By Jim Fox, Director
Here at NEMAC, we’re currently working with the State of North Carolina on its Climate Risk Assessment and Resilience Plan. Even though this project kicked off a few months ago, it’s been over a decade in the making.
During that time, we’ve learned that handling long-term…
UNC Asheville’s NEMAC has existed for 15 years now—cue the confetti—and if there’s one thing we’ve learned, it’s that we couldn’t have made it this far without our robust internship program. We’ve employed well over 100 students in our time on UNC Asheville’s campus, and the majority of our current…
By Santiago Bonilla, Marketing and Design Intern
As my time here in college comes closer and closer to its end, I’ve had to sit down and really take a look around. I asked myself, “What do I want to come out of this whole college experience?” …
By Kim Rhodes, GIS Associate
The year was 2015. The place was the University of North Carolina at Asheville. I was finishing up my junior year of college, when a professor approached me about a research opportunity. I’m told, “You should work with NEMAC here on campus—they’re a fantastic resource…
By Metis Meloche, Regional GIS Intern
My dad lives in a bungalow by the coast, deep in a flood zone in Norfolk, Virginia. My map showed the likelihood of my dad’s bungalow being inundated with flood waters due to sea level rise. …
by Anitra Griffin, Web Development Intern
My job over the summer was as a web tool development intern with NEMAC, working on a tool for the National Fish and Wildlife Foundation. Many people come to internships with goals and ideas of things they want to do and learn, but not…
By Karin Rogers, Director of Operations
Our climate is changing before our eyes, and many of us see — even experience — the weather extremes it’s bringing first-hand. Think Hurricanes Sandy and Harvey, wildfires in California and the Pacific Northwest and Alaska, riverine flooding in the Midwest. …
By Jim Fox, Director
When we started NEMAC over 12 years ago, we asked ourselves, “What data about climate and environmental issues are end users interested in, and how can we provide it in easy-to-access formats?” Our end users told us that the data we provide — no matter the…
