News Archive

UH Coastal Center Takes to the Air in Effort to Restore Coastal Prairie
December 22, 2022

UH College of Natural Sciences and Mathematics

Center targets invasive tallow trees with aerial spraying. Read Aricle >

Controlled Burn Promotes Biodiversity at UH Coastal Center
March 25, 2020

UH College of Natural Sciences and Mathematics

UH staff, community volunteers and firefighters benefit from collaboration, burning nearly 100 acres of coastal prairie land. Read Aricle >

Above-Below Ground: Plant-Herbivore Interactions
February 19, 2019

UH College of Natural Sciences and Mathematics

Texas Ecolab grant supports Ph.D. student Hannah Locke’s research. Read Aricle >

How Will Climate Change Affect Plants, Soil Microbes?
September 5, 2018

UH College of Natural Sciences and Mathematics, Department of Biology and Biochemistry

NSF-funded project could help scientists, land managers prepare for the future. Read Aricle >

Prairie Ecology: The Role of Micronutrients
October 6, 2017

UH College of Natural Sciences and Mathematics

Assessing response of herbivores, such as grasshoppers, to micronutrient levels. Read Aricle >

UH Environmental Research Gets a Boost with New Designation
June 29, 2017

UH College of Natural Sciences and Mathematics

Projects include grassland ecology, Houston-area climate, geophysics. Read Aricle >

Restoring Sand Dunes, One Microbe at a Time
September 21, 2016

UH College of Natural Sciences and Mathematics

UH ecologist works to keep plant life healthy on restored dunes. Read Aricle >

Going Coastal
Spring 2015

University of Houston Magazine

Once the site of a WWII base, the UH Coastal Center serves as a special research facility and one of the country’s key prairie grass preserves. Read Aricle >

Wang Receives NSF Grant to Develop GPS and LIDAR Education at UH
September 18, 2013

UH College of Natural Sciences and Mathematics, Department of Earth and Atmospheric Sciences

Project will add upper-level applications course and augment field methods course. Read Aricle >