CEP’s Morehead City Field Site to open with Oct. 11 reception

By JESSICA FACTOR
Carolina Environmental Program

CHAPEL HILL -- The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill’s Carolina Environmental Program will celebrate the opening of its Morehead City Field Site with an Oct. 11 reception, at which one of the nation’s leading experts on marine ecosystems will speak.

Dr. Thomas C. Malone, director of the Horn Point Laboratory at the University of Maryland Center for Environmental Science, will speak at the 2 p.m. reception, to be held on the lawn at UNC’s Institute of Marine Sciences in Morehead City. The event is free to the public; refreshments will be served.

The Morehead City Field Site, housed in the Institute for Marine Sciences, will offer undergraduate students opportunities for learning environmental science and studies, with emphasis on microbial and phytoplankton ecology, water quality and resources, coastal geology, and other marine, coastal and near-coastal issues.

Other Carolina Environmental Program field sites are located in Cambridge, England; Bangkok, Thailand; Manteo, N.C.; and Highlands, N.C.

Malone, also a professor at the University of Maryland Center for Environmental Science, is chairman of the Coastal Oceans Observations Panel. He was president of the American Society for Limnology and Oceanography, one of the leading international associations for research on lakes, rivers, ground water, estuaries and oceans.

Malone has served numerous other environmental organizations, including the National Association of Marine Laboratories executive board (1995-1999).

The Carolina Environmental Program, founded in 1998, is a campuswide interdisciplinary initiative focusing on environmental learning, research and public service. The program offers, in cooperation with UNC’s College of Arts and Sciences, a bachelor of arts degree in environmental studies, a bachelor of science degree in environmental science and master’s and doctoral degrees in ecology.

For more information about the reception, call (919) 966-9922.

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Carolina Environmental Program: Tony Reevy, (919) 966-9927
News Services contact: Deb Saine, deborah_saine@unc.edu or (919) 962-8415.