Research News
October 17, 2018
Safeguarding Storage for Nuclear Waste
New international research project aims to keep nuclear waste isolated, 10,000 years into the future
August 28, 2018
All That Is Gold Is Not Biochemically Stable
Researchers stumble upon the lesson that typically stable gold nanoparticles can’t always be trusted
August 23, 2018
Nathaniel Chaney: Harnessing Petabytes to Better Understand the Global Water Cycle
New faculty member Nathaniel Chaney studies how the geological and manmade features over land influence the global water cycle and as a result, impact weather, water resources and agriculture
May 23, 2018
Risky Business
Mark Borsuk brings expertise in assessing and mitigating risk to Duke Engineering and the university at large
May 18, 2018
Predicting Weather with Big Data
Ana Barros talks about working with big data in environmental fields before the term even existed and how her work has evolved over the years
April 19, 2018
Spring Break 2018: Environmental Research at Duke Kunshan University
Duke students spent their spring break in China experimenting with methods of measuring air and water quality
April 11, 2018
Hope Floats
At the sandy edge of Raleigh’s Lake Crabtree, a pack of purple-clad Clemson students splashed through the chilly water toward their team’s canoe, cheering and clapping as they helped their exhausted-looking teammates come ashore. A few yards away, members of the University of Georgia team rolled up [...]
March 20, 2018
What's in the Water?
Ph.D. student William Gerhard studies the organisms in large ships' ballast tanks
March 05, 2018
New Program Opens Door for Durham-Based Faculty to Spend a Semester at the Marine Lab
New program supported by the Provost's Office aims to promote greater engagement between the two campuses
December 18, 2017
Using Good Governance to Mitigate Natural Disasters
Policy, not technology, can reduce the impact of climate-change-intensified disasters