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May 11, 2018

Barrow Receives Award for Excellence

Danielle Costantini Contact: Katie Mosher, 919-515-9069, kmosher@ncsu.edu
 Featured Photo by Sasha Campbell Mary Beth Barrow received an Award for Excellence from NC State University’s Office of Research, Innovation and Economic Development. Mary Beth Barrow, fiscal officer for North Carolina Sea Grant and the state’s Water Resources Research Institute, recently received an Award for Excellence from…

Apr 30, 2018

Frank Lopez Leads NC Sea Grant/WRRI Extension

April 27, 2018 | Marisa Incremona Featured Photo is of Sea Grant and WRRI extension director Frank Lopez. Photo by Julie Leibach. FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Contact: Katie Mosher, kmosher@ncsu.edu, 919-515-9069 Frank Lopez is the new extension director for North Carolina Sea Grant and the state’s Water Resources Research Institute. “We are thrilled to have Frank…

Aug 15, 2017

WRRI and NC Sea Grant Name Five Graduate Fellows

Contact: Katie Mosher, North Carolina Sea Grant, 919-515-9069, katie_mosher@ncsu.eduNicole Wilkinson, Water Resources Research Institute, 919-513-1216, nicole_wilkinson@ncsu.edu Five graduate students are starting new research projects that explore current water resources and coastal issues in North Carolina. These fellowships are funded by North Carolina Sea Grant and the Water Resources Research Institute of the University of North Carolina system. The competitive funding opportunity…

Oct 21, 2016

Why and How to Better Understand Nonresidential Water Customers

This is a summary of the WRRI Report #454 by Jeff Hughes, of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill (full report here). The research was jointly funded by the Environmental Finance Center at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Valor Water Analytics, and four utilities in North Carolina: the Orange Water…

Aug 20, 2015

WRRI Engages with Network to Promote Interdisciplinary Water Research

The 2015 WRRI annual conference featured a participatory session entitled “Prob­lems to Solutions: Linking Research to Stakeholders’ Needs Through a Research Network on Water Solutions (ReNeWS).” In the session moderated by Laura Taylor of NC State University’s Center for Environmental and Resource Economic Policy, panelists and audience members worked to identify collabora­tions that can address pressing water resource issues in North Carolina.

Aug 20, 2015

NC WRRI’s new website showcases Institute contributions to the state

To enhance the NC Water Resources Research Institute’s service to our state and following suit with campus-wide rebranding efforts at NC State University, WRRI has launched its new website. The new site facilitates the overall mission of WRRI to make water science readily available to end users and highlights the value of the program to…

Aug 8, 2015

WRRI, Stormwater Group and NSF funding lead to new insights into aquatic insects that have significant implications for managing NC’s freshwater streams

Freshwater ecosystems support a disproportionate percentage of Earth’s biodiversity and are among the most threatened by human activities. North Carolina’s freshwater streams are no exception, and the quality of these streams and the health of the aquatic insects that inhabit them are used by resource agencies and local governments to assess the efficacy of environmental…

Aug 1, 2015

John Dorney speaks at next NCWRA forum on changing definitions of Waters of the US

On June 29, 2015, the US EPA and COE published the final rule for the modified definition of Waters of the US in the Federal Register which will become effective on August 28, 2015 (Federal Register 80(124): 37054-37127). We have conducted an in-depth review of the rule to determine its implications in North Carolina specifically…

Jul 15, 2015

WRRI Turns 50

In 1964, eight years before passage of the Clean Water Act, the federal government authorized a unique piece of legislation in response to concerns over water availability and quality. The Water Resources Research Act called for the creation of local centers of water research that would “enlist the intellectual power of universities and research institutes in…