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“Mountains to Sea” Fellows Study Climate Change, Coastal Flooding, and More

Ecosystems

image: Madeline Payne.

Feb 17, 2025

NC Sea Grant and APNEP Name New Joint Fellow

Madeline Payne, a Ph.D. student in the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill’s Environment, Ecology, and Energy Program, is the recipient of the 2025 joint fellowship from North Carolina Sea Grant and the Albemarle-Pamlico National Estuary Partnership. Payne will investigate how changing coastal landscapes affect seagrasses’ role in aquatic ecosystems.
image: broken road, Hendersonville area in North Carolina.

Oct 17, 2024

Coastwatch Covers Hurricane Helene’s Record-Breaking Strength

The Fall 2024 issue of North Carolina Sea Grant’s award-winning Coastwatch magazine explores the catastrophic power of Hurricane Helene. The print edition of the Fall issue was already at press when Helene devastated western North Carolina, but the NC State Climate Office’s Corey Davis provides context for the record-breaker in his special online-only feature about the hurricane’s strength...
image: Greyson Webb, Reef Fish Fellow.

Oct 2, 2024

Sea Grant Welcomes New Reef Fisheries Fellow

Greyson Webb is the new South Atlantic Reef Fish Extension and Communication Fellow.
image: water.

Sep 2, 2024

Announcing Our 2024 CCRG Grant Recipients

Five new projects have received funding from the Community Collaborative Research Grant Program (CCRG). North Carolina Sea Grant and NC Water Resources Research Institute (WRRI) administer the CCRG Program in…
image: sunset at Lake Santeetlah in Great Smoky Mountains.

May 13, 2024

“Mountains to Sea” Fellows Study Climate Change, Coastal Flooding, and More

North Carolina Sea Grant, the North Carolina Water Resources Research Institute, and the Urban Water Consortium have selected new “Mountains to Sea” research fellows who are focusing on coastal and freshwater resources across the state.