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Coastwatch Publishes the Winter 2025 Issue

Coastwatch

image: plastic debris.

Jul 24, 2025

PET Predators

Chemical and biomolecular engineer Nathan Crook and student Tianyu Li at NC State are developing a microorganism that can break down and absorb plastic waste.

Jul 21, 2025

Coastwatch Covers a PFAS Solution, Blue Crab Projections, Bonnethead Shark Migration, and More

The Summer 2025 issue of Coastwatch magazine explores a deeper-well solution to PFAS in drinking water, investigates what happens when microbes break down microplastics, studies whether blue crabs will go extinct, looks at why bonnethead sharks are on the move, and much more.

Jul 16, 2025

PFAS, Arsenic, and Trade-Offs

Research from Tiffany J. VanDerwerker, former fellow for the North Carolina Water Resources Research Institute, and her NC State University colleagues Detlef R. U. Knappe and David P. Genereux reveals the bedrock aquifer may provide residents in counties along the Cape Fear River with safer drinking water.

image: Diamondback Terrapin (Malaclemys terrapin).

Apr 10, 2025

North Carolina Sea Grant Publishes the Spring 2025 Issue of Coastwatch

Coastwatch magazine, the flagship publication from North Carolina Sea Grant, has just released the Spring 2025 issue. 
image: teacher hoisted onto frying Pan Tower.

Feb 25, 2025

Coastwatch Publishes the Winter 2025 Issue

The Winter 2025 issue of North Carolina Sea Grant’s award-winning Coastwatch magazine covers a new threat to the oyster industry, an innovative project that took teachers out to Frying Pan Tower, how volunteers helped responders find survivors after Hurricane Helene, and much more.