University of Delaware College of Earth, Ocean and Environment

09/09/2026

The “Crowdsourcing Conservation” initiative gives Delaware high school teachers UD-backed resources to promote environmental engagement and active participation in the research process, including helpful materials and resources from the Center for Environmental Monitoring and Analysis and Delaware Sea Grant.

UD initiative inspires environmental lessons to take high schoolers beyond the classroom

09/04/2026

A group of faculty, staff, and students from UD, Texas A&M University, University of Georgia and Mississippi State University are traveling to the edge of the continental shelf to investigate methane seeps off the Mid-Atlantic Coast.

Pictured here: UD graduate student Kira Zautcke, who stepped aboard the DSV (deep-submergence vehicle) Alvin for the first time!

Interested in following along with the cruise? Track their journey here: https://storymaps.arcgis.com/stories/5ddf939a7b264b9ab93fb2ec7bbb32b3

09/02/2026

Attention, students! Looking for internship opportunities? Join the Sept. 30 internship symposium to connect informally with peer representatives to learn more about their recent internship experiences, application strategies, and key professional takeaways.

This drop-in event invites students to connect informally with peer representatives to learn more about their recent internship experiences, application strategies, and key professional takeaways.

08/31/2026

You've probably seen the R/V Sharp before...but have you ever seen it in 360?

08/26/2026

Several days a week, University of Delaware senior Seth Buchanan collects mud snails from three Delaware locations — Cape Henlopen beach, the Great Marsh and Slaughter Beach — as part of his undergraduate summer research. He wants to know how prevalent Eastern mud snails are in these locations and whether they are carrying parasites.

“Mud snails are considered an intermediate species,” says Buchanan, a marine biology major. “This means they get infected with parasites sooner than something larger like a fish or a bird. They don’t move fast, making them easier to collect and examine to learn about the overall health of the ecosystem.”

Read the full story here: https://www.udel.edu/udaily/2026/august/undergraduate-summer-research-mud-snails-serve-coastal-ecosystem/

08/24/2026

Welcome back, ! As the 2026 Fall semester gets underway, we wish you the best in your studies, research and experiential adventures⁠...and eagerly await campus to start looking more like autumn!

08/21/2026

The fall semester is right around the corner, but members of the Hale Laboratory are still hard at work trying to get the last acoustic tags out for ! Pictured here: Brendan Campbell, Rileigh Hudock, Jenna Young and Dan Millea.

08/19/2026

A new study from the University of Delaware’s Kyle Davis quantified global patterns of rain-fed and irrigated crop-specific drought sensitivity and drought-associated production losses for 17 major crops, including rice, corn, wheat, and soybeans.

“If you have a crop that tends to be more sensitive to changes in temperature and precipitation, and its production is concentrated in a particular place, then that crop will dominate what you see in terms of overall drought sensitivity,” says Davis.

UD's Kyle Davis helps develop a framework to assess the resilience and sensitivity of crops to drought

08/17/2026

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08/14/2026

Dr. Aaron Carlisle joins Good Morning America to discuss efforts by UD researchers to outfit sharks with sensors to learn more about hurricanes.

As the great white shark population grows off the East coast, scien...