water quality

Apr 25, 2023

New tools capture economic benefit of restoring urban streams

CCEE Associate Professor Daniel Obenour, Teaching Assistant Professor Jonathan Miller, and an interdisciplinary team of researchers have developed a suite of tools to estimate the total economic value of improving… 

Oct 5, 2022

CCEE’s Dr. Jacqueline MacDonald Gibson featured in Daily Tar Heel story

CCEE Department Head Dr. Jacqueline MacDonald Gibson was recently featured in a story by the Daily Tar Heel about detected lead levels in water sources on UNC Chapel Hill’s campus.… 

Jun 7, 2022

CCEE’s Dr. Detlef Knappe’s research on Cape Fear River contamination highlighted in WRAL

CCEE professor Dr. Detlef Knappe’s work discovering and tracing GenX, a man-made chemical compound, and other per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances (PFAS) compounds in eastern North Carolina’s Cape Fear River was… 

May 27, 2022

Ph.D. student wins paper competition at AWRA Geospatial Water Technology Conference

Ph.D. student Kimia Karimi, advised by CCEE’s Dr. Dan Obenour, won first place in the 2022 American Water Resources Association (AWRA) Geospatial Water Technology Conference Paper Competition in early May for… 

Mar 1, 2021

CCEE Researchers create tools to protect our water quality

With support from the NC Policy Collaboratory and Water Resources Research Institute, a team of CCEE researchers is involved in a multi-year study to help clean up the Falls and…