 2020 Integrated Report Map (https://ncdenr.maps.arcgis.com/apps/webappviewer). All water bodies shown in red are listed as Category 5 waters on the 303(d) list and require a TMDL, designating limits on pollutant sources to return water bodies to a condition where beneficial uses can be sustained. 

The Di Vittorio Lab

Led by Faculty Affiliate Courtney Di Vittorio, The Di Vittorio Lab develops satellite-based data products, hydrologic modeling, and decision support tools, studying areas from the American Southeast to the Sudd wetlands. Dr. Di Vittorio and her team are currently developing satellite-based water quality algorithms for High Rock Lake, North Carolina, augmenting more expensive in-situ water collection with satellite-based estimates of water quality for more comprehensive and data-driven water quality improvement plans.

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When Working Lands Meet the Wild: Living with Wolves from Yellowstone to the Outer Banks

View the discussion of Dr. Liz Rutledge of the NC Wildlife Federation and Brian Yablonski, CEO of PERC (Property Environment Research Center talking about the unique dynamics that play out when humans and protected wildlife have to coexist.

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