Southern Appalachian Environmental Research and Education Center

SAEREC Projects and Programs

Surveillance For Blacklegged Ticks And Lyme Disease In Mecklenburg, Clay, Cherokee, Graham, and Swain Counties, North Carolina

NCDHHS Department of Health and Human Services

Dynamics of Earth Systems, Ecosystems, and Natural Resource Conservation

Blacklegged Tick (Ixodes scapularis) Density And Rate of Infection With Lyme Disease Bacteria (Borrelia burgdorferri)

NC DHHS

Blacklegged Tick Density And Rate of Infection With Lyme Disease Bacteria in the NC Blue Ridge and Piedmont

NCDHHS

CEREUS Appaoach to Assessing Ecological Responses to Global Change in the Southern Appalachians

NSF

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The Southern Appalachian Environmental Research and Education Center (SAEREC) will promote interdisciplinary environmental research and educational outreach in the southern Appalachian region. Through these efforts SAEREC will contribute to an increased understanding of the critical challenges facing natural ecosystems in this region due to human activities.

Steve Seagle

Director of SAEREC
Professor

SAEREC Researchers and Staff

Caitlin Manely

Program Specialist

Zack Murrell

Professor

Howie Neufeld

Professor

Grace Marasco-Plummer

Managing Director

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